Home News Events Why Join? THE COUNTY TIPPERARY BUSINESS AWARDS A FANTASTIC SUCCESS! Watch the video from our awards night! County Tipperary Chamber of Commerce hosted the inaugural County Tipperary Business Awards on Friday night, in the Clonmel Park Hotel. See the photos from Friday night! https://www.countytipperarychamber.com A big thank you to: 1. Our sponsors without which the event would not be possible especially main sponsor L.I.T. and media sponsors Tipp FM and The Nationalist/Tipperary Star/South Tipp Today. 2. John Magnier and the Management of Coolmore. 3. Fran Curry - our excellent M.C. 3. The nominees who travelled from far and wide. 4. The Clonmel Park Hotel Management, Staff and especially Laura Jones! And not forgetting the Chef who treated us to a five star meal! 5. Thurles, Tipperary Town, Cashel and Nenagh Chambers who partnered with us to make the Awards a truly County Event. 6. James Ring, CEO of Limerick Chamber who helped us with great insight and advice on how a awards ceremony should be conducted. 7. Brendan Kerins of Premier Video for the nominees videos. 8. John Quirke Jewellers of Cahir for the beautifully crafted award pieces. 9. Eugene Hogan of Bridge PR for the video on the night. 10. Rita Guinan and Local Enterprise Tipperary for supporting us in the making of the videos and lots more! 11. John D Kelly for the photos – impeccable as always! 12. P.J. O’Neill of Sureprint for the pull-ups, tickets, menus and a lot of patience with me! 13. Eamonn Barry of Barry Packaging for the goody bag and those who contributed to the bag: Stephen Pearce Pottery, St. Killians candles Cahir, Merrys Irish Cream, BB’s restaurant/Showgrounds, Forget me Not, The Nationalist, CAMIDA, Clonmel Park Hotel, The Cottage Loughmore and Crocanoir. 14. J.J. Killian for manning the Media Room. 15. The Chamber President T.J. Kinsella, the Board Members who formed a sub committee chaired by Frank McGrath to progress the awards, the Staff of the Chamber and all the Family and friends who have had to put up with us this past few months! We raised a large amount of money in a charity collection on Friday night for North Tipperary and South Tipperary hospices - we will have an update for you next week on this. Kindest Regards, David Shanahan, Chief Executive Officer, County Tipperary Chamber of Commerce. Tel: 052 612 6500 Mobile: 086 839 2043 Email:
[email protected] SEE THE FULL LIST OF NOMINEES AND THEIR VIDEOS HERE! If you would like to include an article about your company in the newsletter at any stage please get in touch with us. This is a free service to Chamber members. Email Us Now! REGISTER NOW! Training Needs Analysis 2018 County Tipperary Skillnet is seeking training requests from all companies regardless of size or sector for application purposes for funding in 2018. To prepare for this and put realistic training courses relevant to your companies training needs in the application, I am asking companies to submit a training plan/requests based on business needs for 2018 or similar training delivered successfully in 2017. All courses may be identified regardless of whether or not they are in-company/sector specific. This survey will remain confidential between yourself and the Network with a compilation of training needs to be used for application purposes. Please consult and pass this link on to all departments within your company so that all training requirements are captured for the Network. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WCVKG38 Upcoming Training Autumn 2017. Book Now - places limited! GDPR Briefing with a HR / Legal Focus County Tipperary Skillnet will run a half day event on GDPR on 23 rd October in Raheen House Hotel. This event will focus on the Legal / HR Sectors.
This event will be split into 2 sessions, commencing with the Regulation and a brief overview of ‘What is GDPR?'. Following mid-morning refreshments there will be a presentation on putting it all into practice with a focus on the Legal / HR issues for companies.
**** 4 hrs Regulatory CPD awarded by the Irish Law Society & LIA for this event ****
For more information Click Here Effective Communication & Influencing Skills - Thursday 9th November 2017, Clonmel. Contact Sabrina or Karen to book now:
[email protected] 052 6191103
[email protected] 052 6191105 County Tipperary Skillnet is based in the offices of County Tipperary Chamber of Commerce in Clonmel. We are an enterprise led agency. County Tipperary Skillnet facilitate the active participation of companies in determining their own training needs and how, when and where training will be delivered. Up to 20% grant aid is applied to help make the training cost effective for companies. This grant can also be applied to in-house training. The goal is to invite companies to talk to the County Tipperary Skillnet team with a view to assisting them with their specific training needs by sourcing high quality trainers, deliver relevant training at a time and place that suits individual needs. In conjunction with County Tipperary Chamber, the contracting organisation for the Skillnet, we collaborate on numerous topical relevant events throughout the year. The Next Founder Friday event will take place on Friday October 20 th. Guest speaker will be Tom Brennan, co founder of Eirgen Pharma in Waterford. BOOK NOW! https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/founder-friday-tipperary-tickets-34954183905 Digital Strategy Survey Tipperary County Council has embarked on an initiative to develop a Digital Strategy for County Tipperary. It has commissioned a research firm, Market Dynamics, to conduct a research project to support this work. They have produced an online survey in order to obtain input from businesses/organisations across the county. I would be grateful if you would take a few minutes to complete the survey on the link below. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Tipp-Business All responses are confidential and an iPad (or a €400 voucher) will be raffled between all participants at the end of the project. We are hoping to get all the surveys completed by Oct 20th if possible so your co-operation would be appreciated. If you have any queries on the project please get in touch with John Gilsenan, Market Dynamics –
[email protected] or 086 384 0062. Up to 50% Funding Available to Community Groups and SMEs for Energy Projects Almost €6.5 million worth of energy upgrade work is coming to completion in Tipperary under the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s 2017 Better Energy Communities scheme. Tipperary Energy Agency is now calling on local community groups, sports facilities, private businesses and public sector organisations with potential energy efficiency upgrade projects for 2018 to get in touch, with a view to applying for funding for the 2018 scheme. Some €30 million of funding was available under SEAI’s 2017 Better Energy Communities scheme. Up to 50% funding is available to community groups and 30% available to businesses. St Oliver Plunkett National School in Clonmel underwent a major energy saving makeover in 2016. With the assistance of Tipperary Energy Agency, the school availed of €125,000 of funding under the Better Energy Communities Scheme. The works included new windows, doors, lighting, heating upgrade and insulation. The principal of the school Paul Murphy said ‘The project is a major success. It’s early October and we’ve only had the heating on for half an hour in the mornings. It’s extremely comfortable. This is impressive given that the building has been empty for two months over the summer.’ The children have definitely noticed a difference, he says, and the staff, ‘they love it’. Tipperary Energy Agency also successfully applied for a 50% grant on behalf of Moyne Athletic Club. PRO, Eibhlis Purcell said ‘Tipperary Energy Agency project managed it for us. Our side of it was that we just had to fill out the forms and come up with the money. The lights inside are way stronger and much safer. We have the local football team using the sports hall and before we’d be afraid they’d be blowing them on us.’ Paul Kenny, CEO Tipperary Energy Agency said “Business and community groups are often concerned with energy costs. The Better Energy Communities scheme seeks to support community groups and businesses to complete an investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy. I’m delighted Tipperary Energy Agency is in a position to help local organisations drastically reduce their energy use, environmental impact and costs over the last five years while supporting the local economy and jobs”. Tipperary Energy Agency is running two evening information events in Cahir and Nenagh on October 23/24. If you wish to attend, please contact
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