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National Women's Enterprise Day
Scheduled for 17th October 2024, this year's theme, "Girls Just Wanna Have Funds!" focuses on equipping women with the knowledge and resources they need to successfully secure funding or investment to start or scale their businesses.
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National Women's Enterprise Day
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Grow Digital
Take a free 5-minute assessment today to reveal how ‘digitally ready’ your business is and receive your bespoke digital scorecard with advice, recommendations and supports that can help you to take the next step towards digitalisation.
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All in a Day's Work
Retail Window Merchandising Grant
We offer grants for accessories, internal displays, backdrops, lighting, and shelving to make your window stand out from the crowd. Themed windows are a great way to create a buzz and bring the spirit of the festival alive on the streetscape. Our support will help you create a standout window feature
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Shopfront Improvement, Universal Accessibility and Age Friendly Grant Scheme
Kildare County Council established the Shop Front Improvement, Universal Accessibility & Age Friendly Grant as part of its Retail Support Scheme to financially assist and support independent business owners to improve the appearance of their shop fronts or commercial properties.
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Energy Efficiency Grant
NEXT STEPS IN YOUR SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY
Green for Business
The Green for Business programme will help small businesses CUT COSTS and prepare for the more resource-efficient economy of the future. This is a FREE programme, available to companies with up to ten employees.
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Lean for Business
Helping prepare small businesses for the low carbon, more resource efficient economy of the future
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Upcoming Events

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09/10/2024	FOCUS ON EQUINE - Financial Governance for Early Stage and Developing Equestrian Businesses...	Book online
09/10/2024	Start Your Own Business Programme - begins 9th October...	Book online
10/10/2024	Grow Digital Introduction Briefing	Book online
14/10/2024	Tax and Bookkeeping - 14th & 17th October	Book online
16/10/2024	Innovation Voucher Briefing - Access Technical Research worth €10,000...	Book online
17/10/2024	FOCUS ON LEAN - Implementation of Daily Management Systems and Tiered Meetings at Novo Nordisk...	Book online
17/10/2024	National Women's Enterprise Day 2024	Book online

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Case Studies

01/02/2024
Aisling's Taste of Home
The best piece of advice about running a business? This one is from my lovely Dad. His mantra was always "Tóg go bog é"...
17/05/2023
Kildare Brewing Company - Award winning local beer...
19/04/2023
SIÓG Botanicals - The Flower Preservation Specialists...
'Be sustainable - or forget about it!'
17/08/2022
Faerly - Irish eCommerce Website of The Year...
The online shop for sustainable living had a superb night at the Irish Ecommerce Awards - winning 3 categories and named Irish eCommerce Website of the Year ...
17/08/2022
Lynam Painting - Lean for Micro
See how LEAN helped Lynam Painting Ltd renovate their systems....
14/03/2022
Duck Blue - Creating 'Cards you want to keep'...
Creating 'Cards you want to keep' sold in retail up and down the country....
11/03/2022
Vanessa Ree - Contemporary Fine Jewellery Design ...
Vanessa's mantra for business and for life is 'everything is workable-outable!'...
01/07/2021
Meet the Craft Businesses of Kildare
Kildare Local Enterprise Office works closely with the craft and design sector in county Kildare, providing practical business support to new and existing makers, creators and artists. ...
09/08/2020
The Nude Wine Company - Wine as Nature Intended
The Nude Wine Company specialises in award winning organic, natural and vegan wines, and provides an engaging and dynamic experience for those who buy wine online and want to learn more. ...
14/06/2020
Digital-Motorsports.com - Kildare Good News - Covid 19
Digital-Motorsports.com build world-class racing simulators and provide the best online racing services in Ireland. The seriousness of COVID-19 has resulted in nearly every Motorsport event being postponed globally. Digital-Motorsports.com was on hand and ready to provide a solution which enables drivers to stay home and race without breaching any social distancing. ...
31/05/2020
Prokulture Kombucha - Kildare Good News - Covid 19
Based in Sallins, County Kildare, Barry Flanagan and Rob Rainsford hand craft small batch Organic Kombuchas and have recently been accepted to the Aldi Grow Programme 2020, with two products from ProKulture Organic Kombucha. ...
25/05/2020
Babogue Sleep Solutions - Kildare Good News - Covid 19
Babogue Sleep Solutions is a Sleep Consultancy service provided by Certified Child Sleep Consultant Erica Hargaden.
17/04/2020
PS Coffee Roasters - Kildare Good News - Covid 19
Our next good news story comes from brothers Peter and Simon from PS Coffee Roasters. Winner of the Gold standard Going Plastic Free award 2020. The company imports and roasts high speciality grade coffee that is bagged into Ireland's first fully customised compostable bags. PS Coffee Roasters supply to wholesale and retail customers and operate two cafes in Kildare. ...
17/04/2020
Lonergan Group - Kildare Good News - Covid 19
Lonergan Group are specialists in strategic gifting, based in Celbridge, County Kildare. In response to Covid-19, CEO Louise Lonergan has acted fast and diversified her business. She is now supplying Health & Safety products to support her clients in looking after their staff and customers. ...
16/12/2019
Equine MediRecord
Kildare leads the way with global innovations in the equine industry ...