Home International Trade Join Today Your FREE 2020 Year Planner now Available Our 2020 yearly wall planners are now available from the office. Call in and collect yours today or you can email us by clicking the button below. Alternatively, you can phone us on 052 6126500 Order Now Contact us today! Huge Appetite for Questum Entrepreneur Event Tom Brennan - Entrepreneur in Residence, Questum Centre The large over subscription of bookings to this weeks Entrepreneur event at the Questum Centre in Clonmel bodes well for the future of Entrepreneurship in County Tipperary. The path to successful entrepreneurship will be given a brilliant Tipperary spotlight in the New Year when seven business trail blazers will give their insights at a special event at Questum in Clonmel. Entrepreneur in Residence at Questum, a LIT Enterprise Acceleration Centre, Tom Brennan has drawn together an unprecedented line-up of proven business people who will invigorate start-up and early stage businesses for the year ahead at the Entrepreneurs Day event on January 10 promoted by Tipperary County Council and LIT. Tom who co-founded EirGen Pharma, which today employs over 250 people and was acquired by New York Stock Exchange listed OPKO in 2015, will host the half-day event that will be an unmissable opportunity for budding or early stage entrepreneurs. Tom and all seven of his guests are former finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year. Speakers: Patrick Joy: Suretank David McKernan: Java Republic Clodagh Cavanagh: Abbey Machinery; Tipperary David Walsh: Netwatch Colum O’Sullivan: Cully & Sully Rachel Doyle: Arboretum Carlow Louise Grubb: Triviumvet / Q1 Scientific Questum Entrepreneurs Day Press release.docx Download File This event has been completely booked out. #1weektogo - Eolas Money FREE Wellbeing Conference - now fully booked Due to popular demand, this event is now fully booked, and promises to be a great evening, and a great way to start 2020! If you would like to put your name on a waiting list in case some places become available, you can email Jim directly at
[email protected] Looking forward to Finding a Voice 2020 Already in the past two years, Finding a Voice has programmed music by more than 50 women composers, arrangers, and musicians, and this number is set to grow again in 2020. Once again, the music of several Irish women composers will be featured, including Joan Trimble, Ailís Ní Ríain, Siobhán Cleary, Edel Sullivan, Anne-Marie O’Farrell, and a new commission from Gráinne Mulvey. Earlier this week, Finding a Voice were delighted to announce Rose Connolly as the winner of the 2020 Competition for emerging Women Composers. Rose is a student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and her piece will be premiered in a lunchtime concert on International Women's Day. In 2020, Finding a Voice will focus on broadening the genres covered in the previous two years, to include traditional Irish music and jazz, in addition to music from the seventeenth century to the present day. Already in the past two years, Finding a Voice has programmed music by more than 50 women composers, arrangers, and musicians, and this number is set to grow again in 2020. Once again, the music of several Irish women composers will be featured, including Joan Trimble, Ailís Ní Ríain, Siobhán Cleary, Edel Sullivan, Anne-Marie O’Farrell, and a new commission from Gráinne Mulvey. Finding a Voice 2020 takes place from Friday March 6th - 8th. You can hear Roisin Maher, Artistic Director of Finding a Voice speaking about this years Festival on the South Tipp Arts Podcast. Listen Now Back for Business Programme Launches Appeal A call has gone out to returned emigrants to Tipperary who are starting and developing businesses in Ireland to join the latest cycle of the highly-successful Back for Business developmental programme. The call was launched by Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development Ciarán Cannon. A call for applicants for an initiative to help returned emigrants start and develop businesses in Ireland has been launched today by Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development Ciarán Cannon T. D. This is the third year of the highly-successful Back for Business developmental programme, which is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Launching the call for applicants, Minister Ciarán Cannon T.D. said: “Global Irish – Ireland’s Diaspora Policy, supports the successful return to Ireland of our Diaspora. Back for Business is a practical measure to implement this commitment. This programme can make a real difference to returned and returning emigrants, who want to establish new businesses in Ireland. The successful delivery of this programme will enable these entrepreneurs to build new businesses and contribute to our economy and society.” The initiative was established to support entrepreneurial activity among returned emigrants who have lived abroad for at least a year and have returned in the last three years. Those planning to return in the near future will also be considered. The call is open for applications for the 2020 programme, which will run from January to July 2020. There is no charge for those selected to participate and the closing date for applications is January 7, 2020. Those interested in learning more can download a brochure and register their interest in receiving an application form from www.backforbusiness.com Learn More Upcoming Subsidised Training Programmes County Tipperary Skillnet have a variety of upcoming training programmes available for you or your employees… County Tipperary Skillnet Courses for Early 2020 Book Now Book Now Professional Development Workshops Due to increased funding for 2020, County Tipperary Skillnet can now offer the following courses at a reduced rate from the one previously advertised. To book a place on any of our courses, contact us today! Book Now County Tipperary Skillnet have some other exciting courses coming in 2020 - Visit our website for further details of all upcoming courses. Explore 2020 Courses Attention SME Owners/Managers Find Out More Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation's Full Report - BREXIT - A National SME Study now available to Download BA DBEI Brexit Survey Oct 2019 Final FULL REPORT.pdf Download File *KEY CONSULTATIONS* Please find below a summary of upcoming consultations which may be particularly important to your Chamber and/or your members • Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government - Public consultation on reforms to judicial review provisions in Planning Act - Deadline 5pm Monday 27 January 2020 • Department of Business, Enterprise & Innovation - Public Consultation on the General Scheme of an Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill - Deadline 5pm Friday, 17 January 2020 • Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment - Public Consultation on Removing Barriers to Energy Efficiency in the Rental Sector by Addressing the 'Split-Incentive Problem’ - Deadline Friday, 17 January 2020 • Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport - Public Consultation on a Review of Sustainable Mobility Policy - Deadline Friday, 24 January 2020 • Department of Justice & Equality - Public Consultation on Flexible Working - Deadline Friday 31 January 2020 Click here for Chamber information about Trade Certs, Export Services we provide, Brexit and WTO rules. 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