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Take care of your colleagues eye health and bring Crowleys Opticians FREE eye testing service to your workplace. Crowleys have over 100 years of eye care expertise and are now bringing this along with their mobile testing unit to businesses big and small across Cork.

We'll provide free, full eye tests in only 20 minutes per employee - at your convenience, with zero fuss. It's so good even the Cork Chamber have tried it! Call or email to find out more. 

Check out our refurbished shops in Grand Parade and Carrigaline, and look out for our new practice opening in Ballincollig soon!

Thurs Oct 1 | 2.30pm-3.30pm | Online

Cork Chamber is delighted to partner with the Irish American Business Chamber Network in Philadelphia to present this webinar focused on the strengthening of trading links and connectivity between Cork and Pennsylvania. As the Brexit deadline creeps closer, it is imperative that Ireland identifies ways to maintain our critical trading relationships with the rest of the world and reduce our dependency on the UK.

Join us to hear from panelists Conor Mowlds, Chief Commercial Officer, Port of Cork Company, and Jeffery L. Culbertson, CPE, Chief Commercial Officer, PSA Penn Terminals, LLC, who will discuss the role of their respective port authorities in driving developments in infrastructure and connectivity, thereby supporting the economic development of their local regions, and enhancing our international trading relationships.

If you would like to monitor the ongoing negotiations for the future partnership between the EU and the UK, details and press conferences are readily available.

Currently at the seventh round of negotiations, these took place from Tuesday 18 August to Friday 21 August 2020 in Brussels.  

The Irish Exporters Association has launched a database of companies in Ireland that are producing personal protective equipment (PPE), including companies that already produced PPE as well as companies that have repurposed operations to produce face shields/visors, masks, gowns and aprons and hand sanitiser.

For more information or to have your products included view the database.

Fri 4 Sept | 11am-12pm | Online

Our first speaker is Dr Naomi Masheti, Psychologist and Program Coordinator at Cork Migrant Centre at Nano Nagle Place. This webinar will focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the pathway for government and business in creating an inclusive and sustainable city region.

This is the latest in the series of Chambers Ireland surveys which gathers feedback and opinion from the business community, and we ask for your continued participation and support. This results will inform our advocacy work for the coming months as continue to represent your interests on national and local platforms. 

To date, the data which has been derived from these surveys has underpinned Chamber advocacy in a number of areas including; extending the Commercial Rates waiver; in getting support from the central fund to assist the local authorities which are suffering a budgetary short fall; in shifting the government’s focus from loans to grants, for creating a grant fund for sole-traders, helping to include proprietary directors in the altered EWSS which is to commence early September.

The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation is asking businesses for their input on a new survey, part of the Irish Business and Biodiversity Project, which is examining how business contribution to Ireland’s national biodiversity objectives can be enhanced.

Cork City Council plans to carry out road network and public realm improvement works on MacCurtain Street and a number of roads & streets in the city centre. This consultation will close to observations on the 11^th September. To view the plans for the scheme please see <HERE>.

As always, we encourage you to make a submission to this process. A submission can be as long or as short as you like and feel appropriate. Cork Chamber will be including a submission on this scheme and we also invite your comments to be considered as part of this. Please ensure that you send any comments to Michelle <HERE> no later than noon Friday 4 September.

Mon 21 Sept | 11:30am-1pm | 2 Mornings

Member Price €175

This Practical Productivity training course will provide you with a totally practical and workable solution to managing your workload and time more effectively. Do not let e-mail control your day - instead, you can take control through the customisation of MS Outlook and by using various features & tools within Outlook.

Wed 16 Sept | 11:30am-1pm | 5 Mornings

Member Price €150

This course is suitable for those who are currently using MS Excel regularly but may not have attended formal training recently or may never have attended the training. This online course is for those with a busy schedule and is adaptable to the challenges of every lifestyle.