All fellow Cork Chamber members and their families are welcome to shop with us for their own shopping needs, benefiting from our wholesale value.
Just quote Cork ChamberNo. 300702 at reception and again at checkout.
In addition to the UP TO 75% OFF BUTCHERS SELECT STEAKS, from today we have an incredible 50% OFF ALL EASTER PRODUCTS.
All our branches have implemented safe shopping guidelines issued by the HSE and additionally offer extended space with wide isles, which provides for safer shopping for you and your members and their family.
To ensure that EU-wide supply chains continue to operate, Member States are requested to designate, without delay, all the relevant internal border-crossing points on the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) as ‘green lane' border crossings. The green lane border crossings should be open to all freight vehicles, whatever goods they are carrying. Crossing the border, including any checks and health screening, should not take more than 15 minutes.
Start at Best has recently launched an Open Call for Funding Proposals which is a key opportunity for businesses with an interest in workplace innovation. Each successful applicant will receive a grant to the value of €7,500, five companies in Ireland will be awarded grants.
Start at Best has recently launched an Open Call for Funding Proposals which is a key opportunity for businesses with an interest in workplace innovation. Each successful applicant will receive a grant to the value of €7,500, five companies in Ireland will be awarded grants.
Workplace innovation has emerged as a key driver for business competitiveness and for this reason, Start at Best https://startatbest.eu/ is actively seeking companies and organisations who have a workplace innovation idea which they would like to trial or implement.
SMEs and micro-business in Ireland are facing uncertain and challenging futures. Any support which will help reorient business practices to improve productivity and thus competitiveness should be taken into consideration! Check out the details of the call and how to apply: https://startatbest.eu/open-calls/
Cork City Council is one of four consortium partners within Start at Best which is an EU-funded project, supported under the Horizon 2020. Contact Siobhan Finn at siobhan.finn@corkinnovates.com
View Start at Best March Newsletter here: https://bit.ly/3bE03dZ
Cash-flow has been identified as the number one difficulty for Chamber members during the COVID 19 pandemic. Cork Chamber today calls on the public sector to adhere to its prompt payment policy and those in the private sector to support fellow businesses during the crisis. Extension and deepening of existing supports to a 6-month window is also essential.
“It is essential that the Government prompt payment policy is observed and that no business is left waiting at a critical point for cashflow. In parallel, any business that can, should be prompt in payment to suppliers. We are all one business community and we are mutually dependent for our economic recovery."
Due to the extreme impact of COVID-19, it’s time for SMEs to review business continuity plans and emergency activation plans. This 90- minute webinar will offer business owners valuable ways and means on how their business can survive in the coming weeks and months.
In this 90-minute webinar, we will equip participants with coping mechanisms to overcome company setbacks along with discussing what resilience is, why you need it and how to develop it; so that you have the strength, courage and fortitude to overcome adversity.
Get everything you need to know in this short session with Zahid Aslam, Lecturer in Digital Marketing, CIT. From small meetings to large webinars, find out the many ways you can connect with your clients and customers digitally in this challenging time.
Mark Flavin and Jen Bryan from Cliq Media & Marketing will give you key tips on how to adjust your advertising efforts, things to avoid and top tips to help you pivot your marketing.
There are a number of community collaboratives that are delivering vital services to those vulnerable citizens and groups across the city and county. Here are a few to take note of and share among your networks.
COVID-19 Community Outreach (CCO) will link and support the work of community and voluntary organisations across Ireland who are responding to meet the needs of communities during the COVID-19 crisis.
City Community Response Forum is the Cork City Council helpline to help ensure that those at risk in our community.
County Community Support Programme is for those in need help accessing non-emergency and non-medical supports, or advice.
There are a number of community collaboratives that are delivering vital services to those vulnerable citizens and groups across the city and county. Here are a few to take note of and share among your networks.
COVID-19 Community Outreach
The government have announced a series of supports that will be rolled out across the country to support those most affected by COVID-19. Among these supports is COVID-19 Community Outreach (CCO), which will be coordinated by The Wheel and Irish Rural Link, and funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development. CCO will link and support the work of community and voluntary organisations across Ireland who are responding to meet the needs of communities during the COVID-19 crisis. <FIND LOCAL DETAILS HERE>
County Community Support Programme
Cork County Council has set up a multi-agency response to delivery services to vulnerable citizens across the county. If you, or anyone you know, needs help accessing non-emergency and non-medical supports, or advice, please call our FREE contact number 1800 805 819, text 085 8709010 or email covidsupport@corkcoco.ie
City Community Response Forum
Cork City Council has established a Community Response Forum to help ensure that those at risk in our community can access deliveries of groceries, medicine and fuels and can avail of social care supports. The helpline will be running from 9-5pm seven days a week on: 1800-222-226, or email covidsupport@corkcity.ie
Ireland faces a crisis never seen before in our lifetime as we face the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus.
The evolving situation is greatly impacting how social innovations operate. We recognise these are unprecedented times for everyone. With this, we have extended the deadline for applications to our Sustainable Cork Fund until Friday, April 17th 2020 at 5pm.
We hope that this additional time will allow for projects to put their best application forward and alleviate pressures that COVID-19 is causing.
Irish Water's new Non-Domestic Tariff Framework for business customers, is to be deferred as a result of the current Covid-19 emergency.
The new framework which supports a new national set of charges was due to come into effect on 1 May 2020, with customers due to receive communications about these changes in the coming weeks. This decision has been taken by Irish Water with the support of our economic regulator, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.
On Sunday, the Government approved a request by Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy to extend by 23 days the statutory time period for processing planning applications under the Planning Acts. If an application was lodged prior to February 21st, the public participation phase is completed, and the relevant planning authority can make a decision within the extended deadline. However, if an application was lodged after February 21st and before March 29th, the decision cannot be made until after the 20th of April.
On Sunday, the Government approved a request by Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy to extend by 23 days the statutory time period for processing planning applications under the Planning Acts. If an application was lodged prior to February 21st, the public participation phase is completed, and the relevant planning authority can make a decision within the extended deadline. However, if an application was lodged after February 21st and before March 29th, the decision cannot be made until after the 20th of April.
Furthermore, if the planning application is lodged after March 29th, it cannot be decided by the relevant planning authority until the five-week period for public consultation on the application commences, which will commence after April 20. Effectively the order applies to all applications lodged after the February 21, with decisions on these not be made until after April 20.
All public meetings associated with planning, or appeals are now officially deferred until the restrictions on the movement of the public are lifted. The changes also apply to appeals to An Bord Pleanála. The Department has also recommended to planning authorities that public meetings on all Plans be officially deferred for the period of the extension. This includes Development Plan, Development Plan Variations and Local Area Plan processes.
The emergency legislation was passed to safeguard the integrity of decision making, and to ensure the ongoing work and function of planning and development processes.
For more information on the detail of the measures see <HERE>, official guidance from the Dept of Housing, Planning and Local Government.
