The Go For It programme offers free support and guidance for people with a business idea in Northern Ireland sp goforitnews
Four of Northern Ireland’s top new entrepreneurs came together this week in South Belfast to discuss their unique business journeys, and the help and support they have received from the Go For It programme, a free advice and mentoring scheme part-funded by Invest Northern Ireland and the European Regional Development Fund.
Six years after leaving school and serving an informal apprenticeship in a number of local businesses, she is now the proud owner of The Ticket Bakehouse, a thriving café and bakery located at Cullybackey railway station near Ballymena. “But as well as the logistical stuff, it was the confidence that it gave me. It geed me on and it made me feel like, 'Okay, this man's telling me that I could do this, so I'm gonna go and do it'.”
For Melanie Harrison, the owner of the hotel we’re sitting in, The Harrison Chambers of Distinction on Belfast’s Malone Road, Go For It was all about the pathways that it has set her on. John McCourt, a heavily-bearded 32-year-old from Newtownabbey, was shopping online for beard care products when a friend suggested that he should have a go at making his own.
“Just to have that all in one place was so simple and it took a lot of fear away, instead of having to worry about all these different things in different places.”
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