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This time last year we were telling your about our experience at the Social Entrepreneurs Bootcamp and this year we are delighted to announce we have been chosen as one of the six finalists in the running to receive the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Impact Award.

Since 2004, Social Entrepreneurs Ireland have supported 190 social entrepreneurs, investing more than €6.26 million in their projects, as well as providing significant training and mentoring supports.

The Impact Programme supports social entrepreneurs with established and effective projects that have the potential to scale significantly – creating widespread and long term social impact.

Of the six social enterprises up for the Impact Programme, three projects will be chosen and will receive €100,000 in funding as well as direct support from the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland team valued in excess of €40,000.

We are delighted to be in the final six for the Impact Finalist Programme 2016 in such great company as Dress for Success, The AT Network, Recreate, Lakers and A Lust for Life.

According to the Social Entrepreneurs website, “The Impact programme runs for 2 years, allowing Awardees to develop not only a robust growth plan but to begin the process of implementation as well – all of which results in a substantial increase in the positive social impact of their organisations.”

“The SEI Impact Award is the most prestigious award available to social enterprises in Ireland,” says Thomas McCabe, Siel Bleu National Manager, “Receiving this award would be recognition of the strides that Siel Bleu Ireland has made in recent years. It would help to scale us on a national level in order to achieve our aim of offering affordable and accessible exercise programmes to more and more members of Ireland’s senior population and in turn provide employment to more than thirty people in the next five years.”

The Awardees will be announced on the 11^th October 2016.