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Donegal County Council Annual Report 2019
Local Enterprise Office Donegal
The Local Enterprise Office manages and delivers on:
Local Enterprise Office
A summary of the outputs from the range of activities funded by the Dept. of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and delivered by the Local Enterprise Office during the year are given in Table 1 below.
Metric
Output
LEO Client Portfolio Businesses (grant -sided businesses)
239
Total portfolio employment
1,331
Net Jobs increase in 2019
+57
No of projects grant aided
41
Amount of grant aid approved
€663,555
Number of Training events/programmes/workshops
69
Number of participants at these training events
2,532
Clients receiving Mentoring
106
Number of Schools In Schools Enterprise Programme (SEP)
22
Number of Students participating in SEP
1,261
Number of Trading Online Vouchers approved
42
Recorded Client engagements
716
Table 1 Local Enterprise Office Donegal Outputs 2019
Key core activities revolved around the provision of grant aid, the delivery of training and capability programmes, the promotion of entrepreneurship and enterprise development, awareness and training events around Brexit, facilitating existing networks including engineering cluster under the ProfitNet model, the Food Coast, the Creative Coast and the fashion & design cluster and support to the Donegal Women in Business Network which celebrated its 20 years birthday during 2019.
Key activities to drive entrepreneurship during 2019 were Enterprise Week in March, the Schools Enterprise Programme run from the previous September with the final in April, Irelands Best Young Entrepreneur, National Women’s Enterprise Day in October and the Donegal Business Awards in December.