# Curated Resources — the reviewed shelf of UK business guidance > Every business resource here was found, checked, categorised and trust-scored > by Business111.com before it went anywhere near a search result. Not a link > dump. Not the open web. A shelf someone actually curated. **Live page:** https://business111.com/resources **Category page pattern:** `https://business111.com/resources/` --- ## Curation is the product Anyone can crawl the web. The hard, unglamorous, valuable work is deciding what deserves to be in front of a business owner at 11pm when they are trying to work out whether they need a licence. The answers to most UK business questions already exist. The problem is that they are scattered across GOV.UK, HMRC, Companies House, 300-odd local authorities, devolved-nation services, trade bodies and a long tail of blogs — written in different registers, contradicting each other, and half of it out of date. Search engines return all of it. Generic AI invents a confident average of it. Business111.com does the sorting instead. Every resource in the collection has been: - **Selected** — it earns its place, or it isn't there. - **Categorised** — filed under the question a business owner would actually ask, not under the department that published it. - **Trust-scored** — weighted by source type (government, academic, expert, commercial, community), so official guidance outranks a content-marketing post. - **Geo-tagged** — marked UK-wide, or England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland, or down to a specific local authority. - **Kept alive** — re-crawled on a schedule, with dead and broken links flagged rather than quietly rotting. That curated collection is also exactly what the [Business111 Navigator](https://business111.com/llms/search.md) searches. The curation and the answers are the same asset: an AI answer is only as trustworthy as the shelf it was drawn from. ## How the shelf is organised Categories are phrased as **questions a business owner would ask**, not as administrative headings. There is no "Regulatory Compliance Division" — there is *"What rules do I need to follow?"* Ten top-level categories, each with its own sub-category pages, listed here largest shelf first. ### How do I run my business day to day? The largest shelf on the site — the everyday operational grind. - Business Templates — `/resources/how-business-templates` - Get the right insurance — `/resources/how-get-the-right-insurance` - Go digital safely — `/resources/how-go-digital-safely` - Making Tax Digital — `/resources/how-making-tax-digital` - Manage your accounts — `/resources/how-manage-your-accounts` - Meet other business owners — `/resources/how-meet-other-business-owners` - Plan your exit — `/resources/how-plan-your-exit` - Self Employed — `/resources/how-self-employed` - Sell to government — `/resources/how-sell-to-government` ### What rules do I need to follow? Compliance, the thing that costs you money when you get it wrong. - Deal with HMRC — `/resources/what-deal-with-hmrc` - Find the right authorities — `/resources/what-find-the-right-authorities` - Follow employment rules — `/resources/what-follow-employment-rules` - Get GDPR right — `/resources/what-get-gdpr-right` - Get local support — `/resources/what-get-local-support` - Register your business — `/resources/what-register-your-business` - Stay safe and compliant — `/resources/what-stay-safe-and-compliant` - Understand VAT — `/resources/what-understand-vat` ### How do I stay on top of money? - Choose the right banking — `/resources/how-choose-the-right-banking` - Control your cashflow — `/resources/how-control-your-cashflow` - Find funding — `/resources/how-find-funding` - Local Loop Merseyside — `/resources/how-local-loop-merseyside` - Pay less tax legally — `/resources/how-pay-less-tax-legally` - The Xero For Good Ambassador programme — `/resources/how-the-xero-for-good-ambassador-programme` ### How do I find people and look after myself? Hiring, skills — and the founder's own wellbeing, which most business-support sites ignore entirely. - Build skills fast — `/resources/how-build-skills-fast` - Find the right people — `/resources/how-find-the-right-people` - Health Intervention — `/resources/how-health-intervention` - Hire from abroad — `/resources/how-hire-from-abroad` - Look after yourself — `/resources/how-look-after-yourself` ### How do I grow my business? - Funding Resources — `/resources/how-funding-resources` - Get growth support — `/resources/how-get-growth-support` - Help to grow — `/resources/how-help-to-grow` - Increase my rates — `/resources/how-increase-my-rates` - Protect your ideas — `/resources/how-protect-your-ideas` - Self Employed — `/resources/how-self-employed` - Sell overseas — `/resources/how-sell-overseas` - Win more customers — `/resources/how-win-more-customers` ### Who can I trust for advice? Named, recognised organisations rather than anonymous advice. - Better Business Finance — `/resources/who-better-business-finance` - Enterprise Research Centre — `/resources/who-enterprise-research-centre` - Help to Grow — `/resources/who-help-to-grow` - IPSE — `/resources/who-ipse` - South East Enterprise — `/resources/who-south-east-enterprise-` - The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) — `/resources/who-the-finance-leasing-association-fla` - Xero — `/resources/who-xero` ### Directors - What you need to know as a Director — `/resources/directors-what-you-need-to-know-as-a-director` ### Making Tax Digital - Compliance — `/resources/making-compliance` ### What help is available locally? - Freeports — `/resources/what-freeports` - Hull and East Yorkshire — `/resources/what-hull-and-east-yorkshire-` ### Community Specific Resources - South Tyneside Pledge — `/resources/community-south-tyneside-pledge` ## Local before national, where it matters Resources carry geographic tags, so a Welsh business is shown Business Wales, a Scottish one Scottish Enterprise, a Northern Irish one Invest NI — alongside the UK-wide rules that apply to everyone. Local growth hubs, LEPs and council schemes sit on the same shelf as GOV.UK, because to the person running the business they are the same problem. ## Kept current, deliberately A curated collection that stops being maintained becomes a liability. Resources are re-crawled on a schedule, pages that stop responding are flagged, and descriptions are regenerated when a source changes. Fresh guidance, articles and podcasts are added continuously — you are not reading last year's advice. ## Related - Search the whole collection — https://business111.com/llms/search.md - News for UK small businesses — https://business111.com/llms/news.md - Podcasts — https://business111.com/llms/podcasts.md