Useful Links

For up-to-date links and resources, go to our sister website http://www.westmidlandswoman.co.uk/links

• The Art Directory
  
• Fair Finance
  FFC members operate throughout the West Midlands; a collaboration of independent Not for Profit financial services providers. All FFC members offer alternative business loans to new and existing organisations who, for whatever reason find that they are unable to secure the necessary investment from traditional sources, to turn their plans into reality.
  
• Diva-Biz
• Bare Foot Business.com
• Startquest
• NIACE
• The right path
• companexus
• SIIG
• Leave it to the Ladies
• Business Link: Assess the health of your business
• Jugglefrogs
• Prowess Survey: Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology
•   ACAS Advisory Service 

• British Chambers of Commerce 

• British Franchise Association 

• British Standards 

• British Tourist Authority 

• British Venture Capital Assoc 

• BT Directory Enquiries (FREE) 

• Business Bureau for UK SME’s 

• Business Link 

• Business Zone SME News 

• Cambridge-MIT 

• Cobweb Information & News 

• Companies House 

• Confederation of British Industry 

• Customs & Excise 

• Dept Education & Employment 

• Dept of Trade and Industry 

• Design Council 

• DTI/FCO for Exporters 

• Export Trade Directory 

• Factors & Discounters Assoc 

• Federation of Small Businesses 

• Financial Services Authority 

• Goosey Graphics 

• Government Grants Guide 

• H.M. Treasury 

• Health & Safety 

• Information Commissioner (Data Protection Act) 

• Inland Revenue 

• Innovation Unit 

• Insider Knowledge: the recipe for online success

• Learning Direct 

• LiveWire 

• MINTEL Market Research 

• National Business 2 Business Centre 

• Networking Women 

• NFEA – National Federation of Enterprise Agencies 

• Occupational pensions regulator 

• Office of National Statistics 

• Patent Office + Trade Marks 

• Prince’s Trust 

• Prowess 

• Resource Centre For Women 

• Royal Mail 

• Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs 

• Small Business service 

• StartupCommunity.co.uk 

• The Small Business Portal 

• Thomson Directories On-line 

• Trade UK Export & Exhibitions 

• Valuation Officers Rating Lists 

• Women At Work 

• Women in Rural Enterprise 

• Yellow Pages Directory
   
  

Search Engines

• Altavista 
  
  
• Ask Jeeves 
  
  
• Backflip (articles) 
  
  
• Excite UK edition 
  
  
• Go To (portal) 
  
  
• Google 
  
  
• Hotbot 
  
  
• Infind cross-engine 
  
  
• Ultraseek 
  
  
• Lycos 
  
  
• Metacrawler - multi 
  
  
• Metadog (web names) 
  
  
• Northern Light - multi 
  
  
• One Seek 
  
  
• Scoot 
  
  
• UK Plus 
  
  
• WCC StartQuest 
  
  
• Web Crawler 
  
  
• Who Is (web names) 
  
  
• Yahoo 
  
  
• Yell