Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
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what for ? £400 for apparently cheap insurance ,, not for me.
i find all these things to be self-interest to themselves & find u get most services free or cheap anyway elsewhere. u are in the juice ; this is more direct / a useful small self-federating business support??
robin
gardens4u.co.uk
The main benefits for me are legal advice line (which I have used extensively) for help with clients and employees, website with downloadable templates to help write letters, staff contracts etc. I also use the free banking service provided with the Co-op.
It costs me £170 per year.
Nick.
I,ve just joined today. I think the benefits are worth it. My accountant recommended joining.
We've belonged for ~10 years and fully recommend esp if you make use of all the benefits and advice lines...http://www.fsb.org.uk/
I think it easy to 'diss' it or ignore it when you don't know what it is, what it can provide or what is costs...
The meeting and business seminars/training they run are valuable, especially when combined with informal foc networking..
What it provides to us is pure business support and legislative updates that affect our business environment.
It's legal line is great, good benefits (of which have made use of..) along with its two monthly magazines. The local regional network is good at looking after and representing our/your interests to the Local Authority upwards to lobbying central government.
Like membership of any organisations, you need to look at what you can put in and what you can gain.
Clearly, for some businesses or people it would not be applicable or the right choice.
Our yearly membership costs are in line with Nick's and if I remember are based on t/o and fixed at time of joining
i know about it , if it works for you fine as anything.
Thanks for your comments, the free banking is something that interests me, together with the reduced card handling costs with Streamline, that have a tie in with the FSB. Our accountant tells me that they offer a free insurance against inland revenue investigations, which currently costs us about £195 a year.
I just wanted to see how people who actually belong to the FSB find things before joining.
If you already pay for IR investigation cover then the FSB membership is probably a no brainer as it offers so much more!
Fenlandphil said:
Hi, do you think that it is more for those who have staff, just that i am thinking of employing for the first time next year and it looks complicated
........and that is exactly the reason I have been a member for many years. It's a type of insurance policy with many spin-offs you may want to use.
Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said: