(l to r) Gaye Moore, Business Mentor and founder of The Women's Business with Elaine Sparling, Founder, Hummingbird Learning Centre (Photo: Morning Star Photography)
On the 24th of May, local entrepreneur and businesswoman Elaine Sparling, founder of Hummingbird Learning Centre scooped not one but two awards at the National Vodafone Start Up Awards in Dublin.
Please see below the press release with all the details about her win but I would just like to congratulate Elaine on winning the accolade and say well done also on Newstalk on Sunday morning last and on all the coverage today in the Limerick Leader, Limerick Post & Sunday Business Post online!
Well done to Shauna Kennedy of Morning Star Photography on taking such great pix too which were used in the media today.
Elaine also attributes much of her success to the support of her friends and colleagues in Gaye Moore's TWB , The Women's Business Referral Network .
Great example of a small business using PR to maximise their exposure.!
Best of luck for the future Elaine and for your forthcoming Family Literacy Day planned for the 7th of July at the University of Limerick, further details to be announced soon!
Niamh
Elaine also attributes much of her success to the support of her friends and colleagues in Gaye Moore's TWB , The Women's Business Referral Network .
Great example of a small business using PR to maximise their exposure.!
Best of luck for the future Elaine and for your forthcoming Family Literacy Day planned for the 7th of July at the University of Limerick, further details to be announced soon!
Niamh
PRESS
RELEASE
Local Limerick business scoops Gold
& Bronze in National Vodafone
Start Up Awards
(5th June
2012) Limerick business Hummingbird Learning Centre, which helps children
and adults to overcome learning difficulties, has scooped two prizes in the
2012 Vodafone Start Up of the Year Awards.
Elaine Sparling, founder of the Hummingbird Learning Centre
from Adare Co. Limerick, was presented with Gold in the Service Industry
Category for her business and Bronze in the Social Enterprise category at the
recent Awards ceremony in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.
The Awards
are about recognising young, exciting, entrepreneurial Irish companies across all sectors of the Irish economy.
Bobby Kerr, of RTE’s Dragons Den and Awards Judge said, “The judges felt that Hummingbird Learning Centre should be
awarded gold for a great system of literacy and numeracy teaching, which was
unique, innovative and appealing to people. They identified a social issue and
developed a strong solution and a teaching method which will change people’s
lives.”
Speaking about the Awards,
Elaine Sparling said, “We are thrilled that
educational needs were recognised as being important through these Awards. Many
people struggle with traditional learning methods because they see the world in
a different way to everyone else. Through working with people to identify their
individual learning style, we help overcome difficulties and turn learning into
a positive experience. Often, these people are the innovators and entrepreneurs
of tomorrow who will create a better future for us all.”
Based in Adare, Co Limerick,
Hummingbird Learning Centre was set up in 2011. Through the Hummingbird Method
developed by Elaine Sparling, the Centre specialises in helping adults and
children with learning difficulties from mild spelling and maths issues to
learning difficulties associated with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder) and other conditions.
Effective learning requires certain basic skills from stress
reduction to time management to name but a few. Through The
Hummingbird Method these essential skills, when mastered, allow people to store
and recall information easily, faster and more effectively.
In addition to offering specialised learning programmes for
children, teens and adults, Hummingbird Learning Centre offers support to
parents, teachers and others who are helping people to learn and grow.
A Family
Literacy Day is planned by Hummingbird Learning Centre for 7th of
July at the University of Limerick, further details to be announced.
Further information
will be available on www.hummingbirdlearningcentre.com or on
facebook.com/hummingbirdlearningcentre and Twitter @HummingbirdLC.
Ends.
More about Elaine Sparling & The Hummingbird Method™
Elaine Sparling is originally from Derryquay, Tralee, Co.
Kerry, daughter of Liam & Sheila Sayers. A Master Neuro Linguistic
Programming (NLP) Practitioner, she created the Hummingbird
Method™ to help adults and children overcome the effects of various
learning difficulties and disabilities. Elaine also mentors at Coder Dojo,
Limerick. Further details are available on Elaine’s Linked In profile, www.linkedin.com/in/elainesparling.
Elaine
is available for interviews, contact her on Tel: + 353 87 299 6054.
Effective learning requires certain basic
skills that almost any child or adult can learn with proper coaching and
motivation. These essential learning skills
include areas such as stress reduction; focus & attention; organization;
reading; spelling; handwriting; vocabulary memorization; memorization of
abstract information; memorizing maths facts; telling time; goal setting and
others.
Through The Hummingbird Method™ these
essential skills, when mastered, allow you to store and recall information
easily, faster and more effectively. Learning becomes an easy, naturally
successful activity and confidence soars.
More about the Vodafone Start Up Awards
The Vodafone Startup Awards had 15 categories in total
and represented entries from young Irish Companies, Partnerships or Sole
Traders trading in the Republic of Ireland, privately owned, in business for
less than three years on March 1st 2012 and employing 30 staff or less. See www.startupawards.ie for a complete list
of winners and further details about the Awards.