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Join us for a lunchtime discussion, where you can ask us your IT questions. Drop in at anytime between 12 and 1pm .
You will need your lunch and a drink, and a good question.
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SUNA Masterclass – Upskilling Current Staff or Recruiting New Staff?
12:00 – Close out
COSHH Training – 14th July
This course is for employees and employers who require an awareness of the COSHH regulations, control measures and safety procedures.
Hazardous substances are found in most working environments and annually thousands of workers become ill after contact with them. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 provides a legal framework that requires employers to protect employees from hazardous substances at work and to ensure that employees liable to be exposed to a substance hazardous to health are suitably and sufficiently informed, instructed and trained.
Silver to Gold Growth Pathway Sign Up (Sept – Dec 2022)
Ensure you have all the knowledge to grow your business and learn and develop with the support of a trusted team of like-minded peers.
About this event
Register your interest to be first on the list and we will call you to discuss this pathway with you.
Who is it for?
It may be a cliché but it is lonely at the top and can be hard to find people who understand your role. This series of events can offer you your very own board of advisers who truly understand.
As part of the Silver to Gold Pathway programme, you will be seated with other like-minded CEOs, founders, owners and successful business leaders from a variety of industries who understand the challenges you face. Together and with the structured and interactive support of Tom Yeung, our experienced and successful business coach, you will cover all the key areas which can affect your businesses scaling and growth potential.
Tom will work with you and as part of the group discussions and learning, support you through your own and the groups’ journey to conquer challenges, find solutions and look for new opportunities and perspectives to enable you to plan and deliver the growth and scaling of your business both successfully and sustainably.
What is this pathway about?
This is a programme that will provide you with the critical information, knowledge and skills you will require to make the transition from an “Organically Growing” business to a “Structured Focussed” business ready to accelerate ahead.
It will build a strong foundation for your business, challenging you to look at all aspects such as: strategies, people, processes and create an environment that fosters growth. This is a part taught and part peer discussion programme.
How will attending this workshop benefit you?
In the workshop I will be covering these items:
- Setting your individual growth plan
- Self analysis
- Identifying and removing limiting factors
- Identifying and implementing the processes and structure required for growth
- Leadership and Management skills
- Role of the team
- Marketing techniques
- Sales tactics
How does this programme work? What is the format?
You will be asked to commit to delivery sessions for the length of the pathway programme:
- 6 x 3 hours lecture style delivery with interaction. Homework tasks are set as takeaways.
- 2 x in person events
- 6 x 30 mins 1-2-1 following each topic
What you will need to do?
You will need to be:
- Committed to attending the events regularly
- Open-minded to new ideas and creative thinking
- Open to the opinions of others.
- Able to listen to and share your own experiences and knowledge with the group.
- Compassionate and respectful of other members
- Passionate about developing yourself and your business for growth.
When are the sessions?
07.09.22 (In person event)
21.09.22 (09:30 -12:30)
05.10.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
19.10.22 (09:30 -12:30)
02.11.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
16.11.22 (09:30 -12:30)
30.11.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
14.12.22 (In person event)
How does Silver to Gold Growth Pathway work?
This programme combines group and traditional learning styles within a dedicated and supportive group environment of like-minded business leaders. Bringing together alternative but thought processes and perspectives with, new and old ideas, analytical discussion and reviews, culminating in helping you and the group support each other to creating plans for your growing future.
The success of the group is due to the commitment and support of its members, who are dedicated to improving their businesses, their leadership, their community and each other. The group requires commitment, confidentiality and a willingness to both give and receive advice and ideas. Members support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. It demands accountability, increases your focus and confidence resulting in improved performance for both yourself and your company.
What happens and who is suitable for the Silver to Gold Growth Pathway?
- A group of up to 15 business owners will attend this series of Silver to Gold Growth events.
- These business owners can be from any business sector but must have the desire to want to develop and grow their business.
- You will commit to the sessions as much as possible for the length of the pathways programme of events
- You will be part of lively, authentic discussions based on current business and development challenges.
- Members are the key to this programme, challenging each other to set clear goals.
- Members share success stories and challenges with each other openly and confidentially.
- Problems are solved through members brainstorming and collective creative thinking.
What does the facilitator do?
The facilitator will introduce ideas and insights on topics that matter to you, manage the expectations of the group and help you gain insights into your future development needs. They will help to channel and focus discuss and draw out the key information, strategies and shared learning from the group.
They will ensure your events achieve the growth and development you are all looking for. They will help you create and develop strategies that will enable you to reach the goals you desire.
Agenda for the session example based on 3 hour session
09:25 Room opens (Zoom)
09:30 Topics for the day as per the above series schedule – part 1
10:45 Break
10:50 Topics for the day as per the above series schedule – part 1
12:10 Q & A *
12:30 Close
This event is 3hrs and 5mins in duration and will provide 3hrs of Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage (IBD*). This is equivalent to £150 worth of State Aid. For the 2.5 hour session it is 2.5 hours of IDB delivery and equivalent to £125 worth of state Aid. We are able to deliver this is free of charge to you with thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
Norwich Living Wage Action Group
We’ll be broadcasting a series of interviews, which we’ll record at then event (you never know – you might be on air!) and our parent charity’s CEO, Daniel Childerhouse, will be telling you all about the Living Wage on the evening. It would be great to see you there!
Women Talk Business: How do you want your brand perceived? (Great Yarmouth)
Women Talk Business provides a positive and encouraging space for female business owners, start-ups and women in business to come together to learn, share ideas, seek advice and build supportive business relationships.
In this session, Caroline Vermeulen , will take you through how to define your brand.
Based on a set of human personality traits, you will explore core values and price point positioning in order to create a brand that is professional and accurate for the market you want to play in.
It’s all about strengthening where you’re at right now and planning brand growth and business growth simultaneously. Plus it’ll be fun!
The workshop will be approximately 1 hour, with 15 minutes allotted before and after the session for networking.
Refreshments will be available, and you’ll also be able to find out what the Business & IP Centre Norfolk can offer your start-up or existing business.
Caroline has worked for many years for in-house design departments for companies including Guide Dogs, Laithwaites, Denplan, Archant and worked with brands such as Natwest, Lego, Sunday Wine Club, Heritage Wills, Hill & Co., Rappaport, Dannunzio, London DE, and so much more.
Her experience has taught her the value of branding and the meaning behind why it’s so important when growing a business.
Healthier Food, Healthier Minds
Healthier Food, Healthier Minds: translating academic insights into enhanced products for better brain health.
“Healthier Food, Healthier Minds” aims to provide attendees with a better understanding of the connection between nutrition and brain health (mental health and cognition) and how this knowledge can inform product innovation, labelling and marketing.
The event brings together experts from various fields, including nutrition, psychology, neuroscience, and food labelling to share their research and insights on how diet can affect our brain health throughout life, highlighted the most effective foods and dietary components. The speakers will share examples of translation of research into product innovation, and the thinking and criteria behind packaging and making a nutrition or health claim.
Attendees can network with other professionals in the field and participate in interactive workshops and discussions to discuss the latest knowledge, consultancy, R&D and research opportunities.
Event talks
- The brain introduced: Prof. Anne Marie Minihane
- Gut Feeling: Targeting the gut for brain health: Dr David Vauzour
- We are what we eat: Nutrition and brain vitality into older age: Prof Anne Marie Minihane
- Can I make a health or nutrition claim: Prof Susan Fairweather-Tait
- Developing a healthy diet and lifestyle through adolescence and early adulthood: Dr Eleanor Winpenny
- The Brand Lens: Helping People to See Better Eating Choices Differently: Andrew Piper
Get to know NIHA
NIHA develops and implements effective strategies to promote sustained population behaviour change to improve physical and mental well-being.
A core interest in NIHA is establishing the impact of nutrition, physical activity, sleep and smoking status on health outcomes, and how to deliver effective behaviour change interventions
Behaviour change (including healthy eating, physical activity, non-smoking, moderate alcohol consumption, medication adherence, sleep and socialisation), promotes human flourishing and health and reduces the risk of premature disease by up to 70%
Our research contributes to the UK Healthy Ageing Grand Challenge to increase healthy life expectancy by 5 years by 2035, while narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest
NIHAs research falls primarily under three core Research Themes
- Theme 1: Behaviour Inequalities and Health
- Theme 2: Plant Foods and Health
- Theme 3: Cardiometabolic Health and Brain Ageing
These three Themes are focused on health and disease prevention, with a particular emphasis on brain, cardiometabolic, gut, and musculoskeletal health.
A summary of each Research Theme is described below with more details on NIHA’s website.
Get to know the speakers
Anne Marie Minihane, Professor of Nutrigenetics
Head of the Department of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Department, Norwich Medical School, UEA and Director of Norwich Institute of Healthy Ageing (NIHA)
Anne-Marie and team’s research programme investigates the impact of dietary components (marine omega-3- fatty acids and a Mediterranean-style dietary pattern) and APOE genotype on cognitive and overall brain health. Norwich Institute of Healthy Ageing (NIHA) is focused on providing agency, and the capability, opportunity and motivation to adopt healthier behaviours (eating, physical activity, socialisation, sleep etc.) aligned with recommendations, and also the translation of knowledge into food product innovation
In addition, at UEA, Anne Marie contributes to teaching Medical and Bioscience students, in the area of nutrition and disease prevention and therapeutics. She is an associate or deputy editor for several nutrition journals. When away from science she enjoys the outdoors, and in particular running, good food and wandering around supermarkets, social and historical fiction, and travel and its planning.
Dr David Vauzour, Associate Professor in Molecular Nutrition
Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK.
Dr Vauzour has a longstanding interest in the impact of food bioactive on (neuro)degenerative disorders and to develop novel strategies to delay brain ageing and cognitive decline. His recent interests concern how food bio-actives modulate the gut microbiome-brain axis in ageing and neurodegenerative disorders and their underlying molecular mechanisms.
To date, Dr Vauzour has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and currently serves as the Associate Editor for the journals “Nutrition and Healthy Aging”, Frontiers in Neuroscience – Gut-Brain axis and Frontiers in Nutrition – Nutrition and Brain Health. In addition, he is a member of the editorial board of “Nature Scientific Reports (Neuroscience)”, PharmaNutrition and “Peer J (Pharmacology)” and currently sits on the ILSI Europe Scientific Advisory Committee.
Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait
Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait is a Professor of Human Nutrition, at Norwich Medical School, the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Her main research interests are mineral metabolism and requirements, in particular iron, and she has over 300 peer-reviewed publications. She has served on several national and international advisory committees, including the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Nutrition. She is currently chair of the UK Nutrition and Health Claims Committee (2020-present) and the FAO/WHO expert group on nutrient requirements for children aged 0-36 months (2020-present).
She is a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition (SACN) (2021-present), the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (2020-present), EFSA’s Working Group on Upper Levels of Nutrients, and she represents SACN on the Board of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition in 2017 and appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Nutrition Society in 2021.
Dr Eleanor Winpenny
Senior Research Associate and MRC Career Development Award Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Dr Eleanor Winpenny conducts research to investigate diet and eating behaviours trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood. She is interested in the influence of changing determinants on a diet, as young people go through early adulthood life transitions, including leaving the parental home, finishing education, starting employment and starting a family. She aims to understand how the exposures that people experience during this developmental period contribute to inequalities in health behaviours and outcomes. Eleanor is the Principal Investigator of the ‘Diet and Eating Behaviours Across Early Adulthood Transitions’ study, which is collecting new data on adolescents as they transition out of secondary school.
Andrew Piper
Working in the UK and internationally during a career of more than 30 years, Andrew has designed visual identity and communication for many of the world’s leading brands.
At leading agencies Landor, Clear M&C Saatchi and his own consultancy Rare, he has led the creative development and implementation of effective and enduring solutions for Kellogg Company, Campari Group, Astra Zeneca and Unilever.
For membership organisations including Arrival Diversity & Inclusion and CIOB, his clarity of thinking and creative direction is enabling them to grow influence and impact with audiences and stakeholder groups.
“The role of a compelling communication solution to frame the core message, create aspiration and build trust cannot be under-estimated in the competition to influence better choices.”
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Larking Gowen Autumn Norfolk Business Breakfast
Come along to the Autumn Norfolk Business Breakfast with guest speaker Ben Coomber, for an insightful morning into discovering your human potential… as well as a tasty breakfast!
The Autumn Norfolk Business Breakfast will be host to an inspiring and insightful guest, Ben Coomber, who will present on how to discover our human potential, the tips and tools we can use to encourage our team to be more efficient, productive and motivated – using his experience as a high-performance coach, CEO and entrepreneur.
Ben inspired the room at Larking Gowen’s Spring Suffolk Business Breakfast in Ipswich back in March, discussing the difficulties that come with being a business leader, how to become the ‘Awesome Human’ and how we can motivate our teams to be better every day.
Traditional Christmas Party Night
Our perennially popular party nights featuring Delia’s Traditional Christmas.
With stunning views over the floodlit pitch, the evening includes a welcome glass of chilled prosecco on arrival, a three-course dinner followed by coffee with homemade chocolates and mince pies. Then dancing til the early hours to our resident DJ.
Club Tropicana Party Nights
The evening includes a two-course buffet and entertainment throughout the evening.
Lion & Castle Christmas Party
New for 2024, introducing The Lion & Castle Christmas Disco Night. Bring your friends and colleagues to dance the night away.
The evening includes one free drink and a disco, with food available to purchase on the evening. Glass of wine/pint of beer/soft drink.
Bad Manners: Christmas Special
Buster & Co are back this Christmas with Max Splodge and Special Guests TBA.
Bad Manners, composed of vocalist Buster Bloodvessel (born DouglasTrendle), Louis Cook (guitar), David Farren (bass), Martin Stewart (keyboards),Brian Tuitti (drums), Gus Herman (trumpet), Chris Kane (saxophone), and Andrew Marson (saxophone), were one of the many bands to take their inspiration from The Specials and the ska revival movement in England in the late 70s. They quickly became the novelty favorites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman’s silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through 2-Tone Records package tours and an appearance in the live documentary Dance Craze. In the early 80s, they managed several U.K. hits including ‘Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu’, ‘Lip Up Fatty’, ‘Special Brew’, and ‘Can Can’.