http://fs4b.wales.gov.uk

February 2010 will see the launch of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Flexible Support for Business (FS4B) Supersite which will provide Wales’s businesses with an unprecedented level of tailored online information and support. (The Site will supersede the current FS4B website and be provided at the same web address).

Independent research undertaken on a UK basis suggests that the Supersite should provide around £70m benefit to Wales’s businesses every year.

The FS4B Supersite is designed to be integrated with the Assembly Government’s other business support services to enable businesses and citizens to move as smoothly as possible between online and offline support.

The Site will also provide a raft of guidance, tools and directories which professional advisors, relationship managers and customer service staff can use to enhance the support they offer to their clients.

The FS4B Supersite’s primary customers will, of course, be existing businesses or individuals looking to start up in business. The reasons for these customers using the Site are compelling:

* The Supersite will provide on line information, advice and services from the Assembly Government (e.g. access to investment funding), UK Government (e.g. doing VAT online) and local government (e.g. applying for licences) all in one place.

* This Site will provide access to hundreds of free start up events, free information and advice for small businesses, and access to investment and specialist support for larger companies.

* The Site’s guides, tools and transactional services will make it easier for businesses to deal with government i.e. be able to find out what they must do, help them to do it, and give them confidence that they have done it correctly.

* The Site will provide a vast range of content in areas such as business planning, employment related matters, health and safety at work, and sale and trade in goods, to name but a few.

* UK Government content will have been adapted for Wales’s businesses, and all Assembly Government content, and an increasing amount of UK Government content, will be available in Welsh.

The Site will be designed, planned and run by the Assembly Government (in collaboration with UK Government) and be based on a sound understanding of customer requirements, achieved through extensive user research.

PLEASE NOTE:

Reading the story above, you will note that its a larger version of what Gratis Guidance has been trying to do over the past 4 years!
To avoid duplicating effort, we will be updating less on this website and putting the information on the new supersite.

With almost 5000 pages of information on Gratis Guidance, we will still be updating it with little bits of local information or quirky pieces we have found interesting.

Our Twitter account will still be active and pointing at all the more interesting business related data we find – if you are not using it yet – just press the Follow Us picture on the top right of this page!

If you are looking for business support and you are based in Flintshire, ring the Business Development Team at Greenfield on 01352 703042