If you are approaching retirement you may be aware that there is a vast array of options available to you, as a result of the government’s pension freedom legislation. These financial decisions, coupled with making the transition from employment to retirement, may be quite daunting. Lovewell Blake Financial Planning is committed to helping you plan for the financial and emotional impact of retirement on yourself and your family. We are running a series of informal workshops at our Norwich office, which will cover a range of topics to provide useful and informative guidance on how to effectively manage the impact of retirement. Timings:7.45 am arrival and light refreshments 8.00 am start 9.30 am finish We do hope you can join us.
Kick it off and throw it in at a very special game to celebrate the Norwich City Hall of Fame legend Terry (The Count) Allcock.
Legends from local rivals Dereham Town and Fakenham Town will be competing to win the prestigious Cozens Cup at the special Terry Allcock Celebration Game at Aldiss Park, home of Dereham Town FC on Sunday 27 October – 10:30 kick off.
The game has an added edge as the club rivalry that goes back decades and is being repeated this year as both play in the same league.
Before his career ended Terry went on to play 389 games for Norwich. His 127 goals for the club place him second on City’s all-time goalscoring list.
After he finished in the professional game Terry was a much-loved figure in local football, as manager of Dereham Town and Norfolk County FA’s youth teams. It’s fair to say that his legacy means that he is still remembered fondly through Norfolk.
A real all round sportsman Terry also found time to play 45 times for Norfolk County Cricket Club, scoring 1470 runs and being involved in 93 dismissals from his position as wicket keeper – his appearances were restricted by his football duties.
Football Against Dementia, are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that aims to raise awareness and provide practical support around dementia.
They are proud to have been entrusted by the Allcock family, led by Terry’s eldest son Mark (also an ex Dereham Town and Norfolk County player) to stage this game, and welcome the opportunity to use the game to highlight the cruel illness that dementia is.
After the match their will be the unveiling of a plaque in Terry’s memory and a display of ‘The Count’s’ memorabilia, kindly supplied by the Allcock family and others.
Teas/coffees, soft drinks and other refreshments will be available in the clubhouse and to coincide with the event Wolf Brewery will launching their very own Allcock Ale at the game.
The main auction prize will be an authenticated signed shirt by CR7 himself, world soccer superstar Christiano Ronaldo. There will be raffle prizes donated by local businesses and a tombola for younger people.
Match tickets are available every day from the Railway Tavern in Dereham and Dereham Town and Fakenham Town on First Team Match Days.
Protecting your organisation from the ever-increasing sophistication and variation of cyber-attacks is now not only considered important practice but is recognised as a precondition of operational success.
This is why Breakwater IT are hosting the Cyber Security Conference, giving you the chance to hear from industry experts as to how you can overcome security challenges. The aim is to educate – you don’t need to be an IT specialist, this is about giving you the tools to identify cyber threats, enabling you to protect against them.
Join us on December 12 The Forum 8.30am-12noon Refreshments available, including teas, coffees and bacon rolls.
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Forte, Social Engineering and Cyber Security Expert
In 2018 Lisa won the ‘Top 100 Women in Tech’ Awards, recognising her achievements and contributions to the cyber security industry.
Forte began her career in counterterrorism intelligence for a UK Government agency before moving into one of the UK Police CyberCrime Units dealing with serious cybercrime cases both in the UK and abroad.
Lisa will share her experiences of dealing with real-life cybercrime cases, helping you to understand the threats and aftermath of an attack better than statistics ever could.
Microsoft Jonathan Lyon, Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Learn how Microsoft products and services, powered by Intelligent Security Graph, have rapid threat detection and response based on insights from Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and behavioural analytics.
Datto
Discover how you can prevent data loss and minimise downtime with Datto’s business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an exciting idea and want to understand how you can create a thriving business?
Have you got a passion that you want to turn into your ‘side hustle’?
Or are you an early-stage startup and want to see if you’re doing things the right way and identify ways to improve your business?
Activate follows the Lean Startup process, creating and developing our idea in short cycles allowing us to gather feedback to influence changes in the business. Taking place one session a week for four weeks, Activate allows you to work through a plan of action in a more interactive and structured way, giving you the time to reflect. The Activate programme has been designed to allow you to work with peers in a similar situation to yourself, allowing you to build your own support network and champion one another.
The Four Week Programme:
Week 1 – 27th April – Ideas & Assumptions
In session one we take a closer look at your idea and understand what value it brings to your customers. Creating a Customer and Product Canvas we can then begin to look at implementing ways that the product and the process of purchase can be more effective; giving you a greater chance of creating an attractive product or service.
Week 2 – 4th May – Customers & Marketing
In session two we begin to examine your targeted customers in more detail. Who are they? Why do they buy from you? How can we best access them? During this session, we will create our own Customer Profiles highlighting who our targeted groups are, and then we will go about creating a Marketing Strategy to best access at the earliest opportunity.
Week 3 – 11th May – Your Operations
In session three we focus more on you, and your ability to create the product or service you are providing. Through the creation of an Operations Map, we will be able to understand what a typical process from start to finish will be for the creation of goods, allowing you to remove clunky actions and streamline the process. Here we also begin to plan how you can remove risks from your operations and accentuate the potential rewards!
Week 4 – 18th May – Business Model & Vision
And finally, in session four, we bring together everything from the previous three sessions and create your Business Model Canvas. Here you will be able to see everything that you will be doing externally (attracting, engaging and communicating with customers) and internally (activities, partners and resources). Once the business model has been created we will then begin to create a Vision and the actions you need to perform to get there.
All of this combines into creating a more visual and accessible business plan, rather than the traditional approach of creating document after document trying to define your business! The team of Innovation Advisors from Hethel Innovation will be there to help guide you through this process, and for continued support following the course. We are committed to building business in East Anglia and are here to help!
Previous Activate Attendees:
“The Activate course helps you to take your idea, refine it, focus it, and move forward”
“It was great, very galvanizing & useful. Thanks!””Really good course, very engaging + helped me focus my efforts””Great sessions, the trainers were involved and helped each of us with our journeys. Great helping others, helps to broaden & strengthen perspectives”
Hethel Innovation is an EU-funded business support organisation, providing support to Norfolk and Suffolk’s business environment to innovate and become more productive and competitive as a result. Hethel Innovation also provides incubation services through Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park.
Our final Autumn Masterclass delves into the power of collaboration for driving growth. It discusses various types of collaborative strategies, including strategic partnerships, co-branding, and innovation through collaboration. The session emphasizes the role of collaborative ecosystems in enhancing resilience and innovation, with case studies that demonstrate how partnerships can create significant value and competitive advantage.
Key Topics:
Understanding Collaborative Growth:
Defining collaborative growth and its role in modern business strategy. * Exploring the benefits of leveraging partnerships and ecosystems to drive sustainable growth. Types of Collaborative Strategies:
Strategic Partnerships: Long-term alliances for mutual benefit. * Co-Branding: Joint product or service offerings that leverage the strengths of multiple brands. * Open Innovation: Collaborating with external entities like startups, universities, or even competitors to drive innovation. * Industry Consortia: Collaborations within industries to address common challenges. Building Strategic Partnerships:
Key steps in forming and maintaining successful partnerships, including aligning objectives, defining roles, and maintaining communication. Innovation through Collaboration:
How joint efforts in R&D and product development can lead to breakthrough innovations. Collaborative Ecosystems:
Understanding ecosystems as networks of interconnected companies, suppliers, and partners that create and share value. Challenges in Collaborative Growth:
Addressing the complexities of coordination, trust, and control in collaborative ventures. * Mitigation Strategies: Establishing clear governance structures, agreements, and trust-building measures.
Agenda
Introductions
Collaborative Growth Strategies Richard Ross
Guest Speaker Clarke Willis
Group discussions
Questions and Close
Our Guest Speaker. Clarke Willis MBE, FRAgS.Clarke is Director of the Norfolk Food Enterprise Park which is developing major food processing facilities for the agrifood supply chain in the Eastern region.
The Masterclass will last around two hours with questions and be of interest to senior decision-makers in organisations that are keen to scale-up. Coffee or tea and exceptionally fine cake will be served.
On Friday 8th November, The Salvation Army are hosting a Festival of Remembrance in aid of Walking With The Wounded (WWTW), featuring RockavoX, Norwich Citadel band and local soloists.
WWTW invites you to join us for a pre-concert networking event, before sitting down to watch the concert together. Light refreshments will be provided.
Timing:
18:15-19:30 – Pre-Concert Networking
19:30-21:30 – ‘A Night To Remember’: Festival of Remembrance
Learn how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection!
About this Event
Right now a project is failing. Projects fail or suffer delays every single day. The failure of projects is almost never technology. It is because of poor management of people and tasks!
Agile project management is a way of approaching a project using small and powerful teams. These teams take greater ownership of tasks, understand the bigger picture and work on a cycle of continuous improvement to accelerate towards being the best they can be.
Get Agile in a Day
This session will provide you with an overview of what Agile project management is, where it comes from and the potential power it has for small teams. In this workshop, we will be discussing how you can apply Agile to all kinds of project management, and the session will be an interactive experience for you to learn Agile and Scrum Framework concepts. Further, the day will provide you with clear and engaging demonstrations of how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection and we will also share some quick wins with you to help you get started on your Agile journey.
What you will get from attending this workshop:
5 hours of Agile training
A good working understanding of Agile Project Management and the Scrum basics such as values, principles, roles and artifacts
Hands-on and practical exercises
Take-home material from the session that will aid you in starting your Agile journey and that you also can share with colleagues and use to practice further
Access to all supporting course material, including post-access to the Miro board that will be used during the session
Networking opportunities during breakout rooms and other interactive exercises
Following the session, the Business Development Team at Hethel Innovation will be available to make 1-1 appointments to help you and your team become more Agile!
Who is this session for?
• Anyone who is unsure if Agile is the right approach for them
• Anyone who manages a team and wants to improve productivity
• Anyone who wants to improve communication amongst a team
• Anyone who is sick of projects running past deadlines
• Anyone who needs greater cohesion and team focus
Agile Project Management is a course provided by Hethel Innovation as part of the Breakthrough project. This project is for the support of SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk. As such you may not qualify for entry as we have to abide by specific eligibility criteria. Sign up for a ticket and we will be in touch to confirm eligibility.
Delivered by Rikke Nagell-Kleven from Hethel Innovation. Rikke is an Innovation Advisor in the Business Development Team with a background from both molecular medicine and business management and has experience from working in high demand environments. From the daily pressure of working in a hospital laboratory, through to being an elite swimmer for several years, productivity has always been key for Rikke and she is always looking for opportunities to improve herself.
Have you recently started a business and want to see if you’re doing things the right way and identify ways to improve?
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an exciting idea and want to understand how you can create a thriving business?
Or are you looking to launch a new product or service in your business?
Utilising content from our successful ‘Activate‘ series, which over the past 6 years has helped 100’s of aspiring entrepreneurs across Norfolk and Suffolk, Build a Business in a Day helps the time-poor and idea-rich to develop an idea and turn it into a feasible and sustainable venture.
Build a Business in a Day helps you to develop your idea and your business in an accelerated way. Using the Lean Startup approach, we help you to gain customer insight and use it to influence decision making and create a business that is wanted by, and works for, the customer; ensuring the success and potential of your venture.
What Will We Cover:
Over the course of the day, we will cover a variety of topics in a collaborative and exciting way to help you explore your ideas and turn them into real actions, including:
What makes a great idea – and how to make yours work
Who your customers are – for today and for tomorrow
How to market your business – creating an effective sales process
What your typical day looks like – and removing the risks
How you will grow – building a business model ready to scale
What your future looks like – and how you can get there
If you should register – all the pros and cons
Who Should Attend:
Using dynamic interactive tools that benefit individuals and businesses at varying stages of their development, Build a Business in a Day has been designed to help:
Anyone with a business idea they’d like to explore further.
Anyone with a side-business/part-time business that wants to make it their full-time work.
A recently started business looking to connect to other local entrepreneurs and establish operations and strategy.
An established business looking to add a new product or service to their range.
What Will You Get:
We’ve all been on training and events where you leave with high hopes of implementing something into your business, home, or general life, but lose the motivation to do so. In Build a Business in a Day you will get the following to make sure you know how to take your idea forwards:
A copy of the slides from the day.
The Build a Business in a Day ‘Toolkit’ – contains the tools provided on the day as well as other resources to continue your progress.
‘Strategic Action Cards’ – A Hethel Innovation-designed tool to help you turn your thoughts into realistic actions.
Continued mentoring from the Hethel Innovation team (If you meet the eligibility criteria – see below).
Eligibility Criteria:
Build a Business in a Day is part of Hethel Innovation’s ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) project ‘Breakthrough’, which support aspiring entrepreneurs and SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk, providing 12 hours of bespoke support to help businesses become more innovative, productive and competitive.
Following the completion of Build a Business in a Day, businesses that meet the following criteria will gain access to a further 6 hours of support:
You are based in Norfolk or Suffolk, UK
You are a business that employs less than 250 people.
You are a business with a turnover of no more than £41m.
What Have Others Said:
Build a Business in a Day is a new event which utilises content from our hugely successful ‘Activate’ series:
“Great sessions, the trainers were involved and helped each of us with our journeys. Great helping others, helps to broaden & strengthen perspectives” – Rob T
“Having been on a plethora of courses throughout the years, I was really impressed at how useful the Activate training actually was. I found it so helpful, thought-provoking, encouraging and was provided with a process for looking at our new business proposition from the start to where you aspire it to go. Thank you.” – Jane H
Hethel Innovation is an EU-funded business support organisation, providing support to Norfolk and Suffolk’s business environment to innovate and become more productive and competitive as a result. Hethel Innovation also provides incubation services through Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park.
If you’d like to know if Build a Business in a Day is for you, please contact Jordan at [email protected]
Learn how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection!
About this event
Right now a project is failing. Projects fail or suffer delays every single day. The failure of projects is almost never technology. It is because of poor management of people and tasks!
Agile project management is a way of approaching a project using small and powerful teams. These teams take greater ownership of tasks, understand the bigger picture and work on a cycle of continuous improvement to accelerate towards being the best they can be.
Get Agile in a Day
This session will provide you with an overview of what Agile project management is, where it comes from and the potential power it has for small teams. In this workshop, we will be discussing how you can apply Agile to all kinds of project management, and the session will be an interactive experience for you to learn Agile and Scrum Framework concepts. Further, the day will provide you with clear and engaging demonstrations of how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection and we will also share some quick wins with you to help you get started on your Agile journey.
What you will get from attending this workshop:
5 hours of Agile training
A good working understanding of Agile Project Management and the Scrum basics such as values, principles, roles and artifacts
Hands-on and practical exercises
Take-home material from the session that will aid you in starting your Agile journey and that you also can share with colleagues and use to practice further
Access to all supporting course material, including post-access to the Miro board that will be used during the session
Networking opportunities during breakout rooms and other interactive exercises
Following the session, the Business Development Team at Hethel Innovation will be available to make 1-1 appointments to help you and your team become more Agile!
Who is this session for?
• Anyone who is unsure if Agile is the right approach for them
• Anyone who manages a team and wants to improve productivity
• Anyone who wants to improve communication amongst a team
• Anyone who is sick of projects running past deadlines
• Anyone who needs greater cohesion and team focus
Agile Project Management is a course provided by Hethel Innovation as part of the Breakthrough project. This project is for the support of SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk. As such you may not qualify for entry as we have to abide by specific eligibility criteria. Sign up for a ticket and we will be in touch to confirm eligibility.
Delivered by Rikke Nagell-Kleven from Hethel Innovation. Rikke is an Innovation Advisor in the Business Development Team with a background from both molecular medicine and business management and has experience from working in high demand environments. From the daily pressure of working in a hospital laboratory, through to being an elite swimmer for several years, productivity has always been key for Rikke and she is always looking for opportunities to improve herself.
