Dear Member,   

In this week's ezine we offer employers advice on hiring temporary staff for the festive season.

Each week in the SFA e-zine, we profile a different government support available to small businesses. In this edition, we focus on tax relief for new start-up companies, which offers up to €120,000 corporation tax relief to companies in their first three years.

We bring you a paper from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation on their response to Brexit. We update you on the SFA's participation in the EU SME Assembly, which took place in Talinn last week. Find out more about SFA, Director Sven Spollen-Behrens presenting on Brexit as part of the Meath Enterprise week.

We invite members to attend the SFA AGM on 29 November. Register to attend the SFA Members Christmas evening on 14 December for an evening of festive networking. Book a place on one of our training courses during December on project management and performance management. Save 1 February 2018 in your diary for our new event, Business Connect. We also provide a summary of recent press coverage.

As always, we’d love to hear from you about any queries you may have, issues you wish to have raised with Government or other stakeholders and your ideas on how we can improve the business environment for us all. Please contact me on tel: 01 605 1602 or e-mail: sven@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind regards, 

Sven Spollen-Behrens

SFA Director