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Retail Window Merchandising Grant
The Retail Window Merchandising Grant provides financial support to retailers and businesses, in our town centres, to design and enhance their window displays. An attractive and inviting streetscape plays a pivotal role in enhancing the retail experience across County Kildare.
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Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week Birmingham
Visit the Smart Manufacturing and Engineering Week in Birmingham this June where change-makers can find insights, solutions & connections for their manufacturing & engineering projects.
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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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Digital for Business
Want to give your small business the digital edge?
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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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19/04/2024	Advanced Lean Program – Expression of Interest	Book online
23/04/2024	How to build your MVP	Book online
24/04/2024	EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – Visit Smart Manufacturing and Engineering Week in Birmingham...	Book online
30/04/2024	FOCUS ON CRAFT AND CREATIVE - Cost-Based Pricing	Book online
30/04/2024	FOCUS ON EXPORT - Growing your business through tailored connections and access to the BIGGEST business network in Europe with Susan Hayes Culleton, The Positive Economist...	Book online
01/05/2024	Supplier Tendering and E-tenders Training	Book online
02/05/2024	Understanding the Grant Process - 2nd May	Book online

Latest News

18/04/2024
Blas na nEireann - ENTER NOW!
18/04/2024
LISTEN HERE - The Entrepreneur Experiment with Gary Fox – Sponsored by the Local Enterprise Offices...
11/04/2024
APPLY NOW - KILDARE BUSINESS TO GET PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS CHANCE...
A small business from Kildare could be one of over 30 companies who get the chance to exhibit as part of this year’s Local Enterprise Village at the Ploughing Championships in September....
02/04/2024
EU Just Transition Fund Tourism Activator appointed at Kildare County Council...
22/03/2024
Kildare County Council calls on local producers to apply for 2024 Food Academy...
If you are a food or drink business with a product you believe merits a space on the shelves of one of Ireland’s leading retailers, then we would like to hear from you! ...
20/03/2024
InterTradeIreland Go-2-Tender workshops...
14/03/2024
Kildare Local Enterprise Week Event focuses on the Sustainability Imperative for Business Success...
Without our Planet Thriving, we Cannot Thrive – Liz Bonnin Meets Kildare’s Business Community...
12/03/2024
Kildare County Council launches Age Friendly programme at annual Pride of Premises Awards...
Kildare County Council has launched the Kildare Age Friendly Programme for 2024, in collaboration with Age Friendly Ireland, which aims to deliver a series of supports, training and accreditation to businesses to assist in the enhancement of age-friendliness county-wide....
12/03/2024
Kildare County Council to rollout Increased Cost of Business Grants...
As part of Budget 2024, the Government introduced a package of €257m for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) Grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses....
08/03/2024
Without our planet thriving, we cannot thrive – Liz Bonnin meets Kildare’s business community...
World renowned Natural History and Environmental broadcaster, Liz Bonnin addressed hundreds of businesses in the Riverbank Theatre in Newbridge and via national live stream on Thursday 7th March....
07/03/2024
MERITS hosts first ‘HACKTHECLIMATE’ Hackathon...
12-hours of idea generation, invention and business creation...
01/03/2024
KILDARE STUDENTS SET FOR 2024 NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINAL...
21/02/2024
20 events announced for Kildare’s Local Enterprise Week 2024...
Local Enterprise Week takes please from 4th – 8th March...
19/02/2024
Rural Business Advice Clinics to launch in Athy...
16/02/2024
Applications now open - Shop Front Improvement, Universal Accessibility and Age-Friendly Grant 2024 ...
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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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 ...