I’ve recently launched my cleaning and gardening business and am currently looking to grow by securing commercial clients. I have a small but capable team, and we’re able to cover both West Sussex and the London area.

Any leads or opportunities would be greatly appreciated—thank you!

Hi, my 14 year old son is very crafty and loves making things with the Cricut cutting machine, he wants to make football crest shadow box frames, I.E put an Arsenal badge in the box frame and then sell them, is this allowed or does he need permission from football clubs to use their badge?

I’m exploring the idea of starting a career as a caregiver and would love to hear from those already in the field or familiar with the process. What skills are essential to begin? Are there specific certifications or documentation I would need to get started?
I want to ensure I’m properly prepared before taking the first step, so any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!

I hope you’re doing well!





I’m 14 years old and run a dropshipping business on Depop. Since I’m under 16, I can’t register as self-employed yet, so I’m wondering if I can declare the income from my business under my parent’s name until I turn 16 and can register myself.





I have a few questions and would really appreciate your help:

1. Can I declare the income from my business under my parent’s name for tax purposes until I’m old enough to register as self-employed?
2. Will the money I make from my business count as part of our household income? Could it affect my parent’s eligibility for things like housing benefit or Universal Credit?
3. If the income is reported by my parent, is there a special way to handle it with HMRC, and should it still be considered my income for things like benefits?

Thank you so much for your time and help! I’m looking forward to your reply.

Hello everyone,

I'm preparing the final Self Assessment return for a client who transitioned from sole trader to limited company status. He traded as a sole trader until the last day of the 2024–25 tax year.

As part of the incorporation, we prepared an Asset Transfer Declaration to move all business assets to the limited company at fair market value (totaling £17,000). All of these assets had 100% AIA claimed in previous tax years.

Since the sole trade has now ceased, I understand this is treated as a disposal of the assets for capital allowances purposes.

My question is: since the assets were transferred to the limited company in exchange for shares (using Incorporation Relief), and therefore no cash consideration was received, does that mean the full £17,000 fair value left on those assets need to be added as a balancing charge on the last self-assessment, and basically increase the taxable income by another £17k?

Thanks for your help!

Hello

I newly opened company in uk and i have company in Saudi Arabia, we are specialised in events, summits, conferences organisations along with tourism ( All types ).
(OPENED TO ANY NEW BUSINESS)

I am looking for Partnership with local company in uk that would co operate with my company to increase business between UK and KSA.
Any one knows where I can find such companies to discuss further ?
Appreciate it

Hi everyone,

We're a small team behind an augmented reality puzzle brand, launched in the UK about six months ago. Our puzzles are designed to be both fun and educational — using a mobile app, kids can bring farm animals, dinosaurs, planets, and wonders of the world to life in 3D, right from the completed puzzle.

While we've had great feedback on the product itself, we're struggling with sales and building momentum. We're relatively new to the UK market and don’t yet have the right contacts or network here.

I'd be very grateful for any advice on:

How to get in touch with retail shops, toy stores, or school suppliers

Ways to approach wholesalers or distributors interested in unique educational products

Whether there's someone out there who might want to join us on this journey — as a partner, advisor, or even local sales rep

If you've navigated something similar or can point us in the right direction, I’d really appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance,
Harold
Unpuzzled AR

Hi all,

I am looking at setting up a ltd company as I have been offered a 3 month contract working in Middle East (This hopefully leads to a longer term contract).

I have some beginner questions I hope you good folks can help with.

1...Do I need an accountant ?
2...Should i open a business bank account and CC ?
3...What type of expenses can i claim for ?
4...How do I pay out dividends ?

I probably have more questions, but these are forefront at the moment.

We follow a freelancer with quite a few followers on social media and we'd like him to write a guest article for our own site.

Is there a standard template that sets out the basics for the kind of contract work / relationship we want to create?

E.g. you write this for us, then post the link to your social media channels, with this many reposts, etc?

Thanks

Mobile gaming market in the UK: Worth exploring in 2025? I’m noticing strong casual gamer engagement even in 35–50 age group — anyone else seeing this trend?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently exploring funding options for my e-commerce business and someone recently recommended CapRelease as a potential private funding company. I’d love to hear if anyone here has used CapRelease before and whether you’d recommend them.

Also, are there any risks or important points to be aware of when working with private funding companies versus going through a traditional bank? Is it generally considered safer or more reliable to go through a bank?

Any insights or experiences would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Hi im new to this forum im looking for partners to import rabbit meat from Zimbabwe to UK. Im a UK citizen and I have a rabbit farm in Zimbabwe

We've got a large client list that dates back a while, we want to send out a mass email, giving them an idea of what's new etc.

Any provider we can use for this that will have a high probability of getting in the inbox? Our current mail server always goes spam which normally is fine, but this is different.

Our company was dissolved in January 2025 but we have just received an email from the management company of our old retail premises to say we are due a refund of our service charges. They want to pay it into our business account but this was closed by the Treasury. We do have an old company account that wasn't closed. Are we able to claim the refund into this account or as we are dissolved would this not be legal?

Hi!
I'm an overseas digital freelancer, and the clients always paid me by wire transfer. Once they insisted doing the payment by Payonner, at the end I hated it. Pay Pal definitely is not my friend. So I registered in UpWork, even they retained 10%, I found it very effectively.

But in my last work I find me in such a mess, that I don't understand why I started to pay fees and fees....

First, I'm not UK citizen.
The salary is £2500 (receipt of Truist bank). They ask me my bank account details, as always in an international wire transfer.
They prevent me that all fee payment will be refunded at the end with my salary.
1' Conversion exchange $2100 MXN
2' FDIC $250 USD
3' IRS Tax Owe €500
4' Membership company $11000 MXN
5' Bank Key Code (token) for the new bank account $25000 MXN
6' Activate the Membership $15500 MXN
7' Brokerage Clearance (6 months) €3500
8' Money Laundry $3193 COT = $65000 MXN
9' ACH Payment Virtual Terminal creation $110200 MXN
10' US-SEC $ 210000 MXN
11' Reactivation transaction amount $63000 MXN
12' Excise Tax $305000 MXN
13' API fee $75000 MXN

And NOW they demand me to pay
14' ESCROW $300000 MXN, half of the total amount....

OBVIOUSLY all the money came from bank loans, that I can't pay because I can't pay the Escrow and free all the money.....

YOU all beautiful people of this community could help me?
In UK are real all the fees that I needed to pay? Or it has been a scam?

I don't understand about finances, only of legal taxes.

Hello

Think to start my own business as self employed delivery driver and more likely as Ltd company but I’m not interested in multi drop deliveries.
I’m I looking to go the route that my business would do deliveries only small palletised same day deliveries or next day delivery and starting out only with single Van.

I’m trying to understand how desperate the logistic companies are at the moment for small palletised stuff to be delivered?

I will appreciate any honest answer.

Hi all,
I recently set up a Ltd company which has just started to turn a profit after covering costs (yey!) But I'm just realising I don't know how to pay myself as a director

New one for me...

I'm running a WordPress powered site with enabled All in One SEO, Wordfence, and Lightspeed plugins. I'm mentioning these as possible causes of my problem.

I had an email from Google Search Console this morning reporting that it couldn't index my site due to 500 errors, which is odd. I checked server logs and nothing in there, the site is, and was, responding, and the xml and rss sitemaps have been picked up by Google. The site only came out of maintenance mode yesterday (I was blocking all bots) and I did a general clear-up of any pages/elements that I didn't need.

Those cleared up URLs appear in the unindexable (sic) report, but then genuine pages and I have nada in Google's index. I have asked a reindex but my brain is telling me that to repeat the same thing over and over with the hope of a different outcome is the definition of insanity

Anything else I should be checking?

We are in the process of trying to sign a
commercial lease (very much newbies to the world of retail and this is our first shop/commercial unit.)
Our solicitor is saying that our landlord must seek legal representation in order for them to proceed in negotiating the lease. Our landlord is saying that this shouldn’t be necessary and he can deal with our solicitor directly.
It’s an old fashioned lease apparently but not one with lots of points/comments to be addressed.
We’re not sure which way to go!
Could we find a solicitor who will speak to our landlord directly or is this not a thing?!

Hi all I’m following a company whims confirmation statement was due in August last year but there has been no strike off or any consequence of this. The accounts are overdue by a week too. Why would companies house not strike them off? Online it says it’s a criminal offence to not supply required documents on time so why would they ignore this? Thank you

I want to learn about business stuff as much as possible and I was curious what sources of information and news people here would recommend? I'm interested in everything from accounting to general hints and tips for business owners and everything inbetween.

I like to learn about things I don't know much about so would appreciate any suggestions.

I have a long-running Ltd in good standing, through which I provide consultancy services. I'm the sole director and there are no employees.
There are one or two side projects I am considering that are in totally different fields, and I don't want the paperwork/cost of running multiple companies. The company also has significant cash reserves which I would like to invest.

Online research says you can "run multiple businesses through the same company using trading names" but I thought you had to define quite strictly what your company does with Companies House.

So let's say JDX Ltd currently provides software consultancy, but wishes to sell my new range of jewellery and operate an AirBnb. I don't really care about trading names, can it do this or could I run into issues? What do I need to read up on/google?

Still undergoing a lengthy liquidation process for a small business as a contractor. Alway took dividends out - hit by contracts in 2020/21 due to Covid. Cash reserve of 100k at the start of that year so continued to take dividends whilst seeking new contracts until 2021. Contract came through in 2021 but had to be under IR35 so liquidated. Only debt was the BBL. All tax paid. They are now seeking that the dividends were illegal and asking pay back even though that would be double owed to the creditors? Very anxious. As I would not have liquidated if this had been highlighted.

Do not know why but my post was removed. Not friendly. So sad.

Hi,
I’m looking to start a soup business where I produce ready to eat soups at home… package them in retort pouches. Sell them locally.

Can anyone advise how I can start - what do I need to add to the soup to preserve it?

Thanks
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