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Last week was an exciting one for Siel Bleu: we had the honour of being chosen by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland to participate to their annual SEI Impact Awards Bootcamp!

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) is an organisation that supports and helps social entrepreneurs to increase their potential to impact upon challenges in Ireland. Since 2004, they have supported 179 social entrepreneurs and invested 5.82 million euros in causes they believe in. Every year, SEI holds an open call for applications followed by a multi-stage selection process to determine the projects they will support that year. Siel Bleu Ireland had the pleasure to be selected and was represented by Thomas McCabe, National Manager, at the boot camp on Thursday 28^th of May.

This full day workshop was the opportunity to pitch Siel Bleu to a panel of judges. Thomas also attended different workshops on a range of topics.

“It was really exciting and I really enjoyed meeting all these wonderful people and to learn more about the work they do,” said Thomas, “this is a great challenge for Siel Bleu and all the team is looking forward to finding out if we have reached the next level and are still in the running to be supported by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland!”

Between June and July 2015, the chosen applicants will be invited to submit further information about their programme and to take part in a final interview. Then SEI will select their final awardees that will receive this vital support.

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