Finding the help you need in your area...

A: Here's details of all the local places who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

Derbyshire Enterprise Agency - Providing advice, mentoring, workshops and training, managed office space
Derbyshire Enterprise Agency Business Unit The Brian Clough Business Centre 200-222 Cotton Lane Derby DE24 8GJ Tel. 01332 268600
Derbyshire Enterprise Agency website

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce (DNCC) - Membership organisation offering a wide range of support
Chesterfield (head office) - Commerce Centre Canal Wharf Chesterfield S41 7NA Tel 0844 443 2150
Bakewell - Agricultural Business Centre Agricultural Way Bakewell DE45 1AH
Bolsover - Unit 5 Cavendish Walk Bolsover S44 6DB Tel 01246 828781
Derby - Commerce House 2 Victoria Way Pride Park Derby DE24 8AN Tel 01332 851 280
Glossop - Bradbury Community House Market Street Glossop SK13 8AR Tel 01457 857708
Swadlincote - George Holmes Business Centre George Holmes Way Swadlincote DE11 9DF Tel 01283 551 324
DNCC website

Erewash Partnership - Covering Ilkeston & Long Eaton, help with training and promoting your business
The Old Police Station Wharncliffe Road Ilkeston DE7 5GF Tel 0115 944 3944
Cotmanhay Enterprise Centre Cotmanhay Road Ilkeston DE7 8PF Tel 0115 932 8792
Erewash Partnership website 

A: Here's details of all the local places who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

Leicester African Caribbean Business Association (LACBA) - Business advice and support for the black community
Melbourne Centre Melbourne Road Leicester LE2 0GU Tel 0116 2511325
LACBA website

A: Here's details of all the local places who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

InBiz - Offers various enterprise support programmes
The New Avenue 26-30 Newland Lincoln LN1 1XG Tel: 01522 301 387
Inbiz website

The NE Group - Providing serviced office space, conference facilities, free training and business support
Boston Enterprise Centre Venture House Enterprise Way Endeavour Park Boston Lincs PE21 7TW Tel 01205 311645
The NE Group website

A: Here's details of all the local places who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

InBiz - Offers various enterprise support programmes
2 Saxon Court Freeschool Street Northampton NN1 1ST Tel: 01604 602 662
Inbiz website

A: Here's details of all the local places who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce (DNCC) - Membership organisation offering a wide range of support
Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Ashfield School Sutton Road Kirkby-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire NG17 8HP
Nottingham - Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber 8 Experian Way ng2 Business Park NG2 1EP Tel 0115 957 8757
Shirebrook - The Studio Healthy Living Centre 9 - 11 Patchwork Row Shirebrook NG20 8AL Tel 01623 746019
DNCC website

The NE Group - Providing serviced office space, conference facilities, free training and business support
Edwinstowe House Centre for Business Excellence Edwinstowe Nottinghamshire NG21 9PR Tel 01623 827900
The NE Group website

A: Here's details of places covering the whole East Midlands who may be able to assist you in starting your business:

Business Link East Midlands - Free Government help to start and run a business; training, workshops, business reviews
Head office: Innovation House Riverside Park Raynesway Derby DE21 7BF Tel 0845 058 6644
Business Link East Midlands website

EMIN - Free services include; ask the expert, access to business opportunity profiles, information library, grant finder & more
Incubation, Innovation and Enterprise Centres based in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire
EMIN website

Nottinghamshire Business Venture (NBV) -  Free & confidential business advice, now covering all counties in the East Midlands region
Head Office: Enterprise House Shipstones Business Centre Northgate New Basford Nottingham NG7 7FN Tel 0115 970 5550
NBV website


If your organisation helps people in the East Midlands to start a business and isn't on this list please contact us