School of Social Sciences, Law, and Education

 

In addition to being a full time full time Firefighter and Paramedic with Dublin Fire Brigade working out of the North Strand Fire Station, Neil McCabe is a serial social entrepreneur, having founded many social and sustainability focused enterprises.  Neil is currently the CEO and Founder of several Irish enterprises:

The GreenPlan is a Social Enterprise that empowers society to tackle climate change. They do this this by asking communities and businesses to follow a step-by-step licensed programme to save money, reduce emissions, and help society. The GreenPlan is live in more than 50 countries.

Grown Forest is a joined-up collection of land sweeps all over Ireland used for the protection of millions of years old eco systems and the planting of native trees. Grown Forest provides native trees as gift solutions and offsetting for businesses and individuals alike.

Grown Clothing is a multi award winning clothing brand - based in Dublin, with a massive network of followers and fellow disruptors in the fight against Fast Fashion and the fashion industry at large. Its slogan “Clothes shouldn’t cost the Earth” is now synonymous as the tag line with their rolling slow movement.

Purpose Beyond Profit is a gift solutions and merchandising provider for all forms of events and corporates. The profits are used to help upkeep and develop the work at Grown Forest.

GreenÓir offers premium environmental consultancy services and renewable technologies to the market as well as facilitating training and a suite of professional and technical services.

Water Stations Ireland provides the world’s first Smart Water Stations and state of the art hydration points for use in the public realm, schools, sports clubs, and major events. The company specialises in high tech IoT built inside marine grade steel street furniture and offer Solar Stations as a compliment, to provide free renewable energy to power our units.

As a serial social entrepreneur, Neil is particularly interested in enterprise for social and environmental good. He believes there is a major moment right now to create real change, stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and provide for a better environment.  In this context he is interested to work with students interested in all forms of entrepreneurialism and strategies to create exit companies and sustainable products. In this regard, Neil offer particular advice in vision planning and strategies to deliver that vision. He has a particular focus on the circular economy and helping to develop well thought out infrastructure to facilitate future business concepts.

When not working, Neil enjoys year-round open water sea swimming in north County Dublin.

 

A message from Niall

“I am really looking forward to seeing this programme kicking off and I have many ideas and thoughts on how to maximize the impact of my Entrepreneurial Ambassador tenure. I will be on hand to listen to the students concepts and will offer advice.

Recently I was talking with students as a guest speaker, and I was really taken back by their level of enthusiasm and spirt. This has motivated me to accept the invitation to join TU Dublin as an Entrepreneurial Ambassador with the GROWTHhub project and the Office of the VP for Sustainability. There’s a lot to look forward to, I hope we have enough time!”

 

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How Social Entrepreneurship can contribute to the SDGs – Neil McCabe

https://youtu.be/oDyy0Qj_8MM

 

 

The GROWTHhub project is a HEA funded project that is working to build student entrepreneurship competences by linking with the TU Dublin entrepreneurship ecosystem.