Business Link was an English business advice service, billed as a ‘One Stop Shop’ for business. It was supported by a network of regional business advisers that helped support startups and businesses at various stages of development.
For those that remember it, it was a valuable service to those businesses that used it, akin to a local business bank manager in a bank – remember those days?
However, as you can tell by my past tense, Business Link was axed in 2011 and was never really replaced directly, unless you count the first DirectGov initiative, which was an all-encompassing website that was designed to take over every part of the disparate online government services. Thankfully, this was replaced with a much better version, which is now Gov.uk. Unfortunately, Gov.uk doesn’t provide anywhere near the level of support (physical or online) that Business Link once did, but that’s not really