Dear Member,   

In this week's e-zine, we advise on the steps employers should take to prevent harassment in the workplace.

Each week in the SFA e-zine, we will profile a different government support available to small businesses, in this edition we focus on the InterTradeIreland Acumen programme, which can help boost sales in Northern Ireland with financial and recruitment support.

SFA has started communicating the small business priorities for Budget 2018 and we are calling for member input. Find out how to feature your business in the summer edition of SFA's award-winning magazine, Better Business.

If you missed last week's webinar on disciplinary and dismissal you have the chance to play it back and tune into our webinar tomorrow (26 April) on how to get the most out of your SFA membership. Register to attend the next Business Bytes on 10 May, focusing on how to take control of your business costs. Find details of a DCU Business Matchmaker event on 11 May to meet face-to-face with experts who are actively engaged in research that has applications across many industry sectors. We have announced some of the speaker line-up for the SFA Annual Conference, Better than Best, on 24 May in the RDS you can also still take advantage of the early bird 2 for 1 ticket offer. 

Don't miss your last chance to attend our project management course which on 28 April. 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 directly at tel: 01 605 1602 or e-mail: patricia.callan@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind Regards, 

Patricia Callan 

SFA Director