Join us at Little Massingham Manor, in the heart of the Norfolk countryside. The Manor offers a calm and inspiring setting to step away from the day-to-day and make meaningful business connections.
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].
Why not take advantage of our Summerfest offer of a two course lunch or Dinner (dine before 7pm) with a glass of wine or soft drink for just £10.00 pp. An ideal way to experience St Benedicts Restaurant, Pinocchios or The Library Restaurant for a business, celeration or just an excuse to meet up with friends.
Bottomless Brunch in style in our WinePress Restaurant or pretty courtyard. Enjoy 90 minutes of bottomless prosecco, lager and a selection of cocktails, plus a delicious main from our brunch menu.
Gather your friends and call us on 01603 272010 to reserve your table.
For groups of 10 or more call our events team on 01603 272008 or email [email protected]
LinkedIn continues to be the leading platform for professional networking and business development—and its potential for micro to medium-sized businesses is immense. This practical and insightful session is designed to help you harness LinkedIn as a strategic tool to build relationships, elevate your personal brand, and drive meaningful business growth.
Meet the Trainer
Mark White, known as “The LinkedIn Professional”, after a 12 year career in international sales & marketing, Mark has dedicated the last 15 years exclusively to training teams and individuals on LinkedIn, with the focus primarily around its application to business development, marketing, personal branding and recruitment.
These small group in-person workshops are open to any business, freelancer, or charity based in North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk.
This advanced workshop is designed for small business owners who are ready to take their AI projects to the next level. Through guided mentoring, live demonstrations, and peer collaboration, you’ll explore how to build scalable, secure, and context-aware AI solutions tailored to your business needs.
Whether you’re refining a GPT, building a new automation, or testing a fresh idea, this session offers practical insights and hands-on support to help you move from experimentation to implementation.
What You’ll Learn ✅ Check-In & Applied Insights
Reflect on what worked and what didn’t in your previous AI projects
Share key insights, challenges, and standout outcomes with the group
Identify common patterns and learn how to scale GPTs and automations into repeatable, embedded workflows
🔐 Private AI & Sensitive Data
Introduction to privacy-first AI using local/private LLMs (e.g. StudioLM)
Learn how to run internal knowledge assistants entirely offline—ideal for legal, confidential, or IP-sensitive tasks
Discuss the trade-offs between privacy, cost, and trust, and debunk common myths around AI privacy
🔧 Advanced Tool Integration (MCP)
Deep dive into Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and advanced tool usage
Explore how AI can retrieve, integrate, and reason across multiple data sources and services
Build smarter workflows that connect your GPTs to live databases, spreadsheets, and applications
🚀 Mini Hackathon & Mentoring
Choose a goal: improve a GPT, build a new automation, or test a new idea
Receive live feedback, optimisation tips, and troubleshooting support
Share progress and insights with the group to learn from diverse use cases
Workshop Outcome
By the end of this session, you’ll have:
Built and tested multiple working prototypes tailored to your business
Gained clarity on when to use public vs private AI
Hands-on experience with advanced GPTs and tools that go beyond simple prompting—grounded in context, automation, and real-world business needs
Who Should Attend
Small business owners with prior experience using AI tools
Entrepreneurs looking to scale or refine their AI workflows
Anyone seeking practical mentoring and advanced use case development
Spaces are limited – reserve your place today and take your AI projects to the next level!
Meet the Trainer Giancarlo Erra is a seasoned tech-creative entrepreneur and business consultant with over 25 years of experience across multiple industries. As a professional touring musician, his unique background bridges the worlds of technology and creativity, giving him a distinctive edge in using innovative solutions to drive business growth and streamline operations. As a former developer and technical director, Giancarlo has led projects ranging from full?stack development and system administration to AI-driven applications, providing tailored consultancy to SMEs and startups. His extensive experience includes founding Promethean Box Ltd, an umbrella company including AI-driven startups like Tweetify It, a tool for generating personalised social media content, and Copyforge, which helps automate blog and article creation. As the founder of YourVault.AI, he is currently developing private AI solutions to help small and micro-businesses deploy AI models securely on their own data. A public speaker and mentor, he regularly organises AI Summits and hackathons, helping businesses and individuals easily adopt AI tools and focusing on practical applications that deliver real value
Registration at 9am, workshop starts at 9.15am. There will be a refreshments on arrival and mid-morning.
Eligibility: These small group in-person workshops are open to any trading business, freelancer, or charity based North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, West Norfolk & King’s Lynn districts in Norfolk, UK. Norwich, Breckland, South Norfolk & Broadland please contact your district council for business support.
Due to our funding , spaces are limited to one per company. If you would like to check availability for additional spaces please contact [email protected]
Export documentation helps businesses move goods more efficiently and can financially benefit both parties in the process. HMRC requires exporters to demonstrate compliance, even if the process is outsourced to agents or forwarders, failing to do so could incur time & financial costs.
This course focuses on what export documents are, what is required, and the benefits of best practices for exporting.
Learners will:
Sources of information on documentary requirements.
The importance of trade deals.
The documentation necessary for international consignments.
The required information to complete a document.
The role of origin and preference documents.
What is proof of export, and what documents to use.
This expert led course is part of the accredited BCC Foundation Award in International Trade. Each session will be followed by a short assessment to complete the training module, completing six modules earns the BCC Award in International Trade.
In the event you are no longer able to attend this training course, please note you must cancel or request a transfer of your place at least 7 working days before the course. The cancellation must be in writing and sent to [email protected] indicating the name of the course you are cancelling for and delegate(s) details.
If a booking is not cancelled and the delegate does not attend, full event costs will still apply.
Chamber Co.nnects are fortnightly network meetings for its members to network and chat with other businesses in a digital space.
We believe networking is key during difficult times to help with mental health, continuation of business and access to help and advice from peers. Each network meeting will have a guest speaker and will be focusing on a current topic.
Enjoy from the comfort of your own home with no early starts or commute and make sure to make a coffee and bring a smile to this online video meeting.
Who’s it for?
Business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, young businesses and anyone who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in the Norfolk area.
Topic – Flexible working
As we ease out of lockdown, many workers will be returning to the workplace after long periods of furlough or working from home. Whilst some are keen to get back to old routines, many have now adapted to their new ways of working and spending extra time at home. We will look at the types of flexible working requests employers may be presented with and how to manage these.
As well as providing internal HR support, she advises a wide range of clients on all aspects of the employment relationship through the Firms HR Consultancy Service. Claire graduated with a 2:1 in Business Management in 2010 and since, gone on to complete her Level 5 CIPD qualification in Human Resource Management.
About Lovewell Blake
As well as being the oldest accountancy firm retaining its original name, Lovewell Blake is also one of the most innovative in serving clients. With specialist teams covering the needs of particular professions and business sectors, we serve more than 10,000 businesses, private and charitable clients across a wide range of sectors throughout East Anglia and beyond.
Our teams comprise experienced and highly-qualified experts in all areas of accounting, auditing and tax planning who can be contacted at any one of our local offices across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Agenda
09:30 – Welcome from Chamber. Go through format and any updates (5-mins) 09:35 – 45-second introductions from each delegate (15-mins) 09:50 – Guest speakers (15-mins) 10:05 – Q&A for speaker (10-mins) 10:15 – Discussion topics and networking (45-mins) 11:00 – Close
Due to this event being for members only, it has been set-up for manual approval, so event details will be received shortly after registering rather than immediately.
We are delighted to invite you to join us for our next insightful and engaging Aylsham Agricultural breakfast. We will be hearing from two speakers who will share their expertise on crucial topics affecting our industry and economy.
First, we will welcome Anne Barker from Brown & Co. Anne will discuss the budget from a Valuer’s perspective; covering the practical implications of the changes to the inheritance tax regime including valuation issues and how the relevant reliefs are applied.
Following Anne, we will hear from Chris Solt, Agricultural Partner at Lovewell Blake. Chris will offer his perspective on the recent announcements from the Autumn Budget, providing valuable insights into how these changes may impact our sector.
Simple Guides to Making Tax Digital, Cloud Accounting, Data and APIs
“HMRC’s ambition is to become one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world, modernising the tax system to make it more effective, more efficient and easier for customers to comply.”
Taken from the www.gov.uk/ website as at 15.8.19 (link here)
Did you know that from April 2019 Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Business systems will become mandatory to meet your VAT obligations?
This means that any entity, whether a sole trader, partnership, company, charity or landlord that makes VAT-able supplies above the VAT threshold (currently £85,000 turnover), will be required to submit their VAT return using functional compatible software that is compliant with HMRC’s new MTD reporting system. The Government’s main objective of MTD is to plug the £3.5bn gap that is generated by mistakes made on VAT returns whilst also saving time for both HMRC & taxpayers.
So the digital revolution is coming and it will affect you and your business, even if not right now, in the near future. Already we control our own personal accounts and finances online. We nearly all use online banking, credit checkers and perform BACS payments. Nearly all of us agree it does make our life easier and makes information quicker and easier to obtain. So why should we be treating our businesses any different?
Who is it for?
If you fall above the VAT registration threshold or will have done by April 2019; want to get ahead of the game or feel you just want to know more and ask questions of those who can advise you, then this is definitely the event for you.
Our informative and engaging specialists will help debunk the myths surrounding MTD and demystify Cloud Accounting, showing you how it works, what benefits it will bring to you and your business and how simple it can be to use.
Alongside this they will help you understand the new applications available to assist businesses manage and control their finances. There is a world of options and opportunities out there and our digital specialist will help identify a few and highlight their strengths and weaknesses and show you how to assess their suitability for your needs.
With demonstrations of different processes and software alongside the facts, our team hopes to present you with a fair and honest presentation of MTD, Could Accounting, Data and Business APIs.
Take this chance to get a great overview of the online financial revolution which can benefit your business and ask questions of our experts during and after the event.
This British Chambers of Commerce nationally accredited course looks at the advantages of claiming inward and outward processing relief, how commodity codes help, and the documentation required.
Inward and outward processing are methods of claiming relief from customs duties and VAT when importing into the UK, allowing companies to be more competitive by reducing costs.
Who should attend?
This course is suitable for anyone involved in international trade, especially those involved in understanding cost savings, such as:
Finance and Accounts
Freight Forwarders
Procurement
Shipping
The following topics will be covered in this training course:
Understand the advantages of claiming IPR and OPR
Documentation required for IPR and OPR
Commodity and Procedure codes
Know how to work out customs duties
A short assessment will be provided at the end of the course.
In the event you are no longer able to attend this training course, please note you must cancel or request a transfer of your place at least 7 working days before the course. The cancellation must be in writing and sent to [email protected] indicating the name of the course you are cancelling for and delegate(s) details.
If a booking is not cancelled and the delegate does not attend, full event costs will still apply.
Simple Guides to Making Tax Digital, Cloud Accounting, Data and APIs
“HMRC’s ambition is to become one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world, modernising the tax system to make it more effective, more efficient and easier for customers to comply.”
Taken from the www.gov.uk/ website as at 15.8.19 (link here)
Did you know that from April 2019 Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Business systems will become mandatory to meet your VAT obligations?
This means that any entity, whether a sole trader, partnership, company, charity or landlord that makes VAT-able supplies above the VAT threshold (currently £85,000 turnover), will be required to submit their VAT return using functional compatible software that is compliant with HMRC’s new MTD reporting system. The Government’s main objective of MTD is to plug the £3.5bn gap that is generated by mistakes made on VAT returns whilst also saving time for both HMRC & taxpayers.
So the digital revolution is coming and it will affect you and your business, even if not right now, in the near future. Already we control our own personal accounts and finances online. We nearly all use online banking, credit checkers and perform BACS payments. Nearly all of us agree it does make our life easier and makes information quicker and easier to obtain. So why should we be treating our businesses any different?
Who is it for?
If you fall above the VAT registration threshold or will have done by April 2019; want to get ahead of the game or feel you just want to know more and ask questions of those who can advise you, then this is definitely the event for you.
Our informative and engaging specialists will help debunk the myths surrounding MTD and demystify Cloud Accounting, showing you how it works, what benefits it will bring to you and your business and how simple it can be to use.
Alongside this they will help you understand the new applications available to assist businesses manage and control their finances. There is a world of options and opportunities out there and our digital specialist will help identify a few and highlight their strengths and weaknesses and show you how to assess their suitability for your needs.
With demonstrations of different processes and software alongside the facts, our team hopes to present you with a fair and honest presentation of MTD, Could Accounting, Data and Business APIs.
Take this chance to get a great overview of the online financial revolution which can benefit your business and ask questions of our experts during and after the event.
This hands-on workshop is designed specifically for small business owners who want to harness the power of AI to streamline operations, improve customer service, and unlock new efficiencies. Whether you’re just starting out or ready to build your first automation, this session will guide you through practical applications of AI using real business data.
What You’ll Learn – From Concept to Practice
A quick recap of how large language models (LLMs) work, prompt logic, and the structure of Custom GPTs.
Live demonstration: building an advanced Custom GPT using uploaded documents and tailored instructions.
Understand how Custom GPTs simulate agent-like behaviour without added complexity.
Interactive GPT Building
Hands-on session: create or refine your own Custom GPT tailored to a real business task (e.g. customer support, HR, onboarding).
Receive live feedback and one-on-one troubleshooting to improve structure, tone, and retrieval logic.
AI Automations
Explore the automation platform Make.com and learn how to integrate AI into workflows using real data (emails, forms, documents).
Demo examples: trigger GPT actions from business emails or Google Sheets, extract and summarise documents, and log or email outputs.
Define automation use cases to develop further in Session 3.
Introducing Tools (MCP)
Learn about Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and how LLMs can now interact with external tools and services.
Demo: ask a natural language question → AI queries a live database or Google Sheet → structured output.
Begin mapping potential use cases for your business.
Outcome
By the end of this session, you’ll have built your first real-world GPT or automation flow and gained the skills to design AI processes that interact with your business data and documents in real time.
Who Should Attend
Small business owners
Entrepreneurs
Freelancers
Anyone curious about applying AI to real-world business tasks
What to Bring
A laptop
Sample documents or business scenarios you’d like to work on
Enthusiasm to explore and experiment!
Spaces are limited – reserve your spot today!
Meet the Trainer Giancarlo Erra is a seasoned tech-creative entrepreneur and business consultant with over 25 years of experience across multiple industries. As a professional touring musician, his unique background bridges the worlds of technology and creativity, giving him a distinctive edge in using innovative solutions to drive business growth and streamline operations. As a former developer and technical director, Giancarlo has led projects ranging from full?stack development and system administration to AI-driven applications, providing tailored consultancy to SMEs and startups. His extensive experience includes founding Promethean Box Ltd, an umbrella company including AI-driven startups like Tweetify It, a tool for generating personalised social media content, and Copyforge, which helps automate blog and article creation. As the founder of YourVault.AI, he is currently developing private AI solutions to help small and micro-businesses deploy AI models securely on their own data. A public speaker and mentor, he regularly organises AI Summits and hackathons, helping businesses and individuals easily adopt AI tools and focusing on practical applications that deliver real value
Registration at 9am, workshop starts at 9.15am. There will be a refreshments on arrival and mid-morning.
Eligibility: These small group in-person workshops are open to any trading business, freelancer, or charity based North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, West Norfolk & King’s Lynn districts in Norfolk, UK. Norwich, Breckland, South Norfolk & Broadland please contact your district council for business support.