The programme of events for Local Enterprise Week 2020 was launched yesterday in Dublin with some Local Enterprise Office clients from around the country including Dublin athleisure company Gym+Coffee, young Limerick designer Aoife McNamara, Annascaul’s famous Black Pudding Company from Kerry, Carlow Toolmaking Services and digital health company Zendra Health.
The first week in March will see small businesses and budding entrepreneurs gather across the country for Local Enterprise Week 2020. An initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices, thousands of attendees are expected at over 300 events across the country during the week aimed at supporting small businesses and fostering entrepreneurship.
The week is run in each area by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices and the events will take place from the 2nd to 6th March. The events will cover a whole range of topics related to small businesses and starting up including financial skills, sustainability and the green economy, preparing for Brexit, how to pitch your business for funding and sales, and helping small businesses to market themselves both online and offline.
With over 300 events taking place across the country, Local Enterprise Week’s programme for 2020 aims to help businesses address the key challenges ahead of them as they face into a new decade. These include sector specific mentoring workshops, LEAN sessions on how to make your business more efficient, workshops on creating a green and sustainable business, getting your business online seminars and even how to use “mind magic” to help your business and the power of persuasion.
The week will also host the county finals for the hopefuls in this year’s Student Enterprise Programme and National Enterprise Awards as they hope to secure places in the national finals taking place in May.
Commenting on the programme, Chair of the network of Local Enterprise Offices, Oisin Geoghegan said, "Local Enterprise Week is a huge opportunity for small businesses and for those possible future start-ups to see the full range of supports out there for them. No matter what their business challenge or sector the Local Enterprise Offices will be putting on events for everyone, be it LEAN workshops, pitch training, trading online, sales and marketing, mastering social media, or simply, how to start a business, then it will be covered. It is also a great chance to network and broaden your connections in business so use it to the advantage of your business, or business idea."
Source: www.businessworld.ie
