Starting your business: structure, registration and first steps

Starting your business: structure, registration and first steps runs at Egerton House on Wednesday 27 January, a session for anyone in Liverpool looking to get a new venture off the ground. It's a practical look at the early stages of setting up, and it starts at 09:30.

The morning focuses on the three things that usually trip people up when they're just starting: business structure, registration, and those first few steps. The structure part is the big one — deciding whether to go as a sole trader, a partnership, or a limited company. Each has its own way of working when it comes to tax, liability, and how you run things day to day, so it's the kind of thing that's worth getting right from the start rather than sorting out later.

Registration is the next bit, the actual paperwork and legal boxes you need to tick to make it official. And then there are the first steps — the practical, on-the-ground things you do once the paperwork is in, the stuff that moves you from having an idea on a page to actually trading. It's a session that takes those three stages and puts them in order, so you can see how they fit together.

It's at Egerton House in Liverpool, and it kicks off at 09:30 on Wednesday 27 January.