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Before you spend several hundred pounds on a startup workshop, it is worth knowing that a lot of the same help is already funded locally and sitting four clicks deep on a council website. Here is how to find it, what to ask for, and how to leave with something you can act on.
Registration is the easy part. Before you become a sole trader or set up a limited company, spend an hour with one page and five honest numbers to test whether anyone will actually pay.
There's a point where a side hustle stops being a hobby with a payment link. This walkthrough covers the minimum you actually have to do to be legit in the UK, what can safely wait, and the mistakes that get expensive fast.