Start Your Business
At TEDCO we successfully deliver a range of start-up support programmes designed to take ideas and turn them into successful enterprises.
View the range of start-up support programmes we offer:
Enterprising Durham
Do you want to know how to set up your own business in Durham? Have you got a great business idea and want to develop it? Have you already started your business but need help growing it? Or are you looking for help with building your next venture?
Whatever stage your business is at, Durham Start-ups will help you find the information you need.
Funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Find out more about Enterprising Durham
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Enterprising North
If you are based in the Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, North Tyneside or Gateshead, this programme is for you!
Enterprising North is an exciting new programme, designed to support individuals looking to start their own business or are in the early stages of trading.
The programme is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and brings together business support providers from across the region to provide expert advice, guidance and exciting opportunities to help turn your business idea or early-stage venture into a reality.
Find out more about Enterprising North
Register for Enterprising North now
Start Up South Tyneside
South Tyneside Council’s business start up service offers residents a chance to explore self employment through access to free resources.
Start Up South Tyneside is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. TEDCO Business Support LTD delivers the programme on behalf of South Tyneside Council.
Find out more about Start Up South Tyneside
Register now for Start Up South Tyneside
Digital Track Programme – North of Tyne
Digital Track is a North of Tyne Combined Authority funded programme that helps business owners to introduce products or services, and/or create jobs. Delivered right across Northumberland, Newcastle and North Tyneside, the programme is already incredibly popular with ambitious entrepreneurs.
Start-up Resources
HMRC know that most Small & Medium Enterprises want to get things right but may need help to do so. We particularly want to help customers as they face key business life events, including starting in business, taking on an employee, registering for VAT, importing/ exporting and incorporation. To aid this our Partner Service offers:
HMRC Webinars
These are tailored online presentations for your members that can be run weekly/ monthly/ quarterly, depending on the numbers attending, as part of a regular programme or as ‘pick and mix days’, if you’re running an event over a day. You can choose the subject(s) from an extensive menu of options and, as they’re live, you can interact with HMRC and ask questions.
Regular and varied communications from HMRC
• Key Messages which feature important and widespread information from across HMRC.
• Information emails, these link to help and support for a particular or timely theme, for example Self Assessment or the Budget, or to new or topical services and products.
HMRC Start Up Resources
- E-learning packages for self- employed customers and employers. Starting your own business for the self-employed covers all aspects of starting and growing a business. Becoming an employer deals with taking on and paying employees. Thousands of businesses have already used these and found they’re a great way of learning.
- A range of webinars. These enable customers to attend a seminar at a time to suit them. We have both live and pre-recorded webinars covering a range of topics. Customer feedback tells us that these are a good way to get started.
- A selection of short videos on YouTube covering subjects such as Registering as Self-Employed, PAYE, Record Keeping and Construction Industry. These are a really useful way to get a quick overview on various subjects.
- Business help and education emails is a free service to provide customers with emails from HMRC that are tailored to their needs. They are designed to help customers understand what they need to do and how to get it right first time.
- Record keeping for mobile devices will enable customers to access apps to help make life a little easier for busy people on the go. A ready reckoner is also available to help customers budget for their first tax bill and our tax help fact sheets are a good source of straightforward guidance that customers can download from our website.
- @HMRC Business Help is a Twitter account designed to provide help to business. We tweet about our educational products, upcoming tax matters and online guidance. Followers can also ask us general queries via twitter, but we cannot discuss any individual’s specific tax issues.
- Business Support Tax App allows access to all the above via your tablet or mobile device: on Apple i-store or Google play
HM Revenue & Customs – HMRC e-learning courses
Starting your own business? Got a lot of questions about tax, National Insurance, business records and expenses? If so, these HMRC e-learning courses are for you.
How long does it take?
It’s entirely up to you. You can work through the learning at your own pace and at a time that suits you. You don’t need to do it all in one go, you can dip in and out as you need it and even come back to it at a later date.
• Starting Your Own Business – on the HMRC website
• Tax Advice for Driving Instructors (DIA) – on the HMRC website
• Tax Advice for the Construction Industry – on the HMRC website
• Tax Advice for Childminders – on the HMRC website
• Tax for Foster Carers – on the HMRC website
• Tax for Shared Lives Carers – on the HMRC website
• Exporting Goods (UKTI) – on the HMRC website
• Trading with other EU Countries (UKTI) – on the HMRC website
Watch HMRC tax information videos on YouTube
You will find lots of ‘bite-sized’ tax information videos on HMRC’s YouTube pages. If you need reassurance, quick help or are just interested in finding out more about a subject like statutory payments then this may be the option for you.
Online seminars for businesses and the self-employed
Webinars are free online presentations that enable you to attend a seminar without leaving your desk. HMRC offers a wide variety of live and pre-recorded webinars on subjects such as business expenses for the self-employed, operating PAYE in real time, statutory sick pay, VAT awareness and many more.
Find out more about HMRC webinars – Online seminars for businesses and the self-employed
Our Services
Start
At TEDCO we successfully deliver a range of start-up support programmes designed to take ideas and turn them into successful enterprises and business start-ups in the region.
Grow
A key objective of TEDCO’s is to provide individuals and businesses with the ambition to expand. Along with the advice and necessary tools to scale-up and grow their business.
Fund
Funding a new business is often the most difficult part. Ask us about the ways you can finance your enterprise. We've helped thousands of others to do this over the last ten years.