Starting a New Business in Hackney?

Get to know Hackney and its people – your potential customers. Our Streets Ahead guide to the borough showcases the different characters of the borough’s neighbourhoods, and highlights the many exciting opportunities that each brings to prospective businesses and investors.

For more detailed demographic information LBH has produced a Borough Profile together with individual Ward Profiles for each of the 19 wards. These provide statistics on subjects as diverse as household composition, economic activity and health, amongst other things.

Our Business Support Signposting service will provide you with information on the help and advice you can get when looking to start a business. There is information on business networks and on tendering opportunities and you can also find a guide on how to do business with the council.

We offer a commercial property search service. Our database is updated regularly with information from local property agents and our contacts. Register some basic details on the site and you can use our property search function. You can search by postcode, property type and size with the results displayed on an interactive map.

For small businesses and businesses just starting out managed workspace provides a flexible and affordable option. Depending on the provider the space is let either on a desk-by-desk basis, or as small offices. Most businesses find the networking opportunities in managed/shared workspace invaluable, often finding both customers and suppliers in the same building. Space is let on a lease or licence agreement, usually with a shorter notice period than that often required for commercial property. See our listing of Managed Workspace for more details.

If you are thinking of using your home as business premises, even if it is only the spare room, there are a number of points to check before you begin. For more information see the Knowledge Centre, and the Business Link website.