Concept for Business Link
Business listing directory, Business link directory is a government-funded business advice and guidance service in England. It consists of an online portal managed by HMRC, local/regional advisors (under the auspices of BIS) and a national helpline.
The concept for Business Link was established in December 1992 by Michael Heseltine, then President of the Board of Trade, when he was in charge of the DTI. At pilot stage, these were called One Stop Shop. Initially, there were plans to open 54 Business Links, but by the end of 1993, a year in which the government spent some £3m on the programmer, only three branches of the service had been formed. The first opened in Leicester on 27 September 1993, with others following in Birmingham and Congleton.
While Chambers of Commerce (also known as Boards of Trade) had long promoted co-operation and social interaction among local companies, the new services offered by Business Link included business support and education, and in some areas the possibility of government funding. There was some overlap, with Chambers of Commerce also running local Business Links.
Five years after the launch of the Business listing directory, Business link directory had been established, and each week some 10,000 businesses in England were using the service. The service employed about 650 personal business advisers, who worked mainly with businesses that employed between 10 and 200 people.
Early business support in Scotland was called Scottish Business Shop. In Wales, the name was Business Connect, and in Northern Ireland, it was called Local Enterprise Development Unit.
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