And in turn created work for 700 more...
Every working day, an average of 23.4 new jobs
are being created through the Government’s main community-level, social
inclusion programme.
This is one of the unrivalled achievements of
the Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) as highlighted in a new
report by Pobal.
The 108-page ‘Supporting
Inclusion Through Self-Employment’ shows that the LCDP offers virtually
nationwide, start-to-finish support for unemployed people with good business
ideas.
As a result, over the past two years, close to
12,000 new jobs were created in Ireland by unemployed people with small
enterprise ideas:
- 10,726 were created by people who set up
small businesses;
- a further 717 jobs were created in turn by
them for others.
Remarkably, two-thirds of the enterprises have
got past the difficult first two years, the research demonstrates.
Approximately 8,000 of the jobs remain in existence at the present time, many
of the businesses are flourishing and new hopefuls are entering the marketplace
every day.
