Community Enterprise Centres play a pivotal role in local economic development. The traditional model of a Community Enterprise Centre involved providing space for new start-up businesses/businesses in” growth”. In Fingal the Local Authority, Fingal County Council, provided the building assets and support for three such Enterprise Centre. One located in Dublin 15 called BASE (Blanchardstown Area Enterprise Centre) ; One located in Swords called Drinan ; and One located in Balbriggan called BEAT (Balbriggan Enterprise and Training Centre). Each Centre operated independently as a limited Company.

INNOVATE FINGAL is a new company that unites the three existing Centres and sets a new mission objective that is innovative . That objective seeks expand the work and the impact of the Centres beyond the limitation of physical space and the traditional understanding of a Community Enterprise Centre.