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Bray Area Partnership Start your own Business Courses!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 By: stephen
Category: News

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Bray Community Enterprise are registering names for a new course specifically designed for unemployed people living in the Bray area who want to set up a business. Courses range from the 7-week Considering Self-employment (next one starts on 2nd June) to the more intensive 22-week Pre-enterprise Training programme.

The services provides support to long-term unemployed people, short-term unemployed people, dependent partners of unemployed people, lone parents, early school leavers, people in receipt of a disability payment, non-Irish nationals and individuals working in the home.

The services and support we offer include:

Advice and support on business set up and planning;
Start Your Own Business Courses;
on-going support and advice once you have started trading;
computer training at basic and ECDL level;
information and advice for all entrepreneurs.

Our Start Your Own Business courses

We run the following Start Your Own Business courses for people who want to explore the option of self-employment, whatever stage you may be at:

Considering Self-Employment: Exploring Options

If you are thinking about self-employment, this programme will give you an introduction to the concept of self-employment and will help you to:

identify your own skills and interests and how you could use them in self-employment;
explore the elements needed to set up and run your own business;
build confidence;
learn to identify business opportunities.

Pre-Enterprise Training Programme

If you are long-term unemployed and have a business idea this course will help you to develop that idea and bring it to the stage where you can set up your business.

Course run over a 22-week period, as a CE scheme with support from FAS;
Structured training programme (group and individual mentor sessions) covering such topics as book-keeping, marketing, IT skills and management;
You may be eligible to progress to the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (DSFA).

For further information and to book your place on a course contact
Bernard Dromey, Enterprise Development Worker
Tel: 01 205 0111 Email: bernard@braycommunityenterprise.ie