The Prince's Trust

What are 'hints and tips'?

Hints and Tips are a collection of pages which have largely been created by interviewing experts and Prince's Trust supported businesses who have ‘been there, done that’. We have started with some of the more popular sectors currently supported by The Trust, but there’s no reason why every supported sector shouldn’t have their own Hints and Tips page. So if your client’s sector doesn’t have a page, why not start one? Equally if you are an expert in a particular sector, use these pages as a template and send us a draft for consideration.

How you can help

Your vital comments and suggestions will help us keep this resource as full, as accurate and as up-to-date as possible. Indeed your client’s own experiences could prove vital in helping similar businesses to save money, adopt best practice and avoid pitfalls.

Staying up to date.

The site also contains another useful feature to keep yourself posted about new ideas and suggestions. By ‘subscribing’ to a page, we automatically keep you informed by email when that page is updated. So you don’t need to keep checking it to see if anything’s been added.

Guidance for hints and tips

• Comments and advice should be specific to each business sector. Elsewhere we provide more general guidance for creating and running a successful business.
• We prefer not to recommend particular suppliers. However, we do want to draw attention to good value, trustworthy national suppliers of products and services for clients to consider.
• This resource is intended to help businesses throughout the UK. Avoid advice that is specific to a town or region.
• Confine yourself to advice that's appropriate to small businesses, especially start-ups.
• Each piece of advice should be concise. Avoid essays.
• Include links to any examples or places for deeper research.
• All suggested changes and inclusions will be carefully considered by the editorial team before making them live if accepted.
• No advice will be attributed.