Waterford City Enterprise Board and Waterford Adult Education Centre (WAEC) recently launched “First Flight”, an enterprise programme which assists small craft start-ups. Based in the Kite Design Studio, in the heart of Waterford’s Viking Triangle, First Flight is already working with the first group of students, providing them with workspace, mentoring assistance and practical business … Continued
Dementia affects almost 44,000 people in Ireland and touches the lives of 50,000 carers and hundreds of thousands of family members. For every one person suffering from Alzheimer’s, there are a handful of people who help care for that individual. Almost always, these friends and family members helping have no experience or training to care … Continued
Home Instead Senior Care, a leading global provider of home care services for seniors, expressed its grave concern at the recent publication of complaints received by the HSE around the provision of home care services. A recent Irish Times article revealed that bad practice continues in the sector and examples of such unacceptable practice included … Continued
Home Instead Senior Care, which provides home care services for our seniors, recently highlighted its concerns surrounding the growing “black economy” in the elderly care sector. With a rapidly expanding population of over 65s, senior care services have never been more in demand and this has lead to a culture of unregulated, uninsured and unvetted … Continued
Waterford City Enterprise Board’s ‘Fresh Start’ seminar at the Tower Hotel last Thursday attracted a large and enthusiastic audience of budding entrepreneurs. Over 90 attendees listened to start up advice from Mary Doherty of Granny Maddox and Sean Egan of Sean Egan Artglass, and information on how to best develop an idea into a business … Continued
What do LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon and Waterford’s Casey Games have in common? They will all be speaking at the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs in the U.S. on May 17th and18th. Jordan Casey is the 13 year old Waterford student who rose to fame last year as the youngest person in Europe to develop … Continued
Lorna Coleman, Microfinance Ireland and Ciaran Cullen, WCEB Over forty entrepreneurs from Waterford City and County received top business tips and advice at a lunchtime event last Wednesday April 24th at the Ramada Viking Hotel. Hosted by Waterford City and County Enterprise Boards the seminar focused on loans to small businesses which have been refused … Continued
Home Instead Senior Care was recently awarded ISO certification which copper-fastens its commitment to quality care, customer service and continual improvement. ISO 9001, which is administered by the International Organisation for Standardisation, is recognised globally as the guideline for establishing and maintaining an effective quality management system for businesses in any sector. Since opening the … Continued
Christchurch National School brings its fun, exciting and adventure packed production of “Alice in Wonderland” to Garter Lane from May 15th to 17th. Following the success of the schools production of “Over the Rainbow” in 2011, the pupils, from Junior Infants through to Sixth Class, will all feature in the much loved Lewis Carroll’s classic … Continued
Rotary club of Waterford appeals to the public to join in its annual charity cycle. The Rotary club of Waterford Ronald Mc Donald Fun Cycle takes place again this year on Sunday May 12th 2013 at Mc Donald’s on the Cork Road. Starting at 11.00 am the cycle travels to Tramore and back. The … Continued
