Larking Gowen invites you to its Budget Review & Tax Planning EventThursday 17 March 2016 7.30am for 8.00am start, including buffet breakfast The Norfolk Lounge, NCFC, Carrow Road, Norwich NR1 1JE
You are cordially invited to join us for Larking Gowen’s review of the Chancellor’s spring Budget. Benefit from the unique opportunity to hear our tax specialists share their understanding of the key Budget changes and how this could impact on you. This event is free to attend.
Please register your attendance by clicking on the book now link below.
Our Tax Planning seminars are being held in both Norwich and Ipswich.For details ofour Ipswich lunchtime event on Thursday 17 March, please click here
For further details please contact Karen Kavanagh on 01603 624181 or [email protected]
As 2016 is a leap year, OPEN Norwich and LEAP invite you to spend an hour of your extra day doing something different so comeand’Take a Leap’and join in this FREE informal networking opportunity…
Why should you attend?
Take the opportunity to network with other local businesses whilst enjoying the surroundings of the Bridge, the exclusive VIP area of OPEN’s Banking Hall
Support two dynamic local causes who together champion young people in Norfolk
Friendly and knowledgeable staff will give guided tours of Norwich’s premier multi-purpose youth, music, events and conference venue OPEN, including the beautifully renovated Banking Hall and vaults
Talk to OPEN staff about the work ofOpen Youth Trust
Discover the work ofLeapwhilst enjoying cakes from their trading armThe Feed, baked and served by participants of the Flourish Employment Academy, a training programme for young people
Come on your own or bring friends and colleagues
Where & When
Monday 29th February 11.00am – 12.30.pm 20 Bank Plain, Norwich, NR2 4SF
Venue Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and Industry 9 Norwich Business Park Whiting Road Norwich Norfolk NR4 6DJ
This course will explain import documentation and procedures, including where to go for sources of international information and assistance and how to comply with customs procedures.
All businesses are required to keep financial records under the rules of Self-Assessment. The easiest method is by a simple cash book system showing income and expenditure. This can be done manually or by computerised systems.
You need to understand where income is coming from and where expenses are going. A business is about producing profit and generating cash. How do you know when this happening or not? If there is no control mechanism the chances are, you will not know until it is too late.
The workshop will explain how to structure and use financial records, develop a monitoring system and be aware of actions that should be taken.
The session will also give you a gentle introduction to tax (including vat and national insurance), and alert you to some issues that you will need to know for your new business.
Discover what you need to know before starting a business.
If you’re about to start a new business, you’ll find this full day seminar invaluable. It will give you the tools you need to take your idea from the drawing board to the real world.
You’ll get expert advice, help and encouragement in areas such as:
Writing a good business plan Sourcing finance Managing cashflow Meeting your legal obligations Taxation and VAT Marketing
You’ll also get the chance to network with others planning to start a business.
Teas & coffees will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Your accounts are a valuable tool that not only tell you how well your business has performed but also why it performed as it did and, most importantly, what you can do to improve performance. This will not only enable you to increase profits but will also assist in your relationship with your Accountant and Bank.
However, understanding accounts is not a skill that comes naturally to everyone. It does need to be acquired.Thereforethis workshop has been designed to plug that all important gap and send you back to the office fully armed with the skills and tools you need to make better financial decisions and drive your business forwards.
Our MBA willchallenge and change the way you think, teaching you to examine and solve problems in a more strategic and thoughtful manner. Starting annually in January, our AMBA accredited MBA will act as a catalyst in accelerating change in your career progression.
Norwich Business School will be holding anopen evening on Tuesday 21stJune 2016, between 18.00 and 20.00.
Come and see what we have to offer on both our Full Time and Part Time Executive MBA Courses.
Our MBA course leaders will be available to meet you and answer any queries you may have. They will also be ableto advise you on which programme you will be most suited to and talkyouthrough the content and structure of the course.
3 hour high impact sales tips for instant implementation and fast results.
Has your sales system gone off the boil, and you’re wondering what to do?
If your markets have changed then you need to adapt. These days your customers can be savvier than you are. What should you do when everyone is looking for a deal?
This workshop is lively and interactive – if you have sales challenges feel free to bring them with you.
Key Learning points
Simple methods to sharpen up your prospecting How to improve lead conversion (including www selling) How to sell to different personality types to build instant rapport – enlightening! Buying trigger patterns Preparing and presenting winning proposals Repeat business and customer retention methods The sales closing techniques of allsuccessfulsales people
Increase your ROI Come and learn how to ‘speak your customer’s language’ for guaranteed success. Don’t waste time doing what’s not working, come and learn what does!
hope you’re all recovering from NorDevCon and that you enjoyed the conference. Despite a packed conference, it’s Norfolk Developers as usual in March with our regular evening event on the 16th, a hands on JavaScript full day workshop also on the 16th and the fourth NorDev breakfast on the 23rd. Details below.
JavaScript Starter Kit – Beginners Full Day Workshop
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 9:00am to 4:45pm
Where: The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
Prerequisites: Laptop with wifi, modern browser, text editor
This day-long workshop aims to cover enough ground to give you a broad base from which to start your quest. We’ll use plenty of practical exercises to explore the language. We’ll cover some of the tricky parts which often mystify people – especially handling asynchronous code, which is one of the language’s great strengths. We’ll spend most of our time in the browser, but we’ll also play around with node.js, JavaScript’s foremost server-side environment. There’ll be time to survey some of the different tools and frameworks which are popular with JavaScripters at the moment. As well as all this we’ll explore JavaScript’s history, its culture and community, and the factors behind its explosive growth. Perhaps most importantly we’ll introduce a set of resources which’ll help you continue your learning independently.
How email works… and why you should care – A brief history of some of the aged protocols that underpin the internet and email in particular, a look at the security implications of the way email works, and some steps you can take to improve your safety.
Which cloud is best for the enterprise? – As public cloud adoption continues to gather pace, MigSolv Norwich has a Cloud platform to rival both Amazon and Microsoft Azure. In the session we’ll cover the different available cloud environments, how to set up your portal, manage your servers and billing system and look at the help and support options.
Aspirations of the current and future generations of school students in rural areas is at an alarming low. Norfolk is no exception to this phenomena. The presentations objective is to outline these challenges and how we all, jointly, can strategically change the East of England region’s Employment, Skills, Education and Aspirations landscape by creating a world renowned Centre for Knowledge Engineering i.e. AI and Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Bio-Informatics and Cyber Security. The East of England has now 3 world leading regional research hubs creating major breakthroughs in search engine technologies, Bio Med and food research but still not seen as a ‘powerhouse’. The objective is for the East of England to become the UK’s powerhouse of the Knowledge Engineering sector.
A breakfast seminar for HR professionals and business owners covering essential recent and forthcoming developments in employment law, to be heldat The Targetfollow Room, Theatre Royal, Theatre Street, Norwich NR2 1RL
Registration and coffee will be at 7.45am; a selection of bacon, sausage and vegetarian sausage baps will be served promptly at 8.00am. The briefing will start at 8.30am and will finish no later than 10.00am.
Cost: £30 + VAT per person (second place available for £15 + VAT).
Please RSVP to Georgina Harris, Marketing Apprentice by Monday 7 March (01603 598000 or [email protected]), advising of any dietary or other special requirements at time of booking.
The BUILD Charity provided around 250 social, leisure or learning opportunities to people in Norfolk with disabilities last year through around 3,500 individual engagements. We want to do that again this year, and make more people with disabilities feel safe, valued and part of their their communities. We need the Norfolk business community to help us, by putting their best foot forward by encouraging, and supporting their employees, and families to join our Whitlingham Walkathon on Saturday 21st May, where in return for a £5 donation, and as much sponsorship as you can gain, we will host a walk around as many of the 2.25 mile laps of the Whitlingham Broad as you can manage, and give you a completion certificate, and our thanks that your support will have made a difference.
Our picture shows Rose, Rodney and Heather taking part in this event in 2014. Rose has learning disabilities, but has been sucessful, with our support, to gain a job in retail working in Norwich and is a Trustee of this charity. Heather attends our Wednesday Club where she meets friends, and enjoys a cup of tea, gets involved in craft activities and our games nights. Rodney, sadly passed away last year, but despite using a walking frame, turned out to do his bit for the organisation that gave him a real chance.
You can enter individually, or as a team taking on a relay challenge, starting and finishing any time between 10.30am and 4.30pm. You can walk, run or cycle, and bring your dogs on a lead too. To find out more contact James Kearns at [email protected]