Useful Web Links
SHV Clients and Useful Contacts
Cultural Industries Development Service	The first stop for all sorts of assistance for those involved in cultural industries
Hodgkiss Design	Graphic design, marketing materials and corporate makeovers
RS-IT	PC and network installation and maintenance
Central Government and the public sector
www.number-10.gov.uk	Provides the latest information from Downing Street
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk	Latest news from the Cabinet Office
www.euro.gov.uk	The official UK Government site for information for business on the euro
www.e-envoy.gov.uk	Office of the e-Envoy
www.dti.gov.uk	DTI home page
www.tradepartners.gov.uk	Trade Partners UK is the Government network dedicated to building British business success overseas.
www.tradeuk.com	TradeUK - the Government's official database of UK exporters and export sales leads service
www.fsa.gov.uk	Financial Services Authority
www.dataprotection.gov.uk	Information on Data protection
www.ecgd.gov.uk	Exports Credits Guarantee Department
www.oftel.org.uk	OFTEL - the regulator of the UK telecoms industry
www.itforall.org.uk	IT for ALL - for IT beginners looking for a local centre to provide them with entry level experience to IT
www.ukishelp.co.uk	EU Information Society - information and advice for UK companies to bid for funding for EU digital content development programmes
www.dag-business.gov.uk	Direct Access Government
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk	Inland Revenue
www.hmce.gov.uk	Customs and Excise
www.companies-house.gov.uk	Companies House - to access info about registered UK companies
www.patent.gov.uk/search	Patent Office. Search of patents and trademarks.

Business Advice & Research
www.bizwise.co.uk	Online business advice.
www.clearlybusiness.com	Business portal from Barclays & Freeserve
www.enterprisenetwork.co.uk	Sunday Times Network
www.businesslink.co.uk	Business Link National Web Site - gateway to help and advice, including ICT & e-commerce support.
www.bbc.co.uk/webguide/	BBC's web guide
www.royalmail.com	Royal Mail site. Good site for all types of business advice.
www.ukonlineforbusiness.co.uk	DTI Business site, highly promoted.
www.enterprisezone.org.uk	The DTI supported gateway to business info on the Web - for everyone who is in business in the UK - from start ups to high growth firms
www.englandsnorthwest.com	Portal of Northwest Development Agency.
Search Engines & Portals
www.mirago.co.uk	Highly rated UK search engine with regional personalisation.
www.google.com	One of the biggest US based search engines/directories.
www.uk.overture.com	UK search engine with business directory.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk	Good local portal run by publishers of M.E.N
www.kellysearch.com	Kellys - Search engine for UK Industry
Business Directories
www.yell.co.uk	Yellow pages directory
www.askalix.co.uk	Growing UK directory
www.scoot.co.uk	UK Business directory
www.countyweb.co.uk	Regionalised directories.

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