Green for Business Consultancy Programme:
Apply for mentoring with a specialist Green Consultant – this will include recommendations on specific changes which your business can implement. Your specific needs will be matched to the Green Consultant’s area of expertise. Your Consultant will prepare a detailed Green for Business Report on your business.
As a business owner, you’ll understand the growing importance of sustainability, both in business and in the world around us. What you may not understand are the significant benefits that it can have for your company, on everything from efficiencies to cost savings.
Green for Business is a FREE programme that helps small businesses take the first step towards becoming more sustainable, giving you access to a green consultant who’ll show you the small changes that can have a big impact on your company - and the world around you.
Benefits of Developing a Greener Policy Include:
- Increased cost savings
- Improved resource efficiency (e.g., reduced energy, water, and material usage)
- Lower environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions
- Enhanced value of products and services
- Greater customer access, improved corporate image, and reputation
- Increased resilience to climate change impacts
Competition Details: All eligible entrants will receive a Green for Business voucher and a chance to access a 75% grant towards implementing green initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Open to enterprises with 1-50 employees (excluding certain industries, such as primary agricultural businesses, gambling, adult entertainment, tobacco, and unauthorized cannabis products)
- The business must be established, registered, and operating within the geographic location of the Local Enterprise Office
- The business must operate in the commercial sphere, with an annual turnover exceeding €30,000 and have been trading for more than six months
- Companies that are part of a holding group, franchise, or linked companies are limited to one application
Ineligible Businesses
- Are operating solely from a domestic/home based office.
- Companies with charitable status, commercial semi-state companies, “not for profit” organisations – which do not meet the above criteria, trade associations, company representation bodies such as Chambers of Commerce, Sporting Bodies – which do not meet the above criteria and other non-commercial bodies or associations are not eligible to avail of the Small Capital Grants.
- Are operating in the coal or steel sector.
- Are active in the primary agricultural, fishery or aquaculture sectors.
- * Are involved in activities that Local Enterprise Offices considers as ineligible or as involving an unacceptable reputational risk. Ineligible activities include activities relating to:
- The gambling sector, including ‘gaming’ (as defined in the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956).
- Adult entertainment.
- Tobacco and tobacco related products.
- Cannabis-based products which are not authorised as medicines.
Note: Your business must be located within the catchment area of LEO Carlow.