Mission Statement

"Acorn The Business Centre is committed to the development of existing, new and emerging enterprises in the Ballymoney council area."

Established in 1988, Acorn the Business Centre is committed to the creation of employment, business opportunity and training, primarily in the North Antrim area. Since then we have developed into one if the leading community development organisations in Northern Ireland, providing a wide range of activities for the public, private and community sector..

Acorn offers a wide range of programmes designed to help you start and grow businesses including the Start A Business Programme. Practical advice on all aspects of business start-up and expansion including access to support, assistance, training, premises and consultancy is available.

We already have helped hundreds of new businesses start up in the local area! This has resulted in Ballymoney having one of the highest rates of self-employment in Northern Ireland.

If you are looking for information, advice and support or pre-start training, innovation, design, product development, marketing, finance, management development, IT or software training skills, e-commerce or business mentors, you have come to the right place.