Becoming Self Employed - What are the practicalities of what you need to know & do

This is a workshop that will give you the practical information on how to set up being self employed.

Who is this workshop for?

People that have decided to become self employed but have never done this before or for someone new to being self employed in the UK

What will we cover?

• Progress – How far have you got so far?

• Hopes & fears

• how to register as self employed

• Simple Book keeping – what records do you need to keep?

• how does this affect benefits if you are on these?

• understanding taxation

• legalities relating to trading activities

• Setting a budget, income & expenditure. Why is it important & some simple steps in doing it.

• Taking money from customers, invoicing, POS, tills, money

Who is running this workshop?

My name is Emma Torrance and I run THiNK . I am a SFEDI qualified Business Adviser with over 17 years experience providing business advice to freelancers, small businesses and social enterprises including The Big House, Nottingham Trent University. I was resources Director for Social Enterprise East midlands, managing contracts, people, European funded programmes.

I now own and run ThiNK in NG meeting room in Nottingham city centre, offering business advice, workshops & room hire. So I’m bang up to date with the challenges of running a small business today!

Due to current circumstances we have changed this to be a remote workshop via zoom. Zoom is very simple to use, and you can use the free version.

Cost: £35 for this session. Private Business advice is also available please ask for details.