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Businesses planning to enter the SCCUL Enterprise awards are being urged to submit their entries as soon as possible. The deadline for entries to the innovative awards programme which celebrates entrepreneurship and rewards local enterprise is 5.30pm tomorrow Friday November 6.

A €50,000 prize fund is on offer to Galway-based entrepreneurs in the sixth year of an innovative competition aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship and rewarding local enterprise. The sccul enterprise awards, launched on Monday night in the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway, is an initiative of community based company SCCUL Enterprises Ltd. 

Fine Gael’s John O’Mahony has said that grants of €252,542.50 paid from the Local Enterprise Office in 2014 are providing great support to local businesses in Galway.

Vision Built will represent the Local Enterprise Office Galway at 2015 National Enterprise Awards ceremony at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Thursday, June 11.

Niamh Murray from Moate Community School with her teacher Lisa Doyle scooped third place at the recent Student Enterprise Awards national finals. Her business, Once Upon a Rhyme, brought traditional nursery rhymes back into the 21st century with her wonderful catchy artwork on a range of products.

Local Enterprise Office is the new name for the county and city enterprise boards, a new national resource, staffed with professional people with business training, to assist budding entrepreneurs and existing businesses in every county in Ireland. LEOs offer an enhanced enterprise support model with emphasis on delivery at local level. The primary objectives of the LEO are (1) To facilitate access to enterprise services, (2) To promote and support enterprise at local level, in particular for micro-enterprises.

The winners of this year’s Westmeath County Enterprise Awards will be announced next Tuesday September 30 in the Radisson Blu.

The Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship event is just under three weeks away, taking place on Monday, September 15 in St Mary's Hall, GMIT, Mayo Campus at 6.30pm. It promises to be a great evening for aspiring entrepreneurs with great guests, interesting panel discussions, networking opportunities and free mentoring.

Against a backdrop of a reduced role for local authorities in several areas, Westmeath County Council is to gain new responsibilities in the areas of enterprise and community development.

Dragon’s Den star Bobby Kerr paid a visit to GMIT’s Galway campus recently to attend