LEO Dublin City has a broad range of supports that help Creative companies:
Mentoring
Each week we run a FREE Business Advice Clinic. Over two hours, an experienced Business Advisor explains the essentials of starting your own business. Bookings can be made here.
For more tailored support, our one to one mentoring programme connects you with an experienced business mentor to provide you with advice to suit your business needs. Each session offers you up to 3 hours contact time with a mentor, which can be made up of onsite/off site visit(s), email/telephone support or time guiding your research for your business. You can choose between one 3 hour (€10) or two 3 hour (€20) sessions. Applications can be made here.
Training
We offer a variety of training workshops and courses to support individuals starting a business.
Over 4/5 weeks, our Start Your Own Business course provides a comprehensive overview of what it takes to start your own business. On completion of the course participants will have developed the necessary skills and knowledge to assess the market and financial viability of their business idea/project.
In addition to this, we also run a number of workshops to develop entrepreneur’s skillsets and understanding. Topics include Marketing Strategy, Social Media & Digital Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Tax and Bookkeeping, intellectual property and export to name just some of the subjects covered.
In partnership with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) we also offer the Building Craft and Design Enterprise (BCDE) Programme. The BCDE Programme targets ambitious Craft and Design based businesses who want to inject new ideas and approaches to product development into their practices. If you wish to register your interest in the programme for 2020 you can do so here.
Through Dublin City Council’s Central Library we also run the Spring and Autimn series of free talks on the essentials of starting a business.
For more information and to make a booking visit https://www.localenterprise.ie/DublinCity/Training-Events/Online-Bookings/
Management Development Programmes
Register your interest and a business advisor will provide a holistic overview of your business and direct you to the most suitable supports e.g. financial management, intensive marketing, leadership programmes, consultancy, exports and grants advice.
Financial Supports
See what's available. Please read:
Types of grants
Eligibility criteria
If you believe you meet the criteria, the first stage of assessment is the Business support request form. It's a competitive process.
Feasibility grant
Staffing grants: Priming & Business Expansion
Market Explorer Grant (Trade fairs overseas)
Consultancy services
Networks
Networking is a valuable and productive activity for owner/managers. Networking puts you in contact with like-minded people whose experience and knowledge can help greatly in helping you solve the day-to-day problems of business and benefit from the opportunities that may arise.
