Enterprise & Tourism
The sustainability, vibrancy and future of our rural areas is directly linked to the existence of a range of different indigenous businesses within rural communities.
SECAD Sustainable Food Training Programme
SECAD’s Sustainability for Food and Drink Businesses programme aims to provide practical training support to food and drink businesses wishing to pursue more environmentally conscious actions within their business operations. The…
Food Waste Initiative
SECAD Partnership is working with Savour Food, a food waste reduction initiative working with food processors, restaurants and food retailers across East Cork to reduce food waste and associated costs.
Wild Work – Biodiversity Services for Business
Wild Work creates connections, ecologically, and between business and community; while bringing wonderful wildness back into people’s everyday lives.
Agri-diversification
SECAD Partnership works with farmers and farm families through enterprise training and capital assistance programmes to enable farmers to upskill, and to diversify activities on or off farm. Farmers possess…
Supporting Female Entrepreneurship
WREN is a training and mentoring programme for women who wish to become self-employed or who are already in the early stages of business development. The online, interactive workshops, are…
Social Enterprise
A ‘social enterprise’ differs from a ‘private enterprise’ in that it is established to meet a social challenge or need and generally, will reinvest profits back into expanding its socially…
Mary Crowley, RSS participant at Field of Dreams Social Enterprise Rural Tourism & Ring of Cork
Rural Tourism is critical to the economy of County Cork. Tourism is boosted by the region’s close proximity to traditionally strong tourism routes and a ready market of over one million people,…
Start your own business support
Are you thinking about setting up your own business? Through group workshops and working with a dedicated enterprise advisor we can help you to:
Enterprise & Tourism Case Studies
WREN Bi-Monthly Networking Sessions
December 5, 2023Online Networking for Female Entrepreneurs on Thursday, 1st February 2024 between 10.30 am - 12.00 pm via Zoom
Keep Moving in Nature!
January 31, 202315 Scenic Trails across the East Cork & Cork Harbour Region SECAD has launched an interactive online brochure that provides inspiration to get outdoors in 15 spectacular locations, across the…
New Ring of Cork Heritage Trail Map Pad
May 29, 2018The new Ring of Cork Heritage Trail Map Pad promotes the regions heritage. The ROC heritage trail is an A3 map that highlights and connects 36 heritage attractions from as…
Active Connections, Killeagh, Co. Cork
April 5, 2018Active Connections is an award winning social enterprise run by Ray Burke since June 2015. Active Connections CLG uses activity based therapies to support young people experiencing emotional and behavioural…
Field of Dreams, Bishopstown, Cork
April 5, 2018Down Syndrome Cork (DS Cork) has been providing social care services in a variety of forms for the past nine years. In autumn 2017, DS Cork launched the Field of…
Cumas Female Entrepreneurship Programme
April 3, 2018SECAD led Cumas (‘ability’) programme, a free training course funded by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) to support female entrepreneurship in 2017.
MT Reconnect – Maria Treacy
April 3, 2018Maria Treacy is passionate about empowering people and connecting people with business to achieve success.
Lee Valley Taste Trails -Dorothy O’ Tuama
April 3, 2018Dorothy O’Tuama established the Lee Valley Taste Trails in 2016 to offer bespoke small group tours to food and craft beer producers and culture and heritage sites of the Lee…
Integreat Ltd – Gerry O’ Connor
March 28, 2018Gerry O’Connor participated in SECAD’s ‘Start your own business’ course. Gerry came to SECAD with qualifications in interior joinery and extensive experience after a career starting out as an apprentice…
Grow to Play- Shelly O’ Donovan
March 28, 2018Shelley O’ Donovan had the seed of a business idea ignited from past experience in the education field and further study in play therapy when she was recommended to get…
