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Local Enterprise Week 2021
Are you interested in setting up your own business or are you already in business and looking at ways to improve your business? Local Enterprise week 2021 runs from 1st to 5th March
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#LookForLocal
If we all #LookForLocal in Carlow this winter, we’ll be helping local businesses and supporting jobs in local communities
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CHANGE IS HERE
Is your business #BrexitReady? Please click the button below to find all of the #Brexit supports available for your business.
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Brexit Back in Focus for Ireland's Small Businesses
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Welcome to The Local Enterprise Office Carlow

Please note that in the Interest of Public Health & Safety – Carlow - Local Enterprise Office is operating its services remotely and only conducting essential business Face to Face.

For an appointment to meet a Business Advisor please contact enterprise@Carlowcoco.ie or call 059-9129783

The public counter is open in Enterprise House from 11am-1pm & 2pm-3pm on Monday-Friday (Excluding Bank Holidays) for the scheduling of appointments only.

Upcoming Events

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11/03/2021	Lunch & Learn - Innovation Supports for the Business Community in County Carlow...	Book online
23/03/2021	LE6022 - Start Your Own Business - Group Workshop 23 Mar 2021...	Book online
12/04/2021	LE6021 Kickstart Your Own Business in association with Carlow County Development Partnership & County Carlow Libraries 12 Apr 2021...	Book online
29/04/2021	LE5022 - Start Your Own Business - Self Directed & Coaching 29 Apr 2021...	Book online
27/05/2021	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 27th May 2021	Book online
07/06/2021	LE6021 Kickstart Your Own Business in association with Carlow County Development Partnership & County Carlow Libraries 7 Jun 2021...	Book online
08/06/2021	LE6022 - Start Your Own Business - Group Workshop 08 Jun 2021...	Book online

Latest News

08/03/2021
Partnership approach to kickstarting new business ideas...
Carlow Local Enterprise Office is launching a new round of Kickstart Your Business and Start Your Own Business programmes designed to support people in their journey to develop profitable businesses....
03/03/2021
CARLOW’S BUSINESSES ENCOURAGED TO GO GREEN WITH NEW PROGRAMME...
Carlow’s small businesses are being encouraged to become more sustainable this year following the launch of a new programme to green your business was launched this week by the Local Enterprise Offices as part of Local Enterprise Week....
24/02/2021
Love Carlow, promoting Carlow business online and offline...
County Carlow Chamber of Commerce is focused on helping Carlow businesses in connecting with customers, partners, suppliers, and communities...
18/02/2021
MarkingItHappen - Local Enterprise Week goes virtual for 2021!...
Local Enterprise Week is organised every year by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices across the country and all events are taking place virtually from Monday, 1 March to Friday, 5th March....
12/02/2021
DOUBLE WIN FOR COUNTY CARLOW AT NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AWARDS...
Killian Doyle of Irish Fluid Control and David Walsh of Netwatch & Halocare who are supported by Local Enterprise Office (Carlow) were winners at this year’s National Enterprise Awards. The awards, which took place virtually were broadcast online from the Mansion House in Dublin, are in their 22nd year and run annually by the Local Enterprise Offices....
09/02/2021
Business Seminar Series aims to ensure business community continues to access supports...
Carlow County Council’s – Local Enterprise Office , Institute of Technology Carlow and County Carlow Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to deliver a series of seminars over the coming four weeks to ensure that companies are aware of the supports that are available to them post Brexit and also to assist with planning for the economic challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. The seminar series kicks off on 16th February 2021 and runs for 4 weeks....
04/02/2021
Walsh receives Inaugural National Enterprise Award...
WALSH RECEIVES INAUGURAL NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AWARDS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT HONOUR...
01/02/2021
Carlow Exchange, Potato Market, Carlow...
Carlow County Council are currently in the process of developing a covered open space in the centre of Carlow Town at Potato Market, in the old Tully’s Yard, called The Carlow Exchange....
29/01/2021
Social Enterprise Development Fund 2021
Social Enterprises called on to apply to €400,000 fund to address Ireland’s greatest social challenges.
22/01/2021
CARLOW’S IRISH FLUID CONTROLS HOPING FOR GLORY AT NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AWARDS...
One of Carlow’s most impressive businesses, Irish Fluid Controls (Chemfeed) Ltd have been announced as a finalist for this year’s National Enterprise Awards. The awards, an initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices, will take place virtually on the 11th February....
08/01/2021
Seven County Carlow projects to benefit from Town and Village Renewal Scheme...
23/12/2020
“Play your part in Unearthing the Taste of Carlow by sharing your unique Carlow food and drink story”...
As part of the continued collaborative development of the Food & Drink Sector, Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office has opened a call for applications to Carlow food and drink stakeholders to be included in a food and drink experience guide that maps out the unique Taste In Carlow....
22/12/2020
TASTE in Carlow
Play your part in Unearthing the Taste in Carlow by participating in this Carlow Taste Trail map and guide that showcases the UNIQUE taste and character of Carlow's food and drink scene....
22/12/2020
€16.8 million of supports delivered by Council in 2020
A total of €16.8m in supports have been provided by Carlow County Council to the business community for business support and economic development projects in 2020,...
21/12/2020
Furniture & Design Bagenalstown win €4,000 worth of advertising with KCLR...
Press Release for Immediate Release – 19th December 2020 - Furniture & Design Bagenalstown win €4,000 worth of advertising with KCLR as part of Local Enterprise Office Business Box Programme...
04/09/2014
Local Enterprise Office Launches New Loan Partnership
The Local Enterprise Office Carlow is teaming up with Microfinance Ireland, to launch a new type of loan support aimed at the small business community in the region....
18/08/2014
Showcase 2015
Local Enterprise Office –Carlow is seeking expressions of interest from clients engaged in the craft, design and gift sector interested in taking a stand in the Enterprise Zone at Showcase 18th – 21st January 2015. ...
14/08/2014
New Frontiers Programme 2014
Waterford Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Carlow are currently recruiting for their next New Frontiers Programme....
25/07/2014
Form Group to Exhibit at Kilkenny Arts Festival...
FORM is a group of designer makers and craftspeople living and working in the Carlow region of Ireland...
03/07/2014
Applications open for national scheme to help Small Businesses trade online...
From today, 1 July 2014, small businesses throughout Ireland can apply to the government for digital vouchers to the system in helping their businesses trade online....
30/06/2014
Gothic Castle stages Business Picnic to make connections happen...
Duckett’s Grove Castle just outside Carlow Town will be the venue for the second Business Picnic being held on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 hosted by Carlow & Wexford Local Enterprise Offices and partners....
13/06/2014
Time to GROW your Business
ManagementWorks is an initiative from the State Company Skillnets, under the Governments Action Plan for Jobs, aimed at providing Owners Managers/Managers of Small and Medium size Businesses with practical, impactful programmes that will make a real difference to them and to that of their business....
13/06/2014
Minister Rabbitte rolls out whole of Government scheme to support local businesses trading online...
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D., this evening brought together Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) from around the country for the first time to upskill their Staff, Mentors and Business Advisors on the important aspects of small business trading online....
23/05/2014
New craft network launched in Carlow...
A new craft network, called FORM, was launched this week (14/05/2014) at a reception at VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. The network consists of 12 established designer makers, who create high quality home ware, gifts and wearable pieces. ...
14/04/2014
Local Enterprise Office opened for business...
The Local Enterprise Office is a new national resource, staffed with professional people with business training, to assist budding entrepreneurs and existing businesses in every county in Ireland....

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Case Studies

26/11/2020
Woodford Dolmen Hotel
Five years ago, one of Carlow’s longest-established hotels, the Woodford Dolmen, was in receivership. Today, despite the hardship of the lockdown and the difficulties faced by the hospitality sector, it has more than doubled its staff to 105 and added a fourth star to its rating certification....
26/11/2020
Rea's Department Store
Some businesses make a town, and Rea’s Department Store is one of them. A fixture of Bagenalstown since 1958, Rea’s has welcomed generations of shoppers for over half a century....
26/11/2020
Cullens Nurseries
Cullen Nurseries’ roots run old and deep. In 1994, owner Robert Cullen, fresh from Multyfarnham Agricultural College in Co Westmeath, began his own small-scale landscaping business with his father Peter. Soon the pair branched out into forestry and hedging....
26/11/2020
CIELS
People tend to think of family-run businesses as farms and corner shops, not language schools. For Danny Barron, however, teaching English is a family business, and one that’s scaling fast....
10/12/2019
Paint Hub
If blood is thicker than water, in the Gaynor family, paint is thicker still....
10/12/2019
Little Crew - PreStart
There’s an old-world charm to wooden toys. They’re sturdy and designed with care; they’re simple and straightforward, perfect for imagining and pretending; and unlike their mass-produced plastic counterparts, they don’t run out of batteries (or make noise)....
10/12/2019
Jo Browne
When asked how it all began, Jo Browne goes back to when she was 10 years old, recalling how her sister-in-law gave her a ‘solid’ perfume from Greece. She fell in love with it. She stayed loyal to solid perfume as she grew up and amassed a collection from all over the world....
10/12/2019
Equinox
Noel and Tomoko Doyle first met while studying in the UK. They began a relationship soon after and moved to Tomoko’s home country of Japan....
10/12/2019
Butlers Organic Eggs
A happier hen makes a fresher egg—that’s according to David and Paula Butler, the owners of Butler’s Organic Eggs, a Hacketstown-based chicken farm that specialises in the production of organic eggs....
21/12/2017
The Story behind our Clients
21/12/2017
Smyth and O'Reilly
Silver Spear Gin is the inaugural product by Artisan Irish Distillers Smyth & O’Reilly which they launched to market in 2017. The distillery is located at Ballydarton House in Carlow and it is run by Gavin O’Reilly and husband and wife team Charles and Dawn Smyth. The brand is built on an extremely interesting and unique history which adds authenticity, prov- idence and heritage to their brand story and with the support of Local Enterprise Off ice Carlow and others along the way they are now successfully exporting this fantastic artisan product internationally from their base here in Carlow....