Border People User Group(6) – Developing Your Cross-Border Business

2 September 2011
Radisson Blu Hotel, Letterkenny, 9am – 3pm

The Centre for Cross Border Studies in partnership with the North South Ministerial Council Joint Secretariat manages the Border People website – www.BorderPeople.info. Border People provides an online signposting service for people who wish to move across the border to live, work or study. This website includes information on issues such as taxation, social security, job seeking, health, banking, education, housing and telecommunications.

As part of this initiative we hold regular seminars which address particular barriers to cross-border mobility which previously have included issues for cross-border workers, cross-border banking and consumer issues.

The sixth seminar Developing Your Cross Border Business took place on the 2 September 2011 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Letterkenny from 9am – 3pm. This event organised in colaboration with the IBEC CBI Joint Business Council was aimed at businesses based in the border region or businesses who work across the border and will cover issues such as cross-border employment law; sourcing bank finance for a cross-border business; cross-border business taxes; debt-collection; accessing business grants in each jurisdiction; cross-border business succession and the public tendering and procurement procedure.

Frontier workers or organisations or individuals with an interest in specific aspects of cross-border employment are welcome to attend and your input would be most welcome. Feedback from participants is invaluable in helping us to shape the content of the Border People website as we continue to develop.

For further information about Border People contact Joe Shiels j.shiels@qub.ac.uk telephone 028 3751 5291.

PROGRAMME

9am	Registration, Coffee & Networking opportunity
9.15am	Welcome by Joe Shiels Border People Project Manager
9.25am	Presentation from Grainne Kelly, entrenpreneur and creator of the BubbleBum Child Car Booster Seat
	Strand 1	Strand 2
SESSION ONE	Chaired by Sinead McLaughlin, Chief Executive at The Londonderry Chamber of Commerce	Chaired by Margaret Hearty, Director of Programmes & Business Services InterTradeIreland
9.45am	Cross-Border Employment Law Brian Morgan, Morgan McManus Solicitors	Challenges facing SME’s & Support Mechanisms John Trethowan, Credit Review Office Ireland
10.30am	Sourcing Bank Finance for a Cross-Border Business FPM Accountants	Debt Collection – Top 10 Tips Brian Morgan, Morgan McManus Solicitors
11.15am	Coffee Break
SESSION TWO	Strand 1	Strand 2
11.30am	Cross-Border Business Taxes Desi Foley, FPM Accountants	Accessing Business Grants in each jurisdictionPaddy Savage, InterTradeIreland
12.15pm	Public Tendering and Procurement Procedures Colin Borland, Bid Specialist, Bid Management Services	Cross Border Business Succession and related Tax Issues Rose Tierney, Tierney Tax Consultancy and Fergal McManus, Morgan McManus Solicitors and Registered Tax Advisor
1pm-2pm	Buffet Lunch with a keynote address by Andrew Potter on the business opportunities of the Derry~Londonderry City of Culture 2013
2pm-3pm	Digital Social media for the SME – the basics Nicola Bates, Grow Sales Online