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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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21/04/2021	LE5117–Sales and Marketing Strategy-Unison Business Development Series 21 Apr 2021 ...	Book online
29/04/2021	LE5022 - Start Your Own Business - Self Directed & Coaching 29 Apr 2021...	Book online
05/05/2021	LE5117–BEGINNERS GUIDE TO SOCIAL MEDIA-Unison Business Development Series 05 May 2021...	Book online
12/05/2021	LE5117–Personal Effectiveness and Goal Setting–Unison Business Development Series 12 May 2021...	Book online
19/05/2021	LE5117–An SME Guide to Budgeting and Forecasting-Unison Business Development Series 19 May 2021...	Book online
26/05/2021	LE5117–Digital Marketing What Why and How - Unison Business Development Series 26 May 2021...	Book online
27/05/2021	LE5117-Video Production/Audio Production-Unison Business Development Series 27 May 2021...	Book online

Latest News

12/04/2021
Outdoor Seating and Accessories for Tourism & Hospitality Scheme Open...
The focus of this scheme is to provide a level of financial support to tourism and hospitality businesses, in our town centres, to purchase or upgrade equipment to provide additional outdoor seating and, therefore, increase their outdoor dining capacity for the summer of 2021. This scheme will financially assist and support independent tourism and hospitality business owners to create outdoor dining experiences in a regulated and accessible manner. Funding under the scheme is only available to existing businesses....
06/04/2021
Check into the Local Enterprise Office and check out the Unison Business Development & Support Series...
01/04/2021
Craft Hub – International Opening Conference
On 21st April 2021 at 12noon (Irish Time) the CraftHub project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, will host an Opening Conference to present the topics and the goals of this ambitious initiative focused on Craft in the context of European cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice. ...
29/03/2021
Common South East Priorities set out in first ever First Citizens Accord ...
The first-of-its-kind South East First Citizens Accord has created a Forum of the First Citizens from Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford who are coming together with the key goal of addressing the structural challenges faced by the South East. The region is particularly vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic having had the highest regional unemployment rate coming into the crisis. The Accord agrees on immediate common priorities for the region as a whole that can aid economic recovery coming out of the Covid-19 crisis and can address the historical imbalance in State funding and engagement with the South East...
26/03/2021
Call for applications for Festival & Event Funding for 2021 ...
Carlow County Council has this week announced details of its Community Festival and Events funding for 2021, supporting community organisations in the County to create experiences for visitors and locals. The supports this year will offer a combination of training and funding for eligible groups, and have a significant focus on commercial tourism benefit to support the reboot of the economy. ...
24/03/2021
CARLOW STUDENTS SET FOR NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINAL
Local Enterprise Office Carlow have announced that winning teenager entrepreneurs from Knockbeg College will represent Carlow at this year’s Student Enterprise Programme National Final on Friday 14th May. As with last year’s event the Final will take place virtually with approximately 80 finalist teams logging in all over the country. ...
23/03/2021
INAB accreditation brings competitive edge to County Carlow Company...
INAB accreditation brings competitive edge to County Carlow Company, 2eva ...
23/03/2021
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development Potato Market
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) Part XI Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) - Part 8 ...
23/03/2021
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development Visual Centre
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) Part XI Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) - Part 8 ...
19/03/2021
€25m Live Performance Support Scheme 2021 is now open for applications...
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., has opened the new €25m Live Performance Support Scheme for applications...
19/03/2021
County Finalists announced for Student Enterprise Programme Virtual Final...
Carlow County Council’s - Local Enterprise Office is delighted to announce the Finalists for this year’s Student Enterprise Programme 2020/21 representing five second level schools in County Carlow. The County Final will take place on Friday 24th March 2021 at 2pm, where the winners will be announced live on air. As with last year’s event the Final will take place virtually where Noel Davison, The Entrepreneurs Academy, will host the event. ...
16/03/2021
Retail Plus Enhancement Support Programme Launched...
Retail+ Programme is a combined Paint Scheme and Mentoring/Training Programme designed specifically for Retail....
15/03/2021
Council welcomes €9.79 million announcement under the Urban Regeneration & Development Fund for Project Carlow 2040...
€9.79 million has been awarded under the Urban Regeneration Development Fund (URDF) for key projects identified in Project Carlow 2040...
12/03/2021
New Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID (SBASC)
SBASC open for applications today (Thursday, 11th March) for the €60m Small Business Assistance Scheme for Covid. Closing date for receipt of applications is 21st April, 2021. ...
11/03/2021
Training & Business Development Programme Needs Analysis...
Framework for investment in focused capacity development of County Carlow Business Community published...
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
The Story behind our Clients
21/12/2017
Smyth and O'Reilly
Silver Spear Gin is the inaugural product by Artisan Irish Distillers Smyth & O’Reilly which they launched to market in 2017. The distillery is located at Ballydarton House in Carlow and it is run by Gavin O’Reilly and husband and wife team Charles and Dawn Smyth. The brand is built on an extremely interesting and unique history which adds authenticity, prov- idence and heritage to their brand story and with the support of Local Enterprise Off ice Carlow and others along the way they are now successfully exporting this fantastic artisan product internationally from their base here in Carlow....