STANTA is an independent Enterprise Agency

We have served the business people of St Albans, Harpenden and surrounding villages for over 40 years, with impartial advice and low-risk office space to rent in St Albans. It is a Not for Profit service for the benefit of the community and has enabled local people to start, grow and develop successful businesses.

STANTA is proud to be a member of the National Enterprise Network, the only membership body in England representing those working in the enterprise support sector. We are also delighted to have won the FSB Community Business award for 2015.

How we can help

Our professional advisers have helped thousands of businesses over the years to get established and grow, with free or low cost impartial, independent, expert advice.

We believe passionately that start-ups and small businesses need one-to-one general advice with an experienced adviser before they invest too much time, energy and money in specific activity.

Whether it is setting up a website, undertaking marketing, taking on premises or staff; a one-to-one session with a general adviser will be of great value. See what our clients say.

Useful resources

We have recently reviewed and refreshed our portfolio of services to ensure that they are relevant to the needs of today’s clients.

Whilst one-to-one advice remains our core service, we are now supplementing this with our Start Up Info Hub, which provides comprehensive factual information on most aspects of starting and running a business.

Take a look our other information such as Local Networking Groups and useful third party organisations.

We provide business skills training in St Albans on key areas such as business planning, bookkeeping, marketing and social media.

In addition, to help with any legal issues that may arise, we offer free legal advice service with an experienced lawyer. Their advice will help you to understand any difficult or complex legal challenges that you may be facing.