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Mayo Intercultural Action has secured further funding to continue its GROW: Women In Business Programme. The GROW programme - Growing Real Opportunities for Women is an EU funded programme run by Mayo Intercultural Action, providing supports for women to set up their own businesses. Over the past two years, women from throughout Mayo have availed of training, mentoring, and advice to support them to develop successful enterprises. Following on the success of this innovative programme to date, MIA has been allocated a further €33,152 to continue the programme until November 2012 and recruitment will now begin for this new phase of GROW.

Starting next week the Galway County and City Enterprise Board is rolling out a new programme of training courses in May and June designed and priced with the small to middle sized business in mind. The courses are also relevant for someone who is thinking of starting a business and not sure of the next step to take, or someone with an idea and not sure how to develop or make it happen.

New figures published this week by the CSO reveal that unemployment in the southeast, including Kilkenny, has now risen to 18.9 per cent, compared to the national average of 14.8 per cent.

Over 600 potential entrepreneurs, existing businesses, and industry experts attended the unique one day Start and Grow Enterprise Expo in Tullamore last Friday November 18. The expo took place at the Tullamore Court Hotel where a host of seminars, talks, business support exhibitors, mentoring opportunities, and a unique ideas zone gave visitors all the information they needed, under one roof, to start, develop, and grow their business.

The Meet West initiative, which was launched last week, will be the largest business development event in the west in 2011. It is a collaborative effort of four local authorities, three county enterprise boards, the enterprise development agencies, and chambers of commerce in the Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon region.

Government funding announced for county enterprise boards across the country will see the creation of five new jobs in County Mayo.

Thirty four jobs are to be created in Galway by start-up companies and expanding businesses before the end of the year following an injection of Government funds into county and city enterprise boards.

Lack of access to overdraft facilities or bank loans is continuing to have a serious effect on trading and business for Kilkenny’s small business community, according to the County Enterprise Board (CEB).

Fianna Fáil has a detailed plan to support SMEs in Kilkenny according to local Fianna Fáil TD and front bench spokesperson on small business, John McGuinness.

Mayor Michael J Crowe has pledged that “job creation and retention is a cornerstone” of his mayoral role and he has been campaigning to boost job creation in the city.