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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.

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23/06/2021	LE5117–Pricing for Profit-Unison Business Development Series 23 Jun 2021...	Book online
23/06/2021	LE5117–Marketing-PR and Communications-Unison Business Development Series 23 Jun 2021...	Book online
24/06/2021	LE5003 - DUO Programme 24 June 2021	Book online
25/06/2021	LE5023 PowerHouse - Carlow Business Women's Network...	Book online
28/06/2021	LE5003 Sales Development Programme - Food-drink-tourism-hospitality in association with Carlow Tourism 28th June - BUSINESS TO CUSTOMER...	Book online
29/06/2021	LE5003 Sales Development Programme - Food-drink-tourism-hospitality in association with Carlow Tourism 29th June - BUSINESS TO BUSINESS...	Book online
07/07/2021	LE5117–Leadership in a Changing World – Unison Business Development Series 07/07/21 ...	Book online

Latest News

14/06/2021
Tánaiste Opens Funding Scheme to Help Businesses with Fixed Costs...
Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID (SBASC) open from today for applications from both SMEs & microenterprises
14/06/2021
POWERHOUSE Network Opportunities for Carlow Women in Business...
County Carlow has a new Women in Business Network called “Powerhouse” which is being co-ordinated by the team in Carlow County Council’s – Local Enterprise Office...
09/06/2021
New Sales Development Support announced for Food, Drink, Tourism and Hospitality businesses in County Carlow...
Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office in partnership with Carlow Tourism today launched the Sales Development Programme for County Carlow Food, Drink, Hospitality and Tourism businesses - to help them entice and welcome back their customers and optimize their revenue for the second half of 2021....
08/06/2021
Apply to be part of the Craft Hub activities....
Callout for County Carlow Craft makers, designers and creatives to apply for international opportunities....
01/06/2021
Carlow Creatives
Building Carlow's Creative Business - development programmes for artists and craft makers in Carlow....
01/06/2021
Wander off the Track
Kathryn Thomas encourages Irish Holidaymakers to "Wander off the Track" this summer...
01/06/2021
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development Enterprise Campus
Notice of Proposed Part 8 Development - Enterprise Campus, O'Brien Road, Carlow Town.
31/05/2021
Our Rural Future: Launch of Connected Hubs Network...
Our Rural Future: Minister Humphreys launches National Connected Hubs Network...
27/05/2021
Research finds that 30% of remote workers in the South East wish to Start their Own Business...
A South East study of 904 remote workers carried out by the South East Local Authorities and their Local Enterprise Offices....
25/05/2021
Carlow Town’s Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan 2021-2025...
Forum celebrates Launch of Carlow Town’s Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan 2021-2025...
10/05/2021
Local Enterprise Office Carlow encourages companies to avail of mentoring to support their business...
Carlow County Councils – Local Enterprise Office is encouraging Local Enterprises to apply for mentoring supports which provides individual guidance to companies to help guide and support their business development over the coming weeks and months as they navigate the new realities in the marketplace. To support this , the Local Enterprise Office has appointed a new specialist team of 77 mentors and advisors who are available to the over 2000 companies in County Carlow...
07/05/2021
Launch of the Borris Lace by Post Creativity in Older Age project...
Calling all crafters over 65 – would you like an opportunity to learn more about the craft of Borris Lacemaking? Carlow Arts Office and Creative Ireland Carlow is delighted to announce the launch of “The Borris Lace by Post Project” and we are inviting you to get involved! ...
06/05/2021
Call for innovative projects for Counties Towns & Villages for enhanced Town & Village Scheme 2021...
Carlow County Council is calling on community groups , business representative organisations and interested parties to be part of the call for innovative projects under the two measures for the Town & Village Renewal Scheme 2021 launched by Minister Humphreys this week. ...
21/04/2021
LOCAL ENTERPRISE OFFICES NOW SUPPORTING OVER 7,500 SMALL BUSINESSES AND 35,000 JOBS ACCORDING TO NEW FIGURES...
Today (21 April), The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar TD, announced the annual results of the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) for 2020 which showed that over 7,500 companies employing over 35,000 people are now supported by the LEOs...
12/04/2021
Outdoor Seating and Accessories for Tourism & Hospitality Scheme Open...
The focus of this scheme is to provide a level of financial support to tourism and hospitality businesses, in our town centres, to purchase or upgrade equipment to provide additional outdoor seating and, therefore, increase their outdoor dining capacity for the summer of 2021. This scheme will financially assist and support independent tourism and hospitality business owners to create outdoor dining experiences in a regulated and accessible manner. Funding under the scheme is only available to existing businesses....
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....