Empowering messages at Nationwide Womens’ Enterprise Day celebration

Businesswomen throughout Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim gathered at Lough Eske Citadel 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 assist 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 interesting 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.

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

Including to this, Brenda mentioned: “Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day addresses points going through girls in enterprise on a day-to-day foundation. Occasions like this are necessary in supporting optimistic 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 Citadel, Co. Donegal. Image by Joe Dunne 19/10/23

Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day occasions coated a spread of matters and was open to all aspiring feminine entrepreneurs, current feminine enterprise homeowners and anybody who needed to study extra about entrepreneurship. 

When you’ve got an thought to start out or develop your small business inside Donegal, get in contact to learn the way the Native Enterprise Workplace may help. E mail [email protected] or name (074) 916 0735.

Native Enterprise employees attend the Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day (NWED) occasion, organised by the Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal in Lough Eske Citadel, 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