Step Back in Time
– VE Day 80th Celebration at Saxon Air
Saxon Air is excited
to invite you to a weekend of live music, local history, and community
spirit—right inside our aircraft hangar—as we mark 80 years since VE Day. It’s
a great way to enjoy the May half-term with something for everyone.
Saturday 31st May
– VE Day Celebration Evening
Join us for a 1940s-inspired
evening with:
A
live 17-piece big band and swing dancing
A
specially curated Ritz-style dinner
A
special appearance by an iconic Spitfire
Vintage
flair and storytelling throughout the night
Tables of 10 are
available to purchase, or individual seats can be booked at £100 each for
general admission. (Please note: VIP tables are now sold out.)
Saturday tickets also include free entry to the Sunday
event.
Step Back in Time
– VE Day 80th Celebration at Saxon Air
Saxon Air is excited
to invite you to a weekend of live music, local history, and community
spirit—right inside our aircraft hangar—as we mark 80 years since VE Day. It’s
a great way to enjoy the May half-term with something for everyone.
Sunday 1st June –
Family Funday A relaxed, family-friendly
day packed with:
BBQ
and drinks
Electric
flight experiences
A
Spitfire viewing area
Heritage
displays and local history exhibits
Free
entry for children under 10
AndyA8
DJ
Tickets: £12, with proceeds going to the City of
Norwich Aviation Museum
Two-Day Passenger Transport Management CPC Refresher Course
Delivered by CJC Transport Consultants
Course Overview:
CJC Transport Consultants proudly offers a focused two-day Passenger Transport Management CPC Refresher Course designed to support current and aspiring Transport Managers in maintaining their professional competence. Delivered face-to-face by experienced industry professionals, this course ensures attendees are fully up to date with the latest regulatory, compliance, and operational developments in the PSV sector.
Who Should Attend:
Current Passenger Transport (PSV) CPC holders
Designated Transport Managers named on an Operator’s Licence
Operators seeking to enhance compliance and avoid enforcement action
Individuals preparing for a DVSA audit or Public Inquiry
Course Content Includes:
Operator licensing: roles, responsibilities, and obligations
Up-to-date passenger transport legislation and DVSA guidance
Driver’s hours, tachograph compliance, and working time regulations
Maintenance systems, record-keeping, and safety inspections
Managing compliance systems and preparing for audits
Transport Manager “good repute” and Traffic Commissioner expectations
Public Inquiry case studies and real-world scenarios
Best practices for efficient and lawful PSV operations
Course Benefits:
Refresh your knowledge and demonstrate continuous professional development
Gain insights into recent legislative changes and DVSA focus areas
Strengthen your ability to manage a safe, efficient, and compliant operation
Receive a certificate of attendance, recognised by Traffic Commissioners
Engage with expert tutors and network with industry peers
Duration: 2 Days – In Person
(Typically 09:00 – 16:30 each day)
Lunch and refreshments will be provided on this course.
Location: Great Yarmouth
Certification:
Delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion, suitable for presentation to the Traffic Commissioner as evidence of up-to-date knowledge.
This year’s Innes Lecture is being delivered by Prof Sujit
Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge, who
will look at the history of pepper and the role it plays in the world.
It will be held on Tuesday 29 April in the John Innes
Conference Centre at Norwich Research Park. The event is free to attend and
open to all. Please book your tickets here.
Doors open at 6pm with the lecture starting at 6.30pm.
Pepper is the most widely used spice in the world, but its
widespread use was not always certain or predictable.
This lecture follows pepper’s journey from its origins in
South India, across the Indian Ocean, and through many different hands, before
the Portuguese sought to take control of it.
The way pepper was harvested and traded to meet growing
demand helped shape the plantation economy. The combination of the plantation
economy and European colonisation played a huge role in shaping the modern
world. Looking at how pepper was cultivated and traded, reveals different
ecologies, trade networks, labour systems and cultural influences.
Prof Sivasundaram’s last book, Waves Across the South: A New
History of Revolution and Empire, won both the British Academy Book Prize and
the Jerry Bentley Prize for World History. He is a Fellow of the British
Academy.
Chamber Members: Is Your Wellbeing Strategy Working as Hard as Your Team?
As a fellow supporter of local business, I’m offering exclusive wellbeing reviews for Chamber of Commerce members — designed to help you get more from your current health and wellbeing provision.
We’ll look at what’s in place, spot gaps, and explore tailored solutions that can:
Improve productivity
Reduce absence
Boost staff retention
And show clear ROI
It’s a no-obligation consultation that’s all about helping you create a healthier, more engaged workforce — because strong teams build strong local businesses.
Let’s book a time to talk. One conversation could change the way your business supports its people.
This four week course covers Agile from start to finish, equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to take your team’s productivity to the next level. Using theory, case studies, activities and tools to take away you’ll become the ultimate project manager!
A dictionary will tell you that negotiation is a strategic discussion between two or more parties that resolves an issue in a way that each party finds acceptable. This programme will equip you with the skills to maximise your chances of a successful outcome.
Key topics:
The negotiation process
Why should someone buy from you
Negotiation skills
Value engineering
Negotiation in practice
Dates for this course will appear here once confirmed.
Kickstart your personal and business development by joining the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Help to Grow: Management course with Norwich Business School. Led by UEA academics, the course equips your business with tools and strategies to bolster your resilience.
Help to Grow: Management is a nationwide course, and as a member of the Small Business Charter, Norwich Business School is currently open for applications for its fourth cohort starting on 6th March 2024.
The course is designed for business owners, CEOs and tomorrow’s senior business leaders, who each bring a diversity of experience. 50+ regional businesses from a wide range of sectors including science and technology, electronics and aviation, social enterprise, retail and logistics have participated to date. Over 1,700 teaching hours have been delivered since November ‘22, as well as 500 hours of mentoring and 400 hours of peer-to-peer advice.
Participants will enhance their management and strategic capabilities, learn how to innovate in their business and adopt digital technologies to boost productivity and operational agility.
The course supports managers and leaders of SMEs with 5-249 employees. Those with 10+ employees may apply for two places. The 12-week programme is designed to fit alongside full-time work commitments and is 90% funded by the Government, meaning the fee payable by participants is just £750.
Would you like to develop your skills in this role and gain
a qualification?
Norfolk Adult Learning offer a Level 5 Management and
Leadership Skills course, with the next programme starting in March 2025.
Achieving a Level 5
Diploma in Management offers numerous benefits for both the learner and employer,
significantly enhancing the overall performance and productivity of the organisation
This session is fully booked please email [email protected] to be put on the waiting list.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the session starts at 08.30am.
In this session (Serving Your Customers Through Social Media ) Sarah West, The Social Edge will be your host.
You will learn:
No matter your size or industry, customers increasingly want to contact businesses via social media. A recent study found that 53% of customers who ask a company a question on social media expect a response within 1 hour – day or night!
This session will show you how to turn customer enquiries and contact into opportunities to impress. You will discover how to respond to messages and comments to enhance your social media followering and build a relationship with customers that leads to sales.
3 top tips you’ll walk away with:
How to encourage potential customers to make contact through social media
How to respond to enquiries and turn them into opportunities
How to delivery great customer service online and resolve complaints
About Sarah:
Sarah is Managing Director of The Social Edge and Full Mix Marketing. An award winning chartered marketer, Sarah has 15 years experience as a specialist in digital & social media marketing, including establishing an award nominated social media team for a leading national brand. She knows how to deliver highly effective campaigns and turn social media into a new source of customers. The Social Edge helps Norfolk & Suffolk businesses grow through social media marketing; including highly targeted advertising, creating a strong following, establishing your business as expert in its field and serving customers via social media.
This session is fully booked please email [email protected] to be put on the waiting list.
You will learn:
This session will highlight a particular way the brain operates when we meet a prospect for the first time. Tapping into this knowledge allows us to take advantage of the way the brain naturally functions, leading to more opportunities and creating long-term, highly effective sales habits. Guaranteed fun, with a relaxed and informal delivery style, this session is for those who have no sales experience at all or seasoned sales professionals.
3 top tips you’ll walk away with:
Learn how to get your prospect to ask you for a meeting rather than the other way around
Understand the link between how you think and how you sell
Discover why selling sequence will increase your sales success
In this session (How to Improve your Selling Game) Matt Sykes, Mindspan Global Ltdwill be your host.
About Matt:
Drawing from over twenty years of sales experience, ranging from global corporate B2B collabroative selling roles to start-up lead generation applications, Matt runs a Mindspan Training Franchise, specialising in sales training. His passion for performance psychology and his understanding of how people make purchasing decisions, create the ideal combination for him to help progressive sales professionals achieve even more sales success for themselves via training workshops and 121 mentoring.