Setting up business
You want to start your own business, conduct an own trade or want to work on a freelance basis?
This page was designed to give you an overview of where to find information, counseling and important tips. Because a sound independent existence needs good preparation. Thus, you may for example learn where and how to receive loans, bonuses, interests or guarantees.
In the district of Soest, counseling and a lot more is provided by the Wirtschaftsförderung des Kreises (association for the promotion of trade and industry of the district of Soest).
In the district of Soest, there is no specific counseling for the setting up of a business for migrants whose German is insufficient but migrants having their domicile in North Rhine Westphalia are able to get free-of-charge counseling at the Regionales Förderzentrum für ausländische Existenzgründer und Unternehmer (RFZ) (regional support center for foreign founders of a new business and entrepreneurs) based in Bonn. The counseling is offered in German, Turkish, Russian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, English and French language.
For the address and many other points of contact, please see the website "Self-employed persons" of the integration portal of the state of NRW.
For further information please also see here on the page of the start center Hellweg.