Small Business Service appoints Reading Room

01/04/2005 - London

Small Business Service appoints Reading Room

Reading Room have been appointed as Small Business Service's retained consultancy for the businesslink.gov.uk website.

The Business Link web-portal is an online service providing information, guidance and action-support that enables all UK businesses - particularly owners and managers in small-to-medium sized enterprises - to handle their business challenges more successfully and be more in control of their dealings with central and local government. It is:

The first place to go to find out what you need to know or do, how to get it done and who can help you start-up, grow or manage your business.

Reading Room will work closely with SBS on a continuous basis to enhance existing site elements for the user. They will also be charged with creating new design elements to work seamlessly into the existing framework and complement the current design and functionality.

The win is an exciting one for Reading Room and the team are particularly looking forward to working on the businesslink.gov.uk portal with SBS in the effort to provide a 'one stop shop' to efficiently cater to small businesses and provide them with the easiest access to the vast quantity of information and services on offer.

Margaret Manning, CEO of Reading Room

The whole of the Reading Room team is thrilled to be working with the SBS team. We share SBS's vision for businesslink.gov.uk and look forward to a long and successful working relationship with them.

Mark Holden, E-services Director, SBS

"We are delighted that Reading Room will be working with us to further enhance our award-winning site and help us make it even easier for SMEs to do business in the UK."

About SBS:

Business Link is a service, managed by the DTI, providing businesses with easy access to support, advice and information. It's dedicated to helping new and existing businesses innovate, improve, grow and become more competitive by providing quick and easy links to a broad range of private, public and voluntary business support services.