Contacts

From advice and training on advertising standards, to meeting the ‘must dos’ your business needs to comply with to fulfil the Food Standards Agency’s mission to make ‘food you can trust’, our Business Hub can direct you to the right place. Explore our short directory below and follow the links to access the support you need to help your business flourish.

Quick links

Action Fraud

Provides advice to businesses large and small to help you protect your enterprise from all manner of frauds, which can affect any type of business in many different ways. Remember, no business is too small to be targeted.

Citizens Advice

Not just for individual members of the public, Citizens Advice also offers support to small businesses with consumer problems, such as when switching your small business to a new energy supplier, or when you have an issue with your energy bill.

Food Standards Agency

Provides guidance on setting up and running your food business, helping you to fulfil their mission of supporting businesses to manage and sell food that people can trust. 

Intellectual Property Office

This is an office within the national government that exists to help protect business’ intellectual property. This can range from the names of your products or brands, to things you write, make or produce. 

National Trading Standards

A national intelligence-gathering service targeting rogue traders and other trading standards’ priorities, such as mass marketing and internet scams, which go beyond local authority boundaries. 

The Department for Business and Trade

This national government department exists to support businesses to invest, grow and export, and aims to create jobs and opportunities across the country. Their website can inform you about supplying the Department for Business and Trade with goods or services, and selling goods or services to the public sector more generally.

The Advertising Standards Authority

Find business advice and resources to help you keep your advertising across all media – from press ads to direct mail – in line with the latest Advertising Codes, which are written by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). 

© CEnTSA 2026. Registered with number: 10246071. The Central England Trading Standards Authorities (CEnTSA) is a collaboration of 14 Trading Standards Services from Local Authorities across the West Midlands. We aim to maximise the impact individual services have by establishing and maintaining good working relationships with a wide range of regional business partners, supporting businesses in the region and by promoting economic growth. If you would like to find out more about how CEnTSA works across the Midlands contact Nick Harrison Regional Policy Co-ordinator nick.harrison@warwickshire.gov.uk