New Business is pleased to be associated with Nick Ogden's new initiative to assist Businesses in getting off the ground and to make available to them our business advice and guidance

Nick Ogden, the 2010 National Business Awards Entrepreneur of the Year winner and founder of WorldPay and Voice Commerce Group, today launched Business.co.uk [1]  a non-for-profit online portal designed to encourage British entrepreneurs to setup and start running their own businesses.

Business.co.uk [2] is a unique portal providing new business start ups with immediate access to discounts, offers and incentives through its rapidly growing number of partnerships.

Companies offering incentives include BT Group, School for Startups, NatWest, easyJet, AXA Insurance, Fasthosts Internet Ltd and RJJ Freight Ltd, all of which have developed individual programmes to encourage and support business starts ups in the UK.

Business.co.uk intends to develop the portal further by adding interactive consumer services that will encourage entrepreneurs to take the leap of setting up a new business.

These services will allow them to search and buy products and services from other UK based business at a regional and local level, thereby supporting UK trade.