Is your business eligible for financial support?

Kerry Local Enterprise Office provides a range of financial supports to qualifying small businesses based in Kerry employing 10 or less employees. Enterprise projects eligible for support are :

• Businesses engaged in manufacturing
• Internationally traded services (details of overseas customers)
• Innovative projects with export potential (this must be outlined in the application)
• Innovative local services
• Professional services, consultancy, retail and distribution are not eligible

Businesses must also:

• be in the commercial sphere, that is profit oriented businesses
• be capable of attaining economic viability
• demonstrate a commercial market for their proposed product or service
• have adequate overall finance available to the project (detail in your application how you will fund the business)
• have the necessary management and technical skills
• have capacity for growth and new job creation
• have potential for export, please outline in your application
• full time commercial businesses
• not employ more than 10 people
• NOT be Enterprise Ireland clients and not in receipt of Enterprise Ireland funding.
• Business can transfer from Enterprise Ireland portfolio to the Local Enterprise Office portfolio. There is a strong referral process.