About us
Who we are
Oxfordshire Business Enterprises is the enterprise service for Oxfordshire and the surrounding area. Its role is to provide the right advice to help people start and run a business, so if you want to learn more about how to start yours, you've come to the right place.
Oxfordshire Business Enterprises' core service of providing business advice on a one-to-one basis is free, confidential and available to anyone. This includes general advice on starting a business as well as specialist advice on topics such as finance, VAT, sales or marketing.
Our mission is:
- to give advice on how to start your own business in the Oxfordshire area
- to help people start and run new businesses and to increase their chances of success
- to contribute to employment creation, new business generation and wealth of the Oxfordshire area
We are a non-profit making organisation supported by all Oxfordshire's local authorities and co-ordinated from Cherwell District Council's offices in Banbury. In the last twenty years we have provided business advice to 30,000 people.
Book a session
Contact us using this online form, or by calling 01295 227082 to find out more about receiving help and advice from Oxfordshire Business Enterprises. Our Enterprise Co-ordinator, Lynette Riley, can arrange a free one-to-one meeting with one of our advisors to discuss your business idea and to identify how our business startup services can best help you.
You are entitled to as many free one-to-one meetings with an advisor as you wish. A few weeks after your meetings we might contact you again to suggest a further session to review progress.
Give your new business the best start in life with qualified voluntary business advisors.
Venues
Considerable thanks go to the following for providing venues for the service:
- Banbury - Cherwell District Council
- Banbury - Ellacotts LLP
- Berinsfield - Employment Action Group
- Bicester - Sadler Talbot
- Chipping Norton - The Cromwell Business Centre, Country Estates
- Faringdon - Bordengate Insurance
- Fulbrook - Prospect Accounting
- Grove Business Centre on Grove Technology Park - Grove 2000 plc
- Harwell - Harwell Innovation Centre
- Launton, Bicester - Grange Mews
- Oxford - Sandford Gate, Clarendon Enterprise Centres
- Summertown - Prama House, Clarendon Enterprise Centres
- Wantage - The Independent Advice Centre
- Witney - West Oxfordshire District Council
