In recent times being a enterprise proprietor has been robust. Because the pandemic hit small enterprise house owners have confronted monetary issues, recruitment challenges and because the cost-of-living disaster has hit many are actually seeing a decline in buyer spend. Feminine owned companies aren’t immune to those difficulties and for these in rural areas of Wales, additionally they undergo from loneliness too.
The College of Wales Trinity Saint David has helped a Lampeter based mostly girls’s group ‘Merched Medrus’ (Enterprising Ladies) to re-establish its help group for ladies enterprise house owners in Ceredigion and North Carmarthenshire. Previous to the pandemic, the group would meet to supply one another help, share information and abilities to assist their companies attain their full potential.
Ceredigion businesswoman Helen Gwenllian, and likewise a member of the community mentioned:
“When covid hit we couldn’t get collectively anymore, and all of us missed the help we are able to present one another. We wished to re-establish the group in order that feminine enterprise house owners don’t need to really feel so alone.”
Working with Rebecca Jones, Enterprise Improvement Supervisor at UWTSD, the group was capable of run its first occasion in three years.
Rebecca commented:
“I used to attend the group once I had my very own enterprise beforehand. It was an important help and once I was capable of provide the group a brand new residence, I used to be thrilled.”
Rebecca mentioned her position growing a rural enterprise hub as a part of the Tir Glas undertaking on the Lampeter campus means she might be working with enterprise house owners in rural areas of Wales to allow them to achieve their full potential.
Throughout the first occasion, the group mentioned how they wished it to be run, when and the way usually.
Rebecca provides:
“There was a lot of laughter but additionally some actually severe conversations concerning the difficulties the ladies enterprise house owners face. The group will meet most months for the remainder of the 12 months and can present a secure area to share experiences in addition to present alternatives to study new abilities.”
For extra particulars contact Rebecca Jones at [email protected]
