Projects & Practice

Setting up a grocery and a social café to support people with intellectual disabilities enter the job market and gain their independence.  

An integrated, community focussed model for quality meat production based on short supply chains, working together, and exchanging experiences between consumers and producers.

Helping a new type of rural enterprise that can support a transition towards a green, diversified rural economy. Coillte Sláintiúil provides services to protect, rejuvenate and replace native woodlands.

An initiative to sensitise companies in the Northern Eifel region to the problem of management succession at an early stage.

A Local Action Group (LAG) helps coordinate the climate and energy strategies of its municipalities.

An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.

A series of seminars to improve the economic performance and viability of agricultural enterprises,  by offering information and training on risk management tools.

The GrowBiz approach to enterprise support is based on building long-term relationships with businesses and encouraging them to connect, collaborate, share and network with other enterprises in their local community and further afield.

Many small towns have the problem of vacant sales spaces and an innovative concept  to revitalise city centres is to offer flexible rental options to pop-up shops. This was the winning initiative of the 2019 Rural Inspiration Awards in the 'Popular Vote' category.

A family business, with a long-standing tradition of producing denim clothing, used support from the LEADER measure to establish a modern workshop and increase its share in domestic and international markets.