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BY DECLAN VARLEY

Small and medium-sized businesses interested in grants to help them invest in sustainable measures increased by over 40% in the past year, according to the bi-annual Uisce Éireann SME Sustainability Sentiment Survey.

Conversations with local businesses here in the city and in towns around the county have conveyed to me a growing level of frustration and negativity about the future of retail.

Going for Growth past participants from Galway are encouraging female entrepreneurs in the county who are determined to grow their businesses to apply for the award-winning business development programme.

Female entrepreneurs and budding businesswomen from Westmeath, Longford, Laois and Offaly took part in one of the largest-ever programme of events for National Women’s Enterprise Day recently.

Westmeath female entrepreneurs are encouraging others from the county to join the latest cycle of ACORNS - a highly-successful free development initiative to support early-stage female entrepreneurs living in rural Ireland.

Creative Enterprise West, trading as CREW, is accepting expressions of interest for the upcoming Creative Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (CEED) incubation programme delivered in partnership with the School of Design & Creative Arts, Atlantic Technological University, Galway.

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland is investing €500,000 in social entrepreneurship through two programmes of training and support currently open for application.

BY DECLAN VARLEY

Connacht businesses are in the running for this year’s Irish Business Design Challenge challenge which focuses on sustainable design solutions and innovation in business.