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.