Profile
Banbridge District Enterprises Limited (BDEL) focuses on the development of economic wealth in the Banbridge area and beyond. BDEL offers training programmes to new and existing small businesses. It also supports businesses by providing tailor-made offices, industrial workspaces and services, including conference facilities, training and consultancy. Its new high specification ICT suite will soon be opened for use by local social economy groups and businesses.

Programmes and Services

• Enterprise Northern Ireland Loan Fund
  This fund was established to make funding more accessible to new and existing small businesses. BDEL can offer businesses a loan of £500+ through this fund. It also provides advice on cash-flow and other business issues.

• Enterprise Northern Ireland South Eastern Region
  Through this consortium, BDEL delivers a number of business development programmes aimed at assisting and supporting micro-businesses to improve their competitiveness. These programmes are delivered on behalf of the South East Economic Development (SEED) group, which consists of six councils located in the south east region of Northern Ireland.

• Green Entrepreneurs
  This programme aims to support businesses that want to exploit environmental opportunities. It forms part of the EU’s Leonardo programme and is a resource tool, which provides interactive information and training materials for new and existing businesses.

• Start a Business
  This programme aims to encourage enterprising ideas through providing professional support and guidance on getting a new business up and running. It has been designed to support all types of new business ventures.

• Tradelinks
  This programme aims to assist the micro-enterprise sector by offering a suite of sub-programmes to businesses that want to develop their exporting capability, cross-border trade, new technology and innovation. Funded by the EU’s INTERREG IIIA Programme, Invest NI, International Fund for Ireland (IFI) and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI), it operates across Northern Ireland and the border counties.

Contact:
Banbridge District Enterprises Ltd
Scarva Road Industrial Estate, Banbridge, Co. Down BT32 3QD 
T: 028 4066 2260
W: www.bdelonline.com