You’re invited to the first CTS Compliance Seminar!
From 4PM to 8PM on the 5th November, we will be at Knight’s Hill Hotel in Kings Lynn for an informative and engaging evening focused on compliance in the logistics industry.
Whether you’re a fleet operator, driver, compliance manager or business owner, this event is packed with valuable insights from leading industry professionals, including CTS Training & Consultancy, Norfolk Police Commercial Vehicle Unit and JMW Solicitors.
Tickets are free for CTS Companion Members, or £25 per attendee for non-members (reduced to £20 per attendee if purchasing more than one ticket).
Enjoy the chance to network with fellow professionals, ask questions directly to experts, and stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving industry.
Give It A Go – Padeltakes place on Thursday 30th October 2025, from 10:00am to 12:00pm at The Padel Point, Norfolk Premier Golf, Blofield.
Organised by Joe Randlesome, Marketing Manager at Contract Personnel, the event combines networking with the fast-growing sport of Padel – all while raising vital funds for local charity Break – supporting Joe’s upcoming participation in the 2026 London Marathon.
Attendees will enjoy exclusive access to the newly installed outdoor Padel courts, with all equipment provided. Whether taking part in the action with roll-on, roll-off matches or simply enjoying conversations from the sidelines, guests are guaranteed an engaging and social morning.
Event highlights include:
Exclusive use of two outdoor Padel courts at The Padel Point
Guided introduction to Padel from Grace and her team
Networking opportunities with local professionals
Optional play – no experience required
Refreshments available from Norfolk Premier Golf’s café and sports bar
“Padel is one of the fastest-growing sports in the UK- it’s fun, inclusive, and easy to pick up,” said Joe Randlesome.
This event is about trying something new, meeting people in a relaxed setting, and raising money for a great cause,”.
We have the amazing Arianne coming to play for us all at the brewery in our series of Live & Unplugged. Arianne is a professional musician based in Norwich, showcasing her own original songs and a few covers. Performing classics, 90s and 00s hits, and a few guilty pleasures thrown in for good measure.
The RNAA is proud to support Agri-Tech Week and is delighted to invite you to an exclusive speaker event with Dr Philip Zegerman from Tropic, who are based at the Norwich Research Park, where you’ll discover how their ground-breaking gene-editing technology is transforming agriculture and advancing global food security.
Tropic’s advanced tools, including their GEiGS® platform, are being used to improve tropical produce such as bananas and rice—making them tastier, more resilient, higher yielding, and better able to withstand the challenges of climate change. These innovations are now being applied to UK-grown crops and extended to livestock, with promising developments in disease resistance and animal welfare.
This speaker event will also provide insight into the new regulatory landscape—what it means for farmers, and how they can benefit from technologies that are a true game-changer for sustainable farming.
Dr Philip Zegerman
Associate Director Technology Development and Research
Dr Philip Zegerman joined Tropic in July 2023. He has long-standing experience of building and leading interdisciplinary science teams and delivering internationally competitive research objectives. Prior to joining Tropic, he worked at the University of Cambridge for 14+ years as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, studying DNA mutations in cancers. He has a PhD in Pathology from the University of Cambridge.
Study for your Transport Manager CPC with a CILT Approved Training Centre.
For those of you who are aspiring to become a qualified transport manager or looking to develop your Road Haulage transport management skills this is the course for you.
Course dates: 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 January and 2 3 4 9 February 2026
Exam date: 10 February 2026
Price excludes VAT
Location: CTS Training & Consultancy, Main Road, Terrington St John, Wisbech, PE14 7RP
Our two-day Transport Manager Refresher course will keep you up to sate and compliant with the latest information from the Traffic Commissioner and the DVSA.
This course is ideal for a transport manager’s CPD or for a transport planner to get an insight into becoming a Transport Manager.
You can also get up to 14 hours Driver CPC with this course
Price excluding VAT
Location: CTS Training & Consultancy, Main Road, Terrington St John, Wisbech, PE14 7RP
Ofqual approved 3-day First Aid at Work course. All successful students will be issued an FAW certificate lasting for 3 years. This FAW course covers all aspects of basic life support including CPR, bleeding, unconsciousness, choking, head injuries, sprains and strains and a vast range of First Aid conditions that you may experience in the workplace.
A free event for North Norfolk businesses to find out about how to make use of the levy, transferring the levy, a funding update for non-levy organisations, end point assessments and upskilling staff. Several local training providers will be attending to discuss training needs and apprenticeship recruitment.
In general, managers think that improving their employees’ wellbeing is a good idea. They understand that happier workers are more productive, creative and less likely to move on, taking their valuable skills elsewhere. Yet, many are daunted by setting up or maintaining a high-quality workplace wellbeing approach:
“We don’t have the money, space or time to set up a play area with a ping-pong table, fruit for every desk and have everyone doing yoga every day”.
High profile examples from famous companies have popularised a myth that treats and optional extras are necessary to improve worker wellbeing: what we might call ‘The Spangle Trap’. A spangle is a shiny ornament – nice to have, but only decoration on top of something else. This webinar helps you step back from the spangle trap and learn five principles for improving workplace wellbeing in ways that get to the heart of what workers value: good management, relationships, terms and conditions and appropriate support when things go wrong.
This webinar will cover:
Insight into the dangers of ‘the spangle trap’
What workers want and need
The 5-principles for implementing good workplace wellbeing initiatives, with explanation
Takeaway
An understanding of what makes a difference to worker wellbeing
The principles for implementing workplace wellbeing initiatives
Examples of how other businesses have done it
About the Speaker
Dr Helen Fitzhugh, Senior Research Associate and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at University of East Anglia.
Dr Helen Fitzhugh of Norwich Business School is passionate about organisations and research communication. She gathers the best academic evidence she can find on workplace wellbeing and productivity and then distils it down into practical information and resources for organisations as part of a project called the PrOPEL Hub. She draws upon work by researchers at the University of East Anglia who have been researching in this area for decades. Helen has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors, so bring with her an understanding of how to adapt complex research findings so that they make sense to real-life workers and managers in a variety of different settings.
About University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School is the largest school in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia, with over 1,000 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate students. With a team of more than 100 internationally recognised academics and business experts, we have a reputation for providing pioneering courses and high-quality research.
Within the school, there is a large cluster of researchers researching workplace wellbeing, including via leading the What Works Centre for Wellbeing’s recent work and learning programme. The wellbeing researchers are also involved in the PrOPEL Hub, a major new initiative designed to help boost productivity – and wellbeing – through supporting the growth of better workplaces in the UK. It involves partners from universities across the UK and the CIPD in providing practical lessons, ideas and toolkits for businesses to draw upon, all informed by the latest research and evidence.
Join us for an Afternoon of Sandwiches, Scones, Cakes and Patisseries made by our Pastry Team all accompanied by a selection of loose teas. Available from 12 noon until 4pm, for just £20 per person. Upgrade to our Champagne Afternoon Tea for only £28 per person.
Social media is meant to bring you customers… not take over
your life.
If you feel like you’re spending too much time posting (and
not enough time actually running your business), this session is for you.
Join award-winning Business Mentor, Kathy Ennis, to learn
how using AI tools (like ChatGPT) will make your social media marketing
quicker, smarter, and more effective. And don’t worry, you don’t need to know a
thing about AI to benefit.
You’ll discover how to:
Save hours each week by using AI to speed up content
planning and creation
Generate ideas, captions, and posts that attract the right
customers
Take the stress out of showing up online consistently
Free yourself from being a slave to social posting so you
can focus on running and growing your business
This isn’t about telling you which platforms to use or what
your content should be. It’s about giving you practical tools and tips that
will help you show up more easily and effectively, so you head into 2026 with
more time, less stress, and a business that works smarter, not harder.
Come ready to learn, laugh, and leave with strategies you
can put into practice straight away.
What You’ll Get
A simple, jargon-free explanation of AI (and why it’s not
scary)
Easy ways to use ChatGPT and other tools to speed up content
creation
Practical tips to create posts that reach and engage the
right customers
Time-saving strategies to free you up for the business you
actually want to run