Business

Local support for businesses and town centres

• Information on towns and villages and their traders' organisations
• Funding for town centre initiatives
• Richmond Retail and Business Alliance

Funding sources

• Could your business use some extra funds?
• Search for funding for social enterprise, voluntary and community organisations

Invest in Richmond upon Thames

• Invest is a new resource for businesses looking to start-up, grow in or relocate to Richmond upon Thames.

Council services

• Business continuity - emergency planning
• Business Directory
• Business Rates
• Business support and advice
• Business Travel
• Business and street trading licenses
• Commercial Environmental Health
• Commercial Recycling and Waste
• Conference facilities
• Food safety
• Food hygiene ratings ('Scores on the Doors')
• Green business
• Planning applications - business
• Procurement - doing business with the Council
• Local Economic Assessment
• Locating your business
• London 2012 - the Olympic Games and business
• Skip hire and licensing
• Trading standards

Advice and resources

• Business Link
• Business planning tool (COBRA)
• Competefor - match buyers with suppliers
• Enterprise Nation - for businesses starting or growing from home
• Finding a premises (South London Business Property Database)
• Richmond upon Thames Chamber of Commerce - support, networking and advocacy for the borough's business community
• Starting a home-based business - advice from Business Link
• Starting a new business (southlondon.biz website)
• Start Up Britain - essential advice and resources for those thinking of starting or growing a business

Business survey results

Thank you to all of the local businesses that completed the council’s ‘All in One’ business survey. Respondents - mainly small, owner-managed businesses reflecting a key characteristic of the borough’s economy - provided a wealth of information to inform the council’s work in coming months. Find out more.