Support for new businesses
Carrickfergus Enterprise offers a comprehensive range of
initiatives designed to assist those who want to start or grow
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The Go for it Programme is dessigned to help you start your
own business. It provides you with a bespoke package of
training, advice workshops and a knowledge team who can
can help you put your ideas into action.
Early Stage Entrepreneurs
Business Start-up
Training and Workshops
Business Clinics
One to one mentoring
Other business support programmes
Carrickfergus Enterprise currently offers the Business
Improvement Programme to those business located within the
the Carrickfergus Borough.
The programme consists of the following elements: |
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Grow your own Business Programme
(Business Mentoring) |
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Iconnect (ICT Mentoring) |
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Business Focus Seminars
(Business Seminars) |
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Celebration of Enterprise
(Networking Event) |
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Dungannon Enterprise Centre is the local delivery agent for
the Tradelinks Programme.
The Tradelinks programme is designed to assist
micro-enterprises across Northern Ireland and the border
counties of Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo and
Donegal by: |
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Enhancing employment generation
opportunities |
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Developing exporting capability |
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Addressing barriers to cross
border trade |
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Investigating opportunities
afforded by new product
development |
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Encouraging innovation |
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Tradelinks is a partnership initiative between Enterprise NI, the
network of local enterprise agencies, and the Border County
Enterprise boards and is supported by the EU Interreg 111A
Programme for Ireland/Northern Ireland, Invest NI, the
International Fund for Ireland and the Department of Enterprise,
Trade and Employment.
Benefits of the programme include: |
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Suite of programmes specifically
designed to address issues unique
to micro-enterprise sector |
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Team of experienced assessors
and mentors |
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Opportunity to form linkages and
clusters with similar micro
enterprises |
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Signposting service to other
programmes |
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