Useful Guides for Start-Ups

Here at Local Enterprise Office Galway, we are ready to support you and your new business in whatever way we can.

Here are some useful guides & documents to get you started - click to download.

• A guideline for writing your Business Plan
• Info from the Companies Registrations Office (www.cro.ie) about registering your business name officially
• Info from the Companies Registration Office about company incorporation
• A TR1 Form from the Revenue Commissioners, for registering your business tax affairs (www.revenue.ie)
• A guide to starting your own business published by the Revenue Commissioners
• A 10 Step Guide to starting your own business

At LEO Galway, we run many Training Courses in Business Skills including start your own business courses.

Details of our current programmes as well as a booking facility are available here

We also have a number of financial supports available - specific criteria apply, so if you are manufacturing or doing most of your business outside Ireland, please get in touch with us soon. You can find out about our various financial supports here

If you have a look at the eligibility criteria for LEO funding and feel you do not qualify, please take a look at the loan packages available from Microfinance Ireland which is open to businesses who have been refused funding from banks and who are not eligible for assistance from us directly. Should you be interested in applying then we will assist you with making an application.