By Meath Live Reporter
THE Meath Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Lunch and Learn seminar in Ashbourne last Wednesday 19 February opened doors to upcoming training courses and business supports for budding entrepreneurs ahead of Local Enterprise Week. Aoife Fegan of Meath LEO took around 30 people through a suite of preparatory courses while explaining business supports including grant offerings following a light lunch and refreshments in Ashbourne Library.
Local Enterprise Week in Meath runs from 3-7 March in a variety of venues across the county: “Someone said to me that the customer base is not a problem, it’s how you market your product,” said Aoife Fegan in her remarks at the afternoon seminar. “There is always a way to look at your business and find a spot, then you can look at applying for grants.”
The award winning Tom “An Gobha’ spoke to around 30 people at the Meath LEO ‘Lunch and Learn’ seminar in Ashbourne Library about his path to success
With details of training courses and business supports available online at localenterprise@meathcoco.ie or by phoning 046-9097000, the local enterprise week is a snapshot of what is on offer. Launch day (3 March) will open the week along with Digital Day on the following day at the Knightsbridge Hotel.
Mairead McGuinness, MEP will be at the Stationhouse Hotel on 5 March for the local enterprise week’s International Women’s Day celebration along with Kate Olahan, while the next Lunch and Learn will be at Dunboyne Community Centre on 6 March with business advice clinics from Meath LEO advisors. The week wraps up with the launch of LEO Entrepreneurship Supports for people with disabilities on 7 March at Solstice Art Centre in Navan.
Ken O’Neill of The Pantry in Ashbourne, Cllr Helen Meyer and Cllr Alan Tobin at the Meath LEO Lunch and Learn Seminar
The award-winning Tom ‘An Gobha’ King who has received support from Meath LEO was in Ashbourne for the seminar said: “Brace yourself and watch what’s going to happen!”
