Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys (above left) and Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment Richard Bruton; The Trading Online Voucher Scheme
This afternoon.
Government Buildings, Dublin 2.
The Trading Online Voucher Scheme to ‘help small and micro enterprises get online quickly’ is to be expanded.
Via RTÉ:
There were 1,218 applications for the scheme last year, but the scheme saw 3,962 applications from the middle of March to early June of this year alone.
Under the scheme, small businesses can claim up to €5,000 in two grants worth €2,500 each.
It also facilitates subscriptions to low-cost online retailing platform solutions to quickly establish a retailing presence online.
Trading online voucher scheme to be expanded amid strong demand (RTÉ)
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hey lads, ye should do a feature on this – someone found fenn’s treasure
https://youtu.be/s812bfEdXP4
Irish retailers were, by international standards, very slow to get online. At least one positive out of this is they will finally catch up with the rest of the planet.
#thanksBlueshirts
Yep – a good idea. The only reservation I’d have is that the Leo’s are dishing it out – Local Enterprise Offices. Funding seems to be snapped up quickly by the same old faces when the LEO’s are involved in money distribution. Secretive about when the funds come into the LEO, and when you apply it’s ‘sorry all the funding has been used up this time – there won’t be any more until January/February’ yet reports in local press reveal that it’s the same businesses who get funding time after time. Obviously tipped off about the arrival of funds.
It’s notable that the LEO’s don’t list the beneficiaries of their grant support.