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Giving away money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
Bill Gates
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Assistance
Grants
Grant-aid, or other assistance, is a good thing. It can help your business to grow. Going through the application process, whether or not you are successful, will focus your planning. But don’t let the need to meet grant-givers’ criteria push your business where you don’t want to go.
Too often, entrepreneurs start by asking “Where will I get a grant?”.
Grants are not the aim of the business – your work on developing a strategy and a Mission Statement should tell you that. Grants are an extra, which may help you do something that you couldn’t otherwise have afforded. They come at the end of the financing process – not at the start of the planning process!
However, if grants – or better still, relevant training courses (as enterprise support agencies increasingly move towards "soft" supports – are available, take advantage.
AREA PARTNERSHIPS
Some Area Partnerships, though not all, offer grants. Those that do include:
ARTS COUNCIL
ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND
BORD IASCAIGH MHARA
BUSINESS INNOVATION LINK
COMMUNITY GROUPS
Some Community Groups, though not all, offer grants. Those that do include:
CO-OPERATION IRELAND
COUNTY & CITY ENTERPRISE BOARDS
See individual entries for:
CREATIVITY SEED FUND
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM - EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES CHILDCARE SECTION
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND FAMILY AFFAIRS
EMPOWER.ie
ENTERPRISE IRELAND
ENTERPRISE PLATFORM PROGRAMMES
See individual entries for:
FÁS
FINGAL EMPLOYEES YOUTH BUSINESS FUND
FINGLAS BUSINESS INITIATIVE
INTERTRADEIRELAND ACUMEN PROGRAMME
INVEST NORTHERN IRELAND
LEADER+
Not all LEADER Groups offer Grants. See individual entries for:
NORIBIC (BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTRE, DERRY)
NORTHERN IRELAND TOURIST BOARD
PRINCE’S TRUST NORTHERN IRELAND
SHANNON DEVELOPMENT
ÚDARÁS NA GAELTACHTA
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