November 6, 2024
Empowering messages at Nationwide Womens’ Enterprise Day celebration

Businesswomen throughout Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim gathered at Lough Eske Fort for an occasion to rejoice Nationwide Womens’ Enterprise Day. The occasion was organised by Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal, in collaboration with their counterparts within the Native Enterprise Places of work in Sligo and Leitrim.

Now in its 17th yr, Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day (NWED) is an initiative of the Native Enterprise Places of work that goals to encourage feminine entrepreneurship and help girls in enterprise. It strives to empower much more girls to arrange their very own companies and to extend nationwide recognition of the important position performed by Eire’s feminine entrepreneurs. 

The theme of this yr’s Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day was “Empowering Enterprise Collectively.” The occasion started with inspirational opening addresses from radio and TV broadcaster, and All-Eire successful captain, Anna Geary and Grainne Mullins of Gra Candies. This was adopted by an insightful and fascinating panel dialogue with Áine Faughnan of Dromod Boxty, Isobel Sangha of The Donegal Pure Cleaning soap Firm and Helen Mulholland of Lough Gill Distillery, who shared their information and expertise of rising their respective manufacturers and companies.

Audio system and visitor panellists on the Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day (NWED) occasion: Head of Enterprise Donegal Brenda Hegarty, Áine Faughnan of Dromod Boxty, Grainne Mullins of Grá Candies, MC Anna Geary and Isobel Sangha of The Donegal Pure Cleaning soap Firm organised by the Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal in Lough Eske Fort, Co. Donegal. Image by Joe Dunne

Brenda Hegarty, Head of Enterprise Donegal stated: “Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day has turn into a flagship occasion for ladies entrepreneurs and businesswomen yearly. This yr, we have been delighted to have some wonderful audio system and inspirational businesswomen be part of us in Lough Eske Fort for an exquisite night. It was a fantastic celebration of ladies and native companies, with glorious insights shared.”

Including to this, Brenda stated: “Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day addresses points dealing with girls in enterprise on a day-to-day foundation. Occasions like this are vital in supporting constructive enchancment, offering girls entrepreneurs and people contemplating beginning a enterprise with insights from main businesswomen and introducing them to a community of entrepreneurs who’re blazing a path within the Irish market and abroad.”

Brenda Hegarty, Head of Enterprise Donegal, talking on the Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day (NWED) occasion, organised by the Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal in Lough Eske Fort, Co. Donegal. Image by Joe Dunne 19/10/23

Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day occasions lined a variety of subjects and was open to all aspiring feminine entrepreneurs, current feminine enterprise house owners and anybody who wished to be taught extra about entrepreneurship. 

In case you have an thought to begin or develop your corporation inside Donegal, get in contact to learn the way the Native Enterprise Workplace may also help. Electronic mail [email protected] or name (074) 916 0735.

Native Enterprise workers attend the Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day (NWED) occasion, organised by the Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal in Lough Eske Fort, Co. Donegal. Image by Joe Dunne 19/10/23

 

Empowering messages at Nationwide Womens’ Enterprise Day celebration was final modified: October twenty seventh, 2023 by Rachel McLaughlin