Business professionals make a vital contribution to the Irish arts world

A CONCEPT where employees from Irish businesses volunteer to help arts organisations solve their business problems, was relaunched in Dublin yesterday.

The Business2Arts mentoring programme matches managers from the business community with arts organisations, who may not be able to afford to hire an expert to help with things like business plans, website design and market research.

Employees from AIB, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCooper and AXA have given up their free time, since the programme was first launched five years ago.