No.8 is opening its doors to a plethora of local crafters and purveyors of fine gifts and food.
This free to entry event will solve your christmas shopping woes and enable you to support local businesses
Entry is free & we have an impressive line up of local folks! Ho Ho Ho
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 20th May 2024
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 4pm
Venue: Smash Marketing Limtied, Sapphire House, Roundtree Way, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 8SQ
Topics
DIY SEO – getting your website found in search.
Google Ads – getting your website found in search quickly.
Email marketing – getting the most out of your database.
Social Media Marketing – which channels to use, how often to post and what to say.
Paid social media marketing. Why you should be paying for some of your messages.
Marketing planning and strategy.
About Beks
Rebecca Houston is a devoted Mum of two and an accomplished marketing professional with a career spanning over two decades. Since 1997, she has been deeply involved in marketing, gaining extensive experience and knowledge. As a fully qualified marketer, Rebecca is recognised as a Chartered Marketer by the prestigious Chartered Institute of Marketing.
In 2018, Rebecca took a leap of faith and founded Smash Marketing, a company dedicated to providing digital marketing solutions. With a passion for sustainability, Rebecca ensures that Smash Marketing operates with green practices, aligning her personal beliefs as an eco-warrior with her professional pursuits.
At Smash Marketing, Rebecca and her team specialise in managing various aspects of digital marketing, including SEO, Google Ads, Social Media Marketing, and email marketing. With a commitment to excellence and a focus on client satisfaction, Rebecca constantly explores innovative strategies to deliver impactful results.
Driven to make a positive difference, Rebecca Houston continues to build upon her extensive marketing expertise, ensuring that Smash Marketing remains at the forefront of the industry and consistently offers cutting-edge solutions to its clients
With presentations from Birketts and Great Yarmouth College on the value of Apprenticeships. If you would like to attend please email [email protected]. Attendance is free to GYC Business Partnership Members. Includes a full English breakfast. Spaces are limited so booking is essential.
Join us at Great Yarmouth for our popular Coastal Co.nnect.
Agenda
08:00 – Event Start and Networking
09:00 – Welcome by Norfolk Chambers of Commerce
09:30 – Networking
10:00 Event Close
Speaker
Rebecca Houston from Smash Marketing will be there to provide her top tips for getting your website seen online.
Who is it for?
Anyone is welcome at this event, and it is open to both members and non-members.
Refreshments
We will be providing a selection of coffee/tea/water and squash. Please inform us of any dietary requirements upon booking.
Cancellation policy
If you have booked tickets for this event and can no longer attend, please notify us at [email protected].
Coaching has become the buzzword. There’s usually a reason for that because it works! We employ people because they have the skills to do the job and then micromanage them and wonder why they get disaffected and leave. Coaching recognises that people have the answers within themselves. This results in happier people and happier workplaces (and more productive too)!
The workshop will cover the following:
About the presenter
Rebecca White is the CEO and Founder of Your Own Place CIC. As a qualified secondary school teacher with years of experience working with people from all backgrounds as well as commissioners, politicians, business people and leaders, Rebecca exemplifies the successful combination of operational, strategic and business experience. What really drives Rebecca is social inequality. By the roll of a dice a person’s life chances are dramatically altered. Homelessness is just one manifestation of this and until people have equality of opportunity Rebecca will work tirelessly to champion disadvantaged people.
Rebecca volunteers as a mentor for HMP Warren Hill and as Enterprise Adviser at The Locksley School.
Your Own Place CIC is an innovative and solution-focussed social enterprise, driven by its values. We are committed to finding new solutions to old problems with the prevention of homelessness as our impact.
Cancellation policy
We only have a maximum of 10 places on this event. If you book a place and are unable to attend, please ensure you cancel your place to allow others to attend. Cancel in writing to [email protected]
Larking Gowen and Adnams invite you to their tourism survey seminar to discuss the results of their 10th annual tourism and leisure business survey.
Speakers from Adnams, Visit East Anglia, Larking Gowen and business owners like you will share their insights and discuss the issues affecting the sector.
Who should attend? Tourism and leisure business owners in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex who are interested in understanding the bigger picture in the tourism and leisure sector.
Where and when? Wednesday, 20 April 2016 – 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Octagon Barn, Hospital Rd, Great Plumstead NR13 5FH
Registration commences at 3.00pm. A full afternoon tea will be served promptly at 3.30pm. Guests are invited to join us for networking and drinks between 5.00pm and 6.00pm.
Leading research company Ipsos MORI has taken a journey into the minds of the region’s business leaders to discover their concerns and strategies for growth. The research, commissioned by Price Bailey, also reveals how business leaders feel about EU membership and international trade, uncovers their perceptions of leadership and explores the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
MORI and Price Bailey will be presenting the full results of the research at Dunston Hall on Tuesday, 26th April at 5:30pm
They will be joined by an expert panel of business professionals including James Sproule of the Institute of Directors; Tim Pike, Deputy Agent for South East and East Anglia at the Bank of England; and Maxine Dolan, formerly Group Leadership Development Director at Tesco who will offer valuable insight into the findings from this bespoke, real-time research and provide their expert opinion on the economic landscape for the region.
The event will also provide a valuable opportunity to network with other regional business leaders.
For more information and to book your place, go to www.pricebailey.co.uk/leaders
What: Building Serverless Applications with AWS & Hackathon 101 – Lessons Learnt
When: Wednesday 13th April 2016, 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Where: The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229484964/
Ian Massingham of AWS returns to Norfolk Developers to give his cancelled NorDevCon 2016 session. Building Serverless Applications with AWS Ian Massingham (@IanMmmm)
It is important that you spend as much time as possible on what differentiates the application or service that you are building. Managing infrastructure can detract from this goal. Attend this session and learn how you can let AWS do the undifferentiated heavy lifting for you whilst you focus on building a robust, scalable and highly available applications and services by utilising AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 and more. Forget about infrastructure and focus on your code and the outcomes that you want to achieve.
Ian Massingham
Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008. In his role he works to increase the awareness of AWS cloud services and works with customers of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises, to help them benefit from the adoption of AWS.
Ian has more than 15 years’ experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting and cloud service providers.
Hackathon 101 – Lessons Learnt Tom Morgan (@tomorgan)
If you’ve never been to a hackathon before, the concept can be daunting. A deadly combination of technical snobbery and social awkwardness? Who wants to spend their free time doing that?! I’ve finally confronted my worst fears and attended my first hackathon – and it was not at all what I expected. Now, I’d like to dispel what I believe are commonly-held myths by those who have never been, as well as dispense some advice to first-time attendees. I’ll keep it light and (hopefully) entertaining, and will cover what I think our team did well, what we could have done better, who we should have listened to, and what was completely different to what I expected.
Tom Morgan
I’m a Skype for Business MVP, working for Modality Systems, a software development company in Norwich. In March, I took part in the Hacking Health hackathon together with a team of other devs and QA from Modality, plus some pharmacy students and business experts we meet at at the event. Our solution (MediPhone) won the People’s Choice award.
What: What’s your biggest time management challenge?
When: Wednesday 16th March 2016, 6.30pm to 9pm
Where: The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/225119249/
Speaker: Ermine Amies (@Sandler_Ermine)
Frustrated by not enough hours in your day? Annoyed that you don’t get everything done on time? Over committed? Drowning in email? Procrastinating when you don’t want to? Not making progress on the really important projects at home or at work?
Ermine has stepped in to replace the speaker who cancelled. This hands on session will help you work out how to take control of your time management hell. If you were at Ermine’s sold out session at NorDevCon, come for a top up and be ready to make a plan to succeed this spring.
If you didn’t go to NorDevCon, then you may have heard Ermine got rave reviews. You’ll be provoked into thinking about where time goes and some practical steps to take to get back into control and improve your results.
Ermine’s no nonsense approach makes this session suitable for everyone – from founders and CEOs to new hires. Her good humour and deep understanding of how the human psyche plays games means you’ll have fun too.
The Silver Pound : a Golden Opportunity
Conference at the King’s Centre, Norwich on Friday 13th May
Norfolk has one of the oldest population profiles in the UK. This conference explores the economic opportunities presented by the ‘silver pound’, and aims to inspire local businesses and entrepreneurs to take advantage of this growing market with innovative products, services and collaborative ventures.
The event is FREE to attend and includes refreshments and a light lunch. Please note there will a £25 charge if you sign up but don’t attend.
Speakers include:
There will be a group discussion on potential business opportunities, and we hope to develop an ongoing network of collaborating businesses.
The Conference is helping to deliver the Norfolk Rural Development Strategy, which identified the ageing population in Norfolk as an important economic opportunity to drive rural growth.
Follow this link to register for the conference, or contact [email protected] with any queries.
Our engagement groups represent local businesses in the community, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk.
As well as having the opportunity to discuss key topics, you’ll also be able to network with fellow businesses.
Our aim is to have groups in many cities, towns, market towns, and villages across Norfolk, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk. These groups are accessible to all businesses, whether you are a Chambers member or a non-member.
These groups will provide you with a platform to debate issues that are most important to you, and your business and the Chamber network will lobby and influence on your behalf, using our dedicated team, our website, social media channels, and our digital platform.
Your feedback will be used by our team and the Chamber’s Board to help shape the strategic direction of Norfolk Chambers to ensure we can truly be the voice of Norfolk businesses.
Whether the local challenge is skills, road, rail, digital infrastructure, recruitment, or the rising costs of doing business, we want to hear from you.
Agenda
8:45 – 9 am Arrival and networking
9 am Welcome from Norfolk Chambers
9.15 am Introductions
9.20 am start conversations
10 am Event close
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming Charities United meeting, bringing together employees, staff, and colleagues from charities across Norfolk. This is a valuable opportunity for us to gather, share insights, and collaborate on the important work we do.
This meetup shall take place at Fuel Studios, Pottergate Norwich, who have kindly offered us the use of their venue and shall be supplying tea and coffee.
Agenda
10am Arrival and networking
10.15am Welcome from Norfolk Chambers and Introductions
10.20 am Start conversations
11.30am Tour of Fuel Studios and networking
12.00pm Event Close
These meet ups are a chance for those working and supporting charities across Norfolk to share and discuss issues that are most important to them, and their business and the Chamber network will support and influence on your behalf, using our dedicated team, our website, social media channels, and our digital platform.
During this meetup, we will discuss TOPICS including:
Event Management – Share what’s working well in your charity and events teams.
Event Planning- Discuss upcoming campaigns, events, and initiatives for the year ahead.
Fundraising for Events