Employment and Skills Support

Enterprising Women

Welcome to Mid & East Antrim’s Women’s Network, a FREE forum for female entrepreneurs in the borough!

Enterprising Women MEA is funded by Council and managed by Carrickfergus Enterprise in partnership with Ballymena Business Centre.

It is a dedicated female network in Mid and East Antrim, that supports new and established female entrepreneurs. 

Enterprising Women MEA has 240 members across the Borough in a range of sectors including Retail, Tourism, Artisan and Professional services.

Women often feel quite isolated when they are running a business and we to create a warm and welcoming environment to help members to connect, grow in confidence, develop their networks and collaborate with like-minded women just like them. 

Enterprising Women MEA provides an interesting and diverse range of events throughout Mid and East Antrim and are launching a new online platform in Autumn 2024 to allow members to be more visible to each other and their wider markets.

Events include Coffee and Chat events where members just meet up and have a chat over coffee about their business or indeed life.

It also delivers a range of workshops in the areas of personal development and management skills to help the member and their business grow.

Past events have included smartphone photography, Video skills, Menopause and Mindset.

It also runs some social events such as Jingle and Mingle afternoon tea and an exchange visit in the past two years to Donegal.

To be eligible to join the network you need to be resident or have a business located in Mid and East Antrim 

If this sounds like something you want to be part off and you don’t want to miss out on future events, join today by completing our online form.