• We provide free remote general business advice clinic appointments weekly with our team of business advisers, using a range of remote tools including: Telephone, WhatsApp, Skype, Teams and Zoom.
• Our business advisers can provide you with general business advice whether you are an entrepreneur with a business idea, a new start-up or a growing and established small business, based within the LEO Cork North & West catchment area.
• Please note that if your business is based outside the catchment area of the LEO Cork North & West, we will not be able to provide you with an appointment and you will be asked to liaise with your own Local Enterprise Office.
• Our catchment area for Cork North & West includes: Bandon, Bantry, Castletownbere, Charleville, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Fermoy, Inishannon, Kanturk, Kinsale, Mallow, Mitchelstown, Newmarket, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, The Beara Peninsula.
• Our business advisers can provide you with information & the supports & the steps that are necessary for your business goals.
• Please note that for very specific legal, taxation or accounting queries we would refer you on to your Accountant or www.revenue.ie
• At any one time we only publish dates for the current month on our online application system.
• Due to demand for places, we have a limit of three one hour time slots, per business, per annum for the appointments.

• Please be advised that the use of AI systems during these sessions must be discussed with your mentor in advance with consent clearly obtained in advance by the party being recorded.

Once you make your online application:

• Our business adviser will contact you in advance of your confirmed appointment date and time, by email.
• Our business adviser will confirm with you which type of remote contact he/she will make with you for the appointment, for example: telephone, WhatsApp, Skype, Teams or Zoom.
• GDPR Policy - AI Recordings
  • Please be advised that the use of AI systems during these sessions must be discussed with your mentor in advance with consent clearly obtained in advance by the party being recorded.

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