The College is delighted to be a principal sponsor of The Newry Chamber Annual International Women’s Day Celebration Lunch which will be held on Friday 7th March 2025 in Killeavy Castle Estate.

This year’s theme is #AccelerateAction and guests will enjoy listening to Keynote Speaker, Sósanna Ní Dhubháin, a Composite Lead Engineer at the Aston Martin F1 Team alongside a panel of other inspirational local women who are all high achievers in their respective sporting fields.

Sósanna, is a proud native of Rostrevor and a former student of Sacred Heart Grammar School. She is known for her remarkable impact in Formula 1, starting her journey as a Junior Composite Designer at Team Lotus in 2011.

Lee Campbell, Principal & CEO of Southern Regional College said:

“SRC is thrilled to be sponsoring this year’s International Women’s Day event with Newry Chamber, once again, hosted at the magnificent Killeavy Castle Estate.”

“We pride ourselves on providing a range of supports for females including accredited management training and we are extremely proud that SRC’s senior management team has a healthy balance of female and male directors. The College has a range of health and wellbeing resources as well as family friendly policies to support all employees.”

“We continue to deliver a number of Women Returners programmes to encourage and support women back into the world of work, by providing up-to-date skills, mentoring, confidence building and motivational training which are tailored to individual needs.”

“We are committed to targeting females in our promotional campaigns to ensure there is equality of opportunity for everyone across a range of vocational areas and industry sectors.”