Federation of Small Businesses – recommendation

[Lynn Normington]

Hi Janine
is it Fsb? and if it’s not and if it’s of benifit I don’t why you wouldn’t be able to say unlless it’s you

Lynn

P.S. I am quite often wrong

[Carrie Brown]

Janine …. as long as you are not promoting yourself then it should be fine? If its not we can just edit it anyway … :lol1:

[Janine Chrispin]

It is the Federation of Small Businesses. I am only a member, but all the benefits look good for the cost. It costs from £100 (£30 registration fee payable in the first year) per year to join if there is just yourself and no employees.

Janine

[Martin Pearson]

Janine, The FSB is something that all small businesses should seriously look at joining. Although I am involved with them I dont think I am breaking board rules by saying this as I am not promoting myself and there is no financial gain to me.
They won’t make you rich as they are not a networking organisation/business like some of the American franchises that are currently going about but they can probably save you money and the legal protection offered is worth the membership on its own.
Do however look closely at the services that they provide, some of them are not the best, the telephone service for one is not the cheapest about so you do need to check before you sign up for things.
How active the branches are also varies greatly from area to area, as a lot of people only join for the benefits like the legal protection Branch meetings can be very poorly attended even though they are free to attend and quite often have speakers covering subjects that should be of interest to small businesses (not just signmakers).

[Lorraine Clinch]

I joined the FSB recently, mainly because they will do the donkey-work if you should happen to be the subject of a tax investigation by the IR. (as I was earlier this year-what stress, wish I had known about FSB a year back)

By the way, the taxman decided they owed me even more money than my accountant had claimed, after everything had been looked through with a fine tooth-comb! Plonkers 👿 (oops! Am I allowed to say that?)