A range of information and links with support and advice for businesses

Herts Industrial Strategy, business support and other information can be found here.

Information about The Herts Growth Hub and support for businesses can be found here. See their events listing page here.

The Herts Growth Hub's COVID-19 (Coronavirus) business resource webpage can be found here.

The STANTA Start Up resource centre has a wide range of information on the legal and practical things you need when starting up a business.

Find out more about STANTA here.

Hertfordshire Business School is one of the largest business schools in the UK. Find out how they can assist your business here.

A wide range of information and resources to help you start and grow your business.

Find out more about WENTA here.

Supporting start-ups and small businesses, identifying opportunities for growth and taking businesses to the next level. Find out more here.

For information for businesses, click here.

For information about courses for adults, click here.

Read about the FSB here.

Further information on all types of rate relief can be found here.

The Council uses the Supply Hertfordshire procurement portal for all tender opportunities. Find out more and apply here.

Learn how to protect your business here.

'Business in the Community' has distilled some of the Government's COVID19 support packages for small businesses into a checklist with tips on what's available and how to access them.

If your business can offer support to save and change lives during the COVID19 pandemic, visit the 'Business in the Community' National Business Response Network platform.   If you can offer professional support, lend/donate resources or logistics then here's your way to help the coronavirus response.

'Business in the Community' is offering support for SMEs needing help with business continuity or employee wellbeing; and community groups needing help with food, technology or social care due to coronavirus.    

Hertfordshire Growth Hub have launched their new Peer Networks initiative for small business leaders that want to grow and develop their organisation for future success.

The Peer Networks programme is a Hertfordshire Growth Hub service delivered by Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce, one of the 3 Hertfordshire Growth Hub Consortium Partners.

The newly launched programme creates diverse cohort groups of individuals to collaboratively work through common business issues. Through interactive action learning, this enables the discussion of challenges and provides valuable feedback to implement practical solutions to overcome them.

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are private sector led, public sector supported, partnerships. They aim to revitalise their communities by delivering projects and services into the public realm within the BID area. St Albans BID is a not for profit company operating within a defined geographical area in St Albans City centre. It aims to provide additional services to people who live and work in the City Centre. It is largely funded by a levy from approximately 500 businesses in its designated area that totals around £450,000 a year. For further information see www.stalbansbid.com and www.enjoystalbans.com

St Albans City of Expertise. Advice and information from professional service experts: legal, chartered engineering, chartered accountants, financial expertise/banking, planning and surveying. Find out more here.

Read about the St Albans District Chamber of Commerce here.

Members only workspace and coworking community for businesses and individuals.

Read about the Harpenden Collective here. 

Find out how the Businesses Community website can help you here.

Guidance and advice on food law can be found here.

Find information about the Gambling Commission Regulator here.

For information about the national regulator for health and safety matters, click here. 

The Trading Standards pages have information for businesses.

For more information about local trusted traders, click here.

Aims to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses, support growth and help regulators to better understand the challenges businesses face. Contact bbfa@hertfordshire.gov.uk or find out more here.

Strategy to reduce emissions from road vehicles and move towards zero emissions.

Read the strategy here.

Advice to help you navigate the risks and opportunities of climate change.

Read about The Carbon Trust here.

Offers small and medium-sized businesses in Hertfordshire grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 to cover up to a third of the cost of making energy improvements eg. LED lighting, heating, insulation, electric vehicles and more. The programme is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Find out more information here.

Leading the development of 3 million sq ft of new commercial space. Read more here.

St Albans City and District Council operates a sponsorship scheme for a select number of roundabouts, city entrance signs and flowerbeds throughout the district. The traffic flow rate at these sites is considerably high, making them strategic points for advertisement. Sponsorship enables organisations to promote their company via advertisement signs at these locations. Prices vary between £500 and £5000 per annum and the income generated helps maintain the district’s roundabouts and flowerbeds to a high standard.

Please see below for the locations at which sponsorship opportunities are available*:

*If the site at which you wish to advertise is currently already sponsored, please contact the Parks and Green Spaces Team to be added to a waiting list. Sponsorship contracts are reviewed annually in April.

St Albans District Council holds three major community events each year:

• The Alban Street Festival (Sunday 21 June 2020)
• St Albans Feastival (Sunday 27 September 2020)
• St Albans Christmas Cracker (Sunday 15 November 2020)

Attendance at our events continues to be strong, with each one attracting in excess of 16,000 visitors.

If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at our community events, please contact events@stalbans.gov.uk.