Mentors offer support to SMEs in a bid to halt small firm closures

MentorsWork programme will give insights to 900 SME owners and managers in 2025, minimising further small firm casualties

Mark Jordan, CEO, Skillnet Ireland; Denise Lord, MentorsWork, Skillnet network manager; and David Broderick, director of the Small Firms Association, celebating the five-year anniversary of the MentorsWork programme. Picture: Jeff Harvey

Mentors are helping Irish small firms master AI and other new tech, guiding them through the impacts of the energy crisis, inflation, labour shortages, and now the growing risk of a trade war.

David Broderick, director of the Small Firm's Association (SFA), is encouraging SMEs to participate in the latest MentorsWork programme, an initiative of Skillnet Ireland and the SFA.