The Liffey Trust Centre
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The Liffey Trust Centre
With it’s motto in mind the Liffey Trust was founded in 1984 to help potential entrepreneurs and community groups to become established.
We are a voluntary organisation that formed with the conscious decision to finance our activities and develop the Liffey Trust Centre by our own efforts and not with any government help. At the Liffey Trust we are proud of our success in achieving this and becoming financially self-sufficient.
In the past 30 years, we have helped over 200 businesses find their feet creating jobs for over 1,000 people.

Dr. Séamus McDermott
Founder
Seamus is the founder and Director General of the Liffey Trust. He has helped more than three hundred small businesses to be established throughout Ireland.
The Dr. Séamus McDermott Scholarship for Entrepreneurship
The Séamus McDermott Entrepreneurial Scholarship has the principal purpose of promoting the concepts of job creation, entrepreneurial development and education for life, in the minds of undergraduate students commencing their studies in University College Dublin.
The Liffey Trust Services
The Trust has identified the needs of entrepreneurs which were not catered for by the existing help agencies.
It provides the following services nationwide:
- It prepare Business Plans, Feasibility Studies, and Grant Applications, free of charge.
- It advises on ways and means of raising finance to help persons setting up their own business.
- It provides guidance on the way to set up accountancy and control systems for new businesses.
- It provides management consultancy for the first year.
- It provides free marketing consultancy for the first year.
- It provides work space if available in Dublin with reduced rent for new businesses while they are being established.
- We take care of the bureaucratic procedures.
- We help a new business to decide its legal structure; to become registered; to obtain a VAT number; to register for PAYE and PRSI and to obtain sub-contractors numbers
- It provides working space (retail, commercial, Food Kitchens and services accommodation) with reduced rent for new businesses while they are being established.
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The Food Hub

The marketplace area of The Liffey Trust houses 10 purpose-built kitchens. The Food Hub is currently the home to the food production units of some of the finest eateries & catering companies in Dublin such as Sushi King, The Bakehouse, Lolly and Cooks, Caffe Parigi, Kokoro Sushi Bento, Urban Picnic, Drop Chef, Airbnb, Let’s Eat & Las Tapas de Lola.
For more information send us an email to info@liffeytrust.ie.
The Liffey Trust Centre
Progress
In its Enterprise Centre in Dublin, the Trust has units which it lets to small enterprises that are established and also to startups. To date, the Trust has helped more than 200 enterprises creating employment for approximately 800 persons.
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Objectives of the Trust
It identified the immediate and urgent requirements of new businesses and it therefore provides the following services:
It helps prepare business plans, feasibility studies and grant applications, free of charge. It advises on ways and means of raising finance and provides guidance on how to set up accountancy and control systems and provides free management and marketing consultancy. It takes care of bureaucratic procedures, helping new enterprises to choose their legal structure, register for PRSI, PAYE and VAT and obtain, if required, sub-contractors certificates.
Latest News from The Liffey Trust Centre
Recipient of The Dr. McDermott Scholarship at UCD Announced.
The Liffey Trust is delighted to announce awardee Adam Black (Engineering, Year 1) as this years recipient of The Dr. Séamus Mc Dermott Entrepreneurial Scholarship for University College Dublin. The Liffey Trust provides yearly scholarships to undergraduate students...
Connacht Tribune honours Dr. McDermott’s dedication to others
The Connacht Tribune gives recognition to the Founder of The Liffey Trust and Galway native, Dr. Séamus Mc Dermott on his dedication to others. Séamus McDermott has had a life-long passion for supporting and encouraging entrepreneurs. Séamus founded the Liffey Trust...
Formula 1 Motor Racing in Dublin Inner City 1992 Proposal
In 1992, The Liffey Trust in pursuit of its objectives of Job Creation researched a number of projects deemed likely to generate wealth and employment. Dr. Séamus Mc Dermott wrote to then taoiseach Albert Reynolds with the proposal, plus a report on its feasibility to...
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The Liffey Trust, 117-126 Upper Sheriff St. Dublin 1, Ireland
(01) 836 4645
info@liffeytrust.ie