Local Enterprise Office

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Welcome to Local Enterprise Office Carlow

Please note that in the Interest of Public Health & Safety – Carlow - Local Enterprise Office is operating its services remotely and only conducting essential business Face to Face.

For an appointment to meet a Business Advisor please contact enterprise@Carlowcoco.ie or call 059-9129783

The public counter is open in Enterprise House from 11am-1pm & 2pm-3pm on Monday-Friday (Excluding Bank Holidays) for the scheduling of appointments only.

Upcoming Events

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01/02/2022	LE6022 - Start Your Own Business - 1st Feb 2022	Book online
10/03/2022	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 10th Mar 2022	Book online
06/04/2022	MACH 2022 - NEC Birmingham Expression of Interest	Book online
02/06/2022	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 2nd June 2022	Book online
08/09/2022	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 8th Sep 2022	Book online
01/12/2022	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 1st Dec 2022	Book online
31/12/2022	Expression of Interest - Start Your Own Business	Book online

Latest News

21/01/2022
International opportunities for Creatives as Council calls applications for Craft Hub Residencies. ...
Creative community in County Carlow and beyond have a unique opportunity to expand their horizons with the opening of the call for applications for Maker Exchange Residencies as part of the Craft Hub Project which is a European project co-funded by Creative Europe that is focused on craft in the context of cultural heritage...
21/01/2022
Craft Hub Residencies
International opportunities for Creatives as Council calls applications for Craft Hub Residencies...
20/01/2022
Carlow Businesses Encouraged to Enter National Enterprise Awards...
Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office are encouraging local businesses to rise to the challenge of representing Carlow in the National Enterprise Awards. ...
19/01/2022
LOCAL ENTERPRISE OFFICE CARLOW CLIENTS CREATED 265 JOBS IN 2021...
LOCAL ENTERPRISE OFFICE CARLOW NOW SUPPORTING OVER 203 SMALL BUSINESSES AND 1015 JOBS ACCORDING TO NEW FIGURES
17/01/2022
LOCAL ENTERPRISE OFFICE CLIENTS CREATED OVER 7,400 JOBS IN 2021...
21/12/2021
Funding Call – Colour Carlow – Streetscape Scheme – Additional Funding – Closing Date: 31st January 2022...
Due to additional funding an additional call for funding applications in Rathvilly , Leighlinbridge , Bagenalstown & Tullow is being called for the Colour Carlow Streetscape Scheme. The closing date for applications under the scheme is closing on 31st January 2022. ...
20/12/2021
Call for applications for Festival & Event Funding for 2022 ...
Carlow County Council has this week announced details of its Community Festival and Events funding for 2022. ...
17/12/2021
County Carlow – Festive Family Image Photography Competition ...
10/12/2021
Over Half a Million Grant Aid Awarded...
Over Half a Million in Grant Aid Awarded to Carlow Businesses in 2021...
03/12/2021
Carlow’s Craft and Design take centre stage at the Fairgreen Shopping Centre ...
02/12/2021
Carlow Businesses Encouraged to “Look to Liverpool”...
Businesses in Carlow who have ambition to grow through export sales are encouraged to take part in a new programme which will support them to meet new potential customers in Liverpool...
29/11/2021
Thousands flock to Festive Family Experience Kick Off Event ...
Over two thousand people attended the Carlow County – A Festive Family Experience Music & Fireworks Showcase Event held on Saturday 27th November 2021 in the Town Hall, Car Park in Carlow Town. ...
25/11/2021
Regional Enterprise Transition Scheme approval...
Counties Vision for Enterprise Spaces takes one step forward...
19/11/2021
Council publishes Village Led Design Statement for Hacketstown...
Carlow County Council has published the “Hacketstown Design Statement”,developed with support from the Town & Village Renewal Scheme, at the Tullow Municipal District....
19/11/2021
International Activities planned for 2022 and beyond as part of Craft Hub International Meeting ...
13 delegates from across Europe as part of the Craft Hub Programme descended on County Carlow this week for the development of the Craft Hub Programme....
04/09/2014
Local Enterprise Office Launches New Loan Partnership
The Local Enterprise Office Carlow is teaming up with Microfinance Ireland, to launch a new type of loan support aimed at the small business community in the region....
18/08/2014
Showcase 2015
Local Enterprise Office –Carlow is seeking expressions of interest from clients engaged in the craft, design and gift sector interested in taking a stand in the Enterprise Zone at Showcase 18th – 21st January 2015. ...
14/08/2014
New Frontiers Programme 2014
Waterford Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Carlow are currently recruiting for their next New Frontiers Programme....
25/07/2014
Form Group to Exhibit at Kilkenny Arts Festival...
FORM is a group of designer makers and craftspeople living and working in the Carlow region of Ireland...
03/07/2014
Applications open for national scheme to help Small Businesses trade online...
From today, 1 July 2014, small businesses throughout Ireland can apply to the government for digital vouchers to the system in helping their businesses trade online....
30/06/2014
Gothic Castle stages Business Picnic to make connections happen...
Duckett’s Grove Castle just outside Carlow Town will be the venue for the second Business Picnic being held on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 hosted by Carlow & Wexford Local Enterprise Offices and partners....
13/06/2014
Time to GROW your Business
ManagementWorks is an initiative from the State Company Skillnets, under the Governments Action Plan for Jobs, aimed at providing Owners Managers/Managers of Small and Medium size Businesses with practical, impactful programmes that will make a real difference to them and to that of their business....
13/06/2014
Minister Rabbitte rolls out whole of Government scheme to support local businesses trading online...
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D., this evening brought together Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) from around the country for the first time to upskill their Staff, Mentors and Business Advisors on the important aspects of small business trading online....
23/05/2014
New craft network launched in Carlow...
A new craft network, called FORM, was launched this week (14/05/2014) at a reception at VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. The network consists of 12 established designer makers, who create high quality home ware, gifts and wearable pieces. ...
14/04/2014
Local Enterprise Office opened for business...
The Local Enterprise Office is a new national resource, staffed with professional people with business training, to assist budding entrepreneurs and existing businesses in every county in Ireland....

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Case Studies

26/11/2020
Woodford Dolmen Hotel
Five years ago, one of Carlow’s longest-established hotels, the Woodford Dolmen, was in receivership. Today, despite the hardship of the lockdown and the difficulties faced by the hospitality sector, it has more than doubled its staff to 105 and added a fourth star to its rating certification....
26/11/2020
Rea's Department Store
Some businesses make a town, and Rea’s Department Store is one of them. A fixture of Bagenalstown since 1958, Rea’s has welcomed generations of shoppers for over half a century....
26/11/2020
Cullens Nurseries
Cullen Nurseries’ roots run old and deep. In 1994, owner Robert Cullen, fresh from Multyfarnham Agricultural College in Co Westmeath, began his own small-scale landscaping business with his father Peter. Soon the pair branched out into forestry and hedging....
26/11/2020
CIELS
People tend to think of family-run businesses as farms and corner shops, not language schools. For Danny Barron, however, teaching English is a family business, and one that’s scaling fast....
10/12/2019
Paint Hub
If blood is thicker than water, in the Gaynor family, paint is thicker still....
10/12/2019
Little Crew - PreStart
There’s an old-world charm to wooden toys. They’re sturdy and designed with care; they’re simple and straightforward, perfect for imagining and pretending; and unlike their mass-produced plastic counterparts, they don’t run out of batteries (or make noise)....
10/12/2019
Jo Browne
When asked how it all began, Jo Browne goes back to when she was 10 years old, recalling how her sister-in-law gave her a ‘solid’ perfume from Greece. She fell in love with it. She stayed loyal to solid perfume as she grew up and amassed a collection from all over the world....
10/12/2019
Equinox
Noel and Tomoko Doyle first met while studying in the UK. They began a relationship soon after and moved to Tomoko’s home country of Japan....
10/12/2019
Butlers Organic Eggs
A happier hen makes a fresher egg—that’s according to David and Paula Butler, the owners of Butler’s Organic Eggs, a Hacketstown-based chicken farm that specialises in the production of organic eggs....
21/12/2017
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