Business advice and support

Starting a new business

Help is available if you're interested in starting a new business.

Get support for starting a business
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Business grants

A range of grants and support for businesses.

More on business grants
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Investing in the borough

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    Rochdale Development Agency

    Rochdale Development Agency (RDA) is here to support you and your business.

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    Improving the borough

    We're working hard to make the borough a better place for residents, visitors and businesses.

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    Starting a business

    If you're a new business or thinking of starting up, there's plenty of free advice and support available.

Decision making

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    Policies, strategies and reviews

    We use policy and strategy documents to guide our decisions. We also use them to develop and run our services fairly and consistently.

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    Councillors and committees

    Councillors are responsible for agreeing provision of services and how the council's money is spent.