Feature image for Offaly LEADER Development Company webpage. Shows community collaboration on rural development projects with a map, set against an Irish rural backdrop. Includes LEADER 'Development led by local communities' branding (EU emblem, leaf icon)
  • **Suggested alt text:** “Cover graphic for the New Product Development Programme 2026, featuring a portrait of Eddie Shanahan alongside photographs of textiles, crafts, jewellery making and artisan food , with logos for local development and European funding programmes.”

    Product Development Programme with Eddie Shanahan

    Are you looking to develop a new product, refresh an existing product range, strengthen your brand or identify new market opportunities? The Create Green Product Development Programme with Eddie Shanahan is a practical, hands-on programme designed to support Offaly-based SMEs and individuals working across the Creative Industries and Artisan speciality food sectors.

  • Promotional graphic for Offaly Local Development Company announcing the LEADER Targeted Call 2026. The top of the image features the Offaly Local Development Company logo and the LEADER programme logo. The centre displays the headline "TARGETED CALL 2026" above a photograph of a podcast-style microphone on a desk beside an open laptop and headphones. The website www.oldc.ie appears at the bottom, alongside the logos of the Government of Ireland, Project Ireland 2040, Our Rural Future, and the European Union.

    Targeted Call 2026

    Targeted Call 2026 offers €83,000 in LEADER funding to support Community/Voluntary groups, Social Enterprises and Networks who would like improve their IT and audio-visual equipment.

  • Radharc álainn den ghrian ag éirí/ag dul faoi thar loch nó abhainn ciúin, le ceo éadrom. Tá an téacs “TARGETED CALL / GLAO SPRIOCDHÍRITHE” os cionn an radhairc, agus lógónna “Offaly Local Development Company” agus maoiniú an AE agus Rialtas na hÉireann thíos

    Glao Spriocdhírithe 2025

    Tugann Glao Spriocdhírithe 2025 maoiniú LEADER €90,000 do Scéimeanna Ghrúpa Uisce agus Grúpaí Pobail/Deonacha chun costais fuinnimh a laghdú agus aghaidh a thabhairt ar an athrú aeráide trí thionscadail chaipitil amhail suiteáil painéal gréine.

  • Targeted Call 2025

    Targeted Call 2025 offers €90,000 in LEADER funding to support Group Water Schemes and Community/Voluntary Groups in reducing energy costs and addressing climate change through capital projects like solar panel installation.

  • Scenic photo of a sunset over a body of water with reeds, used as a header image for Offaly Local Development Company's TARGETED CALLS announcement.

    Targeted Call 2024

    Targeted Call 2024 offers €75,000 in LEADER funding to Community/Voluntary Groups for rural environment projects, focusing on climate mitigation and reducing overheads through sustainable water usage and energy conservation initiatives.

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