About us - Donegal Women in Business

This Network is Your Network

Would you like your brand associated with a women’s group with over 200 active members covering all sectors?

Joining a professional women’s network provides not just access to role models, but provides career-boosting contacts, mentoring and confidence-boosting support too.

“For women to advance professionally, we need to exploit our one true advantage –

a strong female support group. The support system and gender-specific career advice that women can provide other women are crucial to career advancement. Female mentorship in the workplace is more important than ever. Let’s band together so that tomorrow’s female leaders emerge from today’s inner circle.”

Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 2019

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Our members have businesses/work in many different areas such as

A network for every woman in business

200+ members and membership fee is only €65!

A bit more About us…

Our story begins in 1998 when the then Donegal County Enterprise Board (the forerunner to the Local Enterprise Office) made the decision to develop a dedicated support programme to promote and support female entrepreneurship in County Donegal. At the time the Board had four female directors and these along with some other women became the steering committee for the initiative. The Board, through its executive, was successful in an application for funding that enabled it to appoint the first dedicated sector-specific executive (Anne Turbett) to drive the project forward.

The large crowd at their inaugural meeting in Kees Hotel in 1999 was an indication of the level of interest shown by budding female entrepreneurs in the county. This was followed by the official launch of the Network in 2000.

Over the years, the ongoing success of the network has been driven by the members themselves, led by various committees representing the sector with support from the Local Enterprise Office. A common theme throughout has been to create a strong support network and in doing so build confidence, contacts and skills.

The Donegal Women in Business Network has emerged into an ambitious, dynamic and diverse group which brings together women in different stages of business development, from startup to expansion and everything in-between.

We provide a forum for women in business in the county of Donegal to share their experiences, network and to discuss topical business issues affecting women.

We run seminars/workshops throughout the year based on the identified needs of the members. It’s not all work though, the Network also runs a number of social events, which provide a welcome respite from daily business life, and are a great way to have some fun while getting to know other members.

The Network is open to all women with an interest in business. Whether you are the owner of the business or involved in running the business either as a partner, family member or manager.

Most of the events are cost-free (paid for out of the subscriptions) and any additional costs are kept as low as possible so as to facilitate as many as possible to attend.

Meet our Committee

Our Committee consists of network members who kindly give their time
voluntarily to keep things running smoothly