Business

Funding music to their ears

* ENTERPRISING: Rebecca Steele, front, helps announce the funding from Ulster Bank's parent company RBS at the Oh Yeah Music Centre with, from left, Stuart Bailie, CEO of Oh Yeah, Colin Jess from Ulster Bank, RBS's Andrew Cave and Charlotte Dryden, creative development manager of the Oh Yeah. A youth mentoring project at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast is one of three Northern Ireland winners in a recent round of funding for youth enterprise from RBS. Under its Inspiring Enterprise programme, RBS is providing £95,000 to Northern Ireland projects as part of £500,000 in grants being allocated each year for three years to organisations across the UK. These are intended to help young people explore enterprise, develop their skills and start-up in business. Other Northern Ireland projects receiving funding this year are the Work West Enterprise Agency's Arise project in West Belfast, which has been awarded almost £46,000, and the NXT-GENBIZ project, based at Fermanagh Enterprise, which will use just more than £20,000 of funding to help 24 young people from the west of Northern Ireland take the next step in becoming entrepreneurs PICTURE: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye