MAST is a dedicated support service for Irish market and event traders. Membership of MAST provides €8 million Public Liability Indemnity cover plus a host of extras. Multi-location membership of MAST provides cover for trading opportunities anywhere within the EU.

Are you based in Leitrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone or the surrounding region? Working in the creative sector as a business or independently & interested in taking your work into new markets? Harnessing Creativity is a new project celebrating & enhancing creative and business talent in Leitrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone and the surrounding region. 

The Project will be organising a number of free Capacity Building Workshops over the next few weeks.  The first round of Workshops will be held on Thursday 30th May 2013 and will focus on Marketing and Promotion.  These sessions will be tailored to creative sector businesses interested in taking their work into new markets, it will help creative businesses develop skills to plan and develop a marketing strategy relevant to their own business, covering both online and traditional marketing techniques. Spaces are limited so sign up today.

The Creative Carlow group are setting up a pop up shop during the Eigse Festival 7th to 16th June and would like to invite all interested craftspeople and artists living or working in County Carlow to join them in this exciting selling opportunity. 

Trained production thrower available in Limerick from 10th June 2013 onwards. Interested in working in all aspects of ceramics. 

Has completed the Thomastown Pottery Skills Course and is is finishing up BA honors Degree in Ceramic Design from LSAD this month. Full CV available on request.

Focused on talent, careers and job development.

Providing a range of quality education and training courses to 6,500 job seekers.

What is MOMENTUM?

“MOMENTUM” is an innovative Government initiative which is designed to get people who are long term unemployed back to work in a structured and systematic way and was launched by Government on the 18th of December 2012.  

12ft x 12ft retail space available for a pop-up shop venture in the Limerick area.

Closing Date for this call is last working day of June 2013

The Western Development Commission has established a dedicated Micro-Loan Fund on a pilot basis for the Creative Industries Sector, allocating €1m over a three year period.

The Micro-Loan Fund will operate on a competitive ‘Call for Applications’ basis with four calls in 2013, the second of which is currently open.  Loans of between €5,000 and €25,000 over 1 to 5 years at the EU reference rate for unsecured lending are available to successful applicants. Applications will be accepted from the first working day to the last working day of each quarter (March, June, September and December).

A fabulous traditional music and film performance entitled The Music Makers that will take place at the Taibhdhearc Na Gaillimhe, Galway on Saturday 20th April at 8pm.
 
In summer 2011 film-maker Myles O’Reilly visited the workshops of four Irish based instrument makers to record them at work. The resulting instruments were placed in the hands of four superb traditional musicians, edited film of the craftsmen was added and the result is a celebration of music making from tree to note.

This is a one-year programme run over three semesters, further details of which can be found at:
http://www.wit.ie

The closing date for applications is 14 June, 2012. 

Several craftspeople have made us aware of issues they have experienced online and via emails from dubious purchasers. Below is information from the National Consumer Agency regarding what do do in relation to scams: http://www.nca.ie/index.jsp?a=256&n=135&p=104