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Is your businesses from one of our wide range of sectors? Do you want to benefit from this pilot network which is available across Inishowen for 2020?

Engineering, Manufacturing, Transport, Travel, Tourism, Hospitality, Farming And Fishing.

2020 Never before have we seen such dramatic changes to the way we work as we have over the past few months. What we are faced with now is a future, with many of these changes staying in place permanently and moving forward productively, safely and successfully is the end goal for us all.

As part of the changes and different priorities your company now have, we too at Inishowen Skillnet have also made changes to the way programmes are delivered. We have adapted with on-line and blended programmes in response to our network needs. We have also reconfigured topics to companies and also topics to better meet your staff and organisational needs.

Skillnet Ireland and Inishowen Development Partnership (IDP) have been pro-active in their responsiveness, making these changes possible, so you and your staff get all the support and training you really want.

The revised calendar of events and training can be accessed in the link below as well as our contact form and direct booking links. The support your company and staff can receive comes in the form of:

  • Highly subsidised high quality training.
  • Open to all private sector or commercial semi-state enterprises/companies based in Inishowen inc. Sole Traders, Farmers, Small businesses etc.
  • Training and events delivered at a time, place and in a way to suit companies.
  • Proven learning and development that results in employees increasing productivity.
  • Training and confidence building that improves customer care and product knowledge.
  • Provision of opportunities to increase staff morale and career/self-development
  • In-company training to assist in physical skills training, while keeping your people safe and adhering to government guidance and maintaining contract tracing as part of the ongoing public health management plan.
  • Innovation Inishowen Skillnet in co-operation with Inishowen Development Partnership [IDP] and the Network Committee facilitates networking opportunities between businesses as priority for business managers and owners across Inishowen to have a platform to discuss and develop not only their own company but also all of Inishowen. #inishowen #LiveWorkThrive

INISHOWEN SKILLNET

  • Is open to all private sector or commercial semi-state enterprises/companies based in ​
  • Inishowen inc. Sole Traders, Farmers, Small businesses etc​
  • We offer subsidised high quality training.​
  • The Network delivers training at a time and place to suit companies.​
  • Learning and development of employees results in increasing productivity.​
  • Training improves customer care and product knowledge.​
  • We provide opportunities to increase staff morale and career/self development​
  • Innovation Inishowen Skillnet facilitates networking opportunities between businesses.​

SECTORS

How your company can benefit from being part of a skillnet network

Fishing

Fishing

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Engineering

Engineering

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Engineering

Peter Mc Gonagle, Quality Manager at Inishowen Engineering said: “Having Skillnet support for our company and the training being made available locally means we can train more of our team in a wide range of skills areas never before available to us.

Our staff here at Inishowen Engineering see the company growing physically with the development of the site here at Shandrum, Buncrana and they see the opportunities for them in taking up the Innovation Inishowen Skillnet training, meaning they are growing with us. Just as it should be!”

 

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Farming

Farming

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Farming

Agriculture in Inishowen

Agriculture and food is one of the most important industries in this country.
Farmers make up 6.9% of the workforce. When employment in inputs, processing and marketing is included, the agri-food sector accounts for 11% of people at work in Ireland. This sector accounts for 10.5% of GDP and its make up 8.5% share of exports. The economic fabric of rural areas centers on this industry.

Raising its competitiveness would help maintain and generate job opportunities in the agriculture supply service including machinery, agric-chemicals, finance consultancy, publications and building and Farm Diversification

Although agriculture is not as important to rural areas today as it was in the past, the sheer number still involved in farming means that the primary objective of any rural development initiative should be to retain as many farm households as possible within countryside areas.  It is still farmers and their families who are largely responsible for keeping rural schools, shops, sports and social clubs going. The need to maintain a “critical mass” of people in a locality to sustain a vibrant rural community, which will also help solve the growing social /urban problem.

The plight of the farmer in the Northwest becomes apparent when you consider their relative farm size. This becomes even more apparent in Inishowen where the land type in general does not lend itself to intensive farming.

Faced with realities such as changing consumer demand and falling output prices, the full-time farmer is coming under increasing pressure to improve the viability of his/her holding by looking at two main avenues:
(i) to improve the quality of the product
(ii) to improve the levels of training and education so as to maximise the benefit that any new technologies can be to that family farm.

Family farms, which are part of the fabric of Irish agriculture, are under serious threat over the coming years Inishowen Development Partnership (IDP) with an emphasis on rural people and farming methods, see training and education are crucial if change is to be brought about. This would secure the long-term viability of many family farm families in the area and also serve as a workable model for regenerating the rural economy. These projects could be adopted by policy makers both in Ireland and the EU who are striving to combat the effects of rural decline.

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Transport

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Peter Bradley at the launch of Innovation Inishowen Skillnet Programme in An Grianan Hotel Burt on Thursday. Photo Clive Wasson

Innovation Inishowen Skillnet network committee member and MD of Bradley Transport and the new offering Bradex [https://bradex.ie/] pictured here at the launch of Innovation Inishowen Skillnet at An Grianan Hotel, Burt.

” I`m pleased to have been asked to get involved with Inishowen Skillnet a government backed multi – sector learning, network for businesses of all sizes in Inishowen. The objective of the network is to further improve innovation in the Northwest region and to support local companies to develop and grow through the provision of relevant and flexible training” Peter Bradley MD Bradley Transport.

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Hospitality & Tourism

Hospitality & Tourism

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Hospitality & Tourism

https://www.govisitinishowen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Know-Your-Region-Part-one-3.pdf

The new normal in 2020 but the welcome across Inishowen is always warm and friendly

https://www.govisitinishowen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Know-Your-Region-Part-one-3.pdf

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing

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Manufacturing

As with all of our highlighted companies, we have lots to be proud of in Inishowen, Here we feature Ashley Martin who have been working from Carndonagh for the past 35 years, leading the way in shopfitting design, and the build and fitout on-site for many well know brands. That’s something to be very proud of!

We know that there are many other Inishowen companies that are market leaders in Manufacturing:- large and small. Send us a message and we can help to highlight your company too and so that others know where to find you.

Sectors:

Mining and Quarrying
Food products
Beverages
Textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products
Paper and paper products
Chemicals and chemical products
Basic pharmaceutical products and preparations
Rubber and plastic products
Basic metals and fabricated metal products,machinery and equipment
Computer,electronic,optical and electrical equipment
Wood and wood products, other non-metallic mineral products, furniture
Transport equipment
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STEERING GROUP

Chairman

John Farren, Ballyliffin Golf Club ​

Gareth Whitmore, Inishowen Co-Op ​

Peter McGonagle, Inishowen Engineering​

Geraldine Diver, Weldiz Ltd​

Peter Bradley, Bradley Transport​

Andrew Ward, Inishowen Development Partnership​

Edward Doherty, Tank and Skinny’s​

Helen Nolan, IDP Chairperson​

Joe Sweeney, IFA​

Brendan Callaghan, Callaghan’s Jewellers &​ Buncrana Chamber of Commerce​

Sean McDermott Kirchhoff and IDP Board Member for IBEC. ​

Promotor

Shauna McClenaghan, Inishowen Development Partnership​

INNOVATION INISHOWEN SKILLNET MANAGEMENT TEAM

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John Farren

Chairman

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1622841924417744

 

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John Farren

Chairman

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Shauna McClenaghan

Promoter

shauna@inishowen.ie 

 

 

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Shauna McClenaghan

Promoter

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Kay Martyn

IDP Buncrana Accounts

kay@inishowen.ie 

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Kay Martyn

IDP Buncrana Accounts

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Ana McColgan

Programme Manager

ana@inishowen.ie

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Ana McColgan

Programme Manager