Zipporah's overseas projects: Republic of Ireland

Zipporah has always been looking to expand overseas and most recently we have begun to engage with organisations in the Republic of Ireland, not quite as far as Australia whom we have been progressing with for some time now, but overseas nonetheless.

It was on recent business trip to meet with an organisation in Ireland, that I was quite surprised by just how different they were from our own UK organisations, especially since we are only a short hop across the sea. The relaxed nature in the manner in which we were greeted on arrival at the location for the meeting made for a refreshing change, no interrogation into our entire background history or the reason for our visit at the front desk here, just a quick and polite hello, sign in and then sent off to find our own way to the meeting room.

Mind you the simple instructions of “top of the stairs, turn right, then left, right again and at the end of the corridor is your room” in a large building that you have never visited before can in itself present you with a few problems prior to a meeting, fortunately we didn’t make any wrong turns and I hope to be able to report in the near future with some developments on the outcome of our meeting.