Please Note: 

Priority will be given to Longford Businesses and Individuals. 

To proceed with your registration and attendance on online courses, Longford Local Enterprise Office is required to share your email address with external course facilitators. If you would prefer that your email address is not shared, please let us know immediately and we will remove your registration.

Further information on how your Local Enterprise Office process personal data can be found on Localenterprise.ie/Longford/GDPR or you can also visit Longford County Council’s website at Data Protection - LongfordCoCo 

Start Your Own Business Course

Ever thought of setting up your own business? Has your employment been impacted by Covid-19? Maybe now is the time to take a Start Your Own Business Course with Longford LEO.

When and Where Does the Start Your Own Business Course Take Place?

This course is entirely online and takes place over five weeks - two evenings per week:  Mondays & Thursdays - 16th, 19th, 23rd, 26th, 30th January and 2nd, 9th & 13th February - 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Course Objectives:

• To assist participants in assessing the viability of their business idea, and to gauge their own suitability to running their own business
• To understand and anticipate the difficulties, strategic, financial and otherwise, in establishing and running a business
• How to write and maintain a business plan
• How to understand the financial issues such as raising money, managing cashflow and taxation
• Enable participants to acquire the skills to effectively market and sell their business in an effective and efficient way

Outline Syllabus

The syllabus above will give participants a broad introduction to the skills and competencies needed to launch and run a successful business. Whilst some topics are obviously a requirement such as taxation, time is also allocated to building competitive advantage and using creativity to help make their business stand out.