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Norwich Business Breakfast – Media Opportunities, and making the Most of Them!

On the longest day of the year, 50 delegates decided to make the most of it by starting early at another Norwich Business Breakfast, at Norwich City Football Club presented by Norfolk Chamber. The Top of The Terrace suite was filled with the smell of a full English breakfast and the buzz of networking before Tim Williams, Managing Editor of Archant, Norfolk took to the floor to speak about how businesses can get the best from media opportunities to increase their profile.

Tim explained how to get the best results when approaching the media, what journalists want from you to get your story out there, some great do’s and dont’s and advice on what makes something newsworthy. Tim commented that he meets people all the time who have great stories to tell but they are not getting the message across to the media.

With the presentation over, Tim opened up the chance for the delegates to ask some questions. With some wanting to find specific ways to get to the right journalist, what challenges were the media, Archant in particular, facing with the rapid rate of digital mediums to what Tim thought of the whole Levenson enquiry. Tim rounded off by saying he would like to see a “vibrant free media, with news and information presented in a professional manner”.

“This breakfast has been brilliant, and I’ve met some really interesting people.” – Tim Williams

We also heard from our chosen event charity Macmillan Cancer Support. Nathalie Marshall, Fundraising Manager for Norfolk reminded us of the amount of people who are dealing with cancer in the UK every day, using the backdrop of the empty Canaries ground behind her to emphasise the fact that the number would fill the ground 4 times over. Finishing with a call to action from the delegates and their business, Nathalie asked them to get involved with the charity and reminding us all of the Macmillan coffee morning on September 27th.

As well as hearing from Tim and Nathalie, our 60 second speaker was Bob Prior from Heritage Contract Services. Bob took full advantage of the minute to tell those present more about what they do and what they can offer.

The event closed with delegates mixing and mingling with some safari networking, with opportunities to be ‘Well Connected’ with other local businesses.

The next Norwich Business Breakfast (with the Chambers AGM after) will take place on 11th October at Norwich City Football Club. To book your place click here

“Off to @norfolkchamber networking breakfast – always a great event/fab speakers/good breakfast and excellent networking!” – @thespacenorwich

“Early start today to be with the fine folks @norfolkchamber. @CPerryNCOC taking the stage as we speak!” – @Lambada_Alex

“Really interesting talk from Tim Williams Managing Editor of Archant Norfolk @norfolkchamber #ChamberNetworking” – @BiscuitJill

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Great Yarmouth Business Breakfast – Office to Offshore: Addressing the Skills Gap

It was a chilly but bright morning that saw delegates heading to The Imperial Hotel in Great Yarmouth for the first business breakfast of the autumn. As is the way, the delegates got down to networking over coffee and tea before sitting down to a tasty breakfast. Our featured speaker was Ian Moulton, Operations Improvement Manager for Perenco, who was there to discuss the importance of addressing the skills gap within the Oil and Gas industry.

Ian explained how Perenco are tackling the issue that affects the entire sector stating that it was started with an apprentice programme 2004, which has seen them take on at least 3 apprentices a year and a graduate programme started in 2011 that has had an increase in the amount of graduates in place year on year. As for the future, Perenco are looking to work locally with schools and colleges to get young people interested and involved in the industry earlier and supporting a ‘Military in Industry’ initiative. Despite this Ian pointed out that they still have to defer projects because they can’t find the right resources.

Ian finished his presentation with the question – How do we encourage the next generation to train for our industry and stay within the local area? – as a challenge to businesses to think what they could do.

The breakfast also saw a short presentation from Andrew Stevenson and Emma Pawsey from our featured charity – Broadland Meridian, and three 60 Second Speakers, two of which are new Chamber members, took the challenge to introduce themselves and what they do in a minute.

We heard from Bruce Hart from Paul Robinson Partnership (UK) LLP, Jason Brighton from Wellton Energy, and a two prong approach from Mark Lawrence and John Taylor from Pathfinder Performance.

With a bit of ‘Safari Networking’ to finish off the event, it was a great welcome back after the summer break.

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Our next breakfast event is Tales from Westminster: A Norwich Business Breakfast on Friday 11th October – for more information Click Here

Venue: Dunston Hall, Norwich

Employment Tribunals can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. This seminar, delivered by Cozens-Hardy, aims to take the you through the tribunal process from beginning to end and to inform you about new legislation and provide advice about how to avoid or survive the tribunal process. The aim is to de-mystify the process, to prepare delegates for what to expect and to provide practical tips on how to survive unscathed. The delegates will also have the opportunity to view and participate in a mock tribunal hearing and to put questions to experienced employment lawyers. Andrew Spencer One of the region’s most respected employment solicitors, Andrew has specialised in employment law since qualifying as a solicitor in 1995 with a particular emphasis on Employment Tribunal litigation. Originally from Malvern in Worcestershire, Andrew studied law at the University of East Anglia and attended Guildford Law School. He joined Cozens-Hardy in 1993 as a trainee solicitor and qualified into the firm’s Litigation Department. Andrew became a principal in 2002 and holds a postgraduate diploma in Employment Law from the UEA. Andrew has been a part time Deputy District Judge in the County Court and a part time Employment Judge in the Employment Tribunal since 2010. James McCulloch James is an assistant solicitor in the Dispute Resolution Team assisting both businesses and individuals on a range of disputes. James attends Court regularly on behalf of his clients both in a supporting role to Counsel and as an advocate. Originally from Essex, James attended Durham University where he studied law and completed his professional qualifications at BPP Law School in London. He trained with Cozens-Hardy and qualified as a solicitor in 2010. James also completed the post-graduate diploma in Employment Law at the University of East Anglia following his qualification as a solicitor.

Member Rate: £25 + VAT

Non-Member Rate: £50 + VAT A delegate list and agenda will be emailed to you 2 days prior to this event, please ensure you register early to feature on the published delegate list.

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Bookings for this event have now closed. If you would like to attend this event please call the Events Team 01603 625977 to be added on to the cancellation list.

This HR Forum will focus on the details of a careful and thorough investigation into grievances, harassment complaints, disciplinary and capability issues. It is the foundation on which defences in Tribunal proceedings will stand or fall and it is at the heart of ensuring fairness for all employees. Employers wishing to reduce risk, create and maintain a positive workplace culture and foster confidence in management need to have experienced and trained manager investigators available at short notice to conduct workplace investigations as the need arises.

Birketts will look at the ‘secrets’ of a good investigation and how this can reduce financial and reputation risks to the organisation whilst ensuring that the reports produced stand up to the scrutiny of potential legal proceedings.

Jeanette Wheeler, Partner, Head of Employment Norwich Jeanette joined Birketts in 2007. She is a partner and heads up our employment team in Norwich.

Since her arrival at Birketts, Jeanette has provided expert advice to many employers and senior executives particularly in the NHS, off-shore oil and gas, and the food sector. She specialises in large scale redundancy and restructuring exercises; the TUPE implications of outsourcings, acquisitions and disposals; dealing with the removal of directors and senior executives; post termination restrictions; settlement agreements; difficult staff grievances and the Tribunal claims that can ensue.

Prior to joining Birketts, Jeanette was a partner at an international law firm where she was client partner for household names such as Nestle and acted for some significant global businesses. She travelled extensively throughout the United States on speaking engagements and also advising foreign companies on their UK and European HR liabilities. She advised on large scale outsourcing deals and TUPE issues including advising Philips Electronics in its divesting of its semiconductors business NXP as well as changing the pension terms for hundreds of employees of another international food manufacturer.

Sponsored and delivered by Birketts.

Member Rate: £25 + VAT

Non-Member Rate: £50 + VAT Venue: Dunston Hall, Ipswich Rd, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8PQ A delegate list and agenda will be emailed to you 2 days prior to this event, please ensure you register early to feature on the published delegate list. This event is now fully booked. To be placed on a cancellation list, please email your details to [email protected].

Join the Norfolk Chamber for an afternoon of accessing specialist knowledge essential for any HR Professional or business owner.

The trend for out-sourcing of services and functions in both the public and private sector looks to continue unabated. The tendering of large contracts for services means that the HR professional needs to have a good understanding of TUPE and where the potential liabilities might arise which would cause problems for an organisation.

The experts at Birketts will take you through a typical out-sourcing and change of contractor case study looking at the HR and legal ramifications arising along the way. In particular they will touch upon some of the latest case law in this tricky area highlighting when careful judgement calls need to be made and what plans might need to be made well ahead of any re-tendering exercise.

Your speakers:

Mat Newnham, Partner Mat joined Birketts in 2005. Mat has experience in all areas of employment law including advising public and private sector clients on large scale employment issues such as dealing with mass redundancy situations, advising on significant changes to employees terms and conditions, and helping with TUPE transfers. He provides day-to-day employment advice to clients on contentious and non-contentious issues such as hiring and firing senior level executives, long term disability related absence issues and employee performance management.

Tom Sharpe,Senior Associate Tom joined Birketts in October 2010. Tom advises both public and private sector clients on all aspects of employment law. He undertakes the whole spectrum of contentious work, ranging from day to day advice on disciplinary and grievance issues to a wide array of Tribunal claims. In the non-contentious arena, Tom advises on redundancy exercises both small and large, TUPE in its various guises and the employment aspects of insolvency.

Sam Greenhalgh,Solicitor Sam qualified as a solicitor in 2010 and since then has specialised exclusively in employment law. Sam advises on contentious and non-contentious matters having particular expertise in complex large scale employment litigation and family friendly rights. Sam also has experience of advising on TUPE and collective consultation exercises.

Open to all businesses.

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Member Rate:£25 + VAT

Non-Member Rate:£50 + VAT Venue:Holiday InnNorwich, Ipswich Road, Norwich, NR4 6EP A delegate list and agenda will be emailed to you 2 days prior to this event, please ensure you register early to feature on the published delegate list.

Bookings for this event have now closed. For availability please email [email protected]. Thank you.

Join us for breakfaston the 9th October to attend anexclusive event taking place behind closed doors under Chatham House rules with guest speakers from theUK’s largest insurer, Aviva and a Lecturer in Financial Economics from theUEA.

Learn about economic growth, including innovation anddigitalisation,and how thisaffectsbusinesses in the region.Also hear from an expert onhow to manage and foresee risk within the global economy by usingRisk Parity portfolios, you will also hear about how amild devaluation ofChina’s currencyrecently sent shock waves around global markets.

Dr. Antony Jackson, CFA, is currently a Lecturer in Financial Economics at the University of East Anglia, with previous experince asa former investment banker and independent derivatives trader. He is highly skilled as a Chartered Financial Analystcharterholder, a holder ofthe Level 4 Investment Management Certificate,and a holder of the Professional Risk Managerdesignation.Antony has degrees from the University of Cambridge, Warwick Business School, and the University of Leicester. Hisresearch focuses onthe areas of Investment & Trading Strategies and Financial Risk Management.

Lindsey Rix, Aviva’s UK chief operating officer,joined Avivain September 2014. Previously she was a managing director at Santander, responsible for its private banking and wealth management business, and has also held various positions in Barclays corporate and commercial businesses. She is also on the board of New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.Aviva operates in 16 markets across the world and Norwich is the headquarters of its general insurance business with a focus on car, home and commercial business insurance.

With the opportunity to hear from these high profile speakers and the chance to network with a number of influential Norfolk companies and business leaders, this networking breakfast is not to be missed.

Shortly after the breakfast members have the opportunity to attend Norfolk Chamber’s Annual General Meeting at the Dunston Hall Hotel, the meeting will commence at 10am.

Sponsored by: Steeles Law

#ChamberNetworking @norfolkchamber

Friday 9 October 2015 Venue: Norwich Time: 7.30am-09.30am Price: £18.00 + VAT

Members only event. If you are a non-member and are interested in joining the Chamber or finding out more information please call 01603 625977 orlook here.

A delegate list and agenda will be emailed to you two days prior to this event, please ensure you register early to feature on the published delegate list.

This event is now fully booked, to be added to the waiting list please email details to [email protected]

Join Norfolk Chamber along with our two guest speakers for a morning of knowledge, networking and of course breakfast.Our first Norwich Business Breakfast of the year covers the ever important topic of being cyber safe, both on your business computer and online. Our hostRachele Kelsall,Head of Community Development at Hugh J Boswell will take you through the morning.

We will have Stuart Sullivan, Managing Director of SGS Legalspeaking on the disruption companies of all sizes face to their operations from cyber attacks. He will also be covering the cost of such an attack and how much further it goes than financial loss, causing damage to reputation and trust. Using case studies the talk will highlight the risks and provide practical suggestions to protect your business.

Our second guest speaker, Lynsey Sweales, CEO of SocialB Ltdwill be talking about the importance of online social media safety for your business.While, social media can be a hugely powerful tool, businesses often tend to either naively be ‘gung ho’ about these channels or through the negative press, sometimesavoid using the channels all together and put their company in to social media lock down.Lynsey will share with you useful insight and tips on how to keep your business limited from the chances of a social media safety disaster.

#ChamberNetworking @norfolkchamber

Featured Event Charity:The History of Advertising Trust

Exhibiting at this breakfast will be:Norfolk County CouncilFreeClix Ltd

Key DetailsDate:Thursday 25 February 2016Venue:The Lancaster Suite,Holiday Inn North, Cromer Road, Norwich,NR6 6JATime: 07.30am- 09.30amMember Rate: £18.00 + VATNon-Member Rate:This is amembers only event, if you are a non-member and are interested in joining the Chamber find details here.

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Bookings for this event are now closed. For availability, please email [email protected]. Thank you.

On Thursday 27 February over 70 Norfolk Chamber Members attended our sold-out business breakfast to learn about HP’s innovative ambition for Norfolk.

As our venue sponsor, Norwich Cathedral provided the stunning location for the breakfast, in the beautiful Weston Room. Our host for the morning was Norfolk Chamber President, Ian Hacon CEO of Blue Sky Leisure. After hearing from our sponsor, Ian started the breakfast with a Norfolk Chamber hallmark ice breaker activity, designed to get everyone talking, introducing themselves and exchanging business cards. The room was packed, buzzing with conversation, as delegates took part in ‘One Truth, One Lie’ whereby they had to say two facts about their business, one of which was false and the other true and delegates had to guess which ones was which.

Over breakfast the networking continued, and was followed by delegates taking part in a Safari move that enabled them to meet with a whole new table of contacts. We heard from Russell Ede, Employment Coach at our event featured charity, the Shaw Trust who took a few minutes to talk about to work they are doing locally.

It was then time to hear from our two keynote speakers, Patrick Stephenson, Account Executive at Hewlett Packard and Tom Baker, Chief Information Officer at Norfolk County Council about the Digital Ambition Project.

Patrick explained how HP want to work with innovative local suppliers and small businesses to collaborate with Norfolk County Council on the digital ambition project. The project aims to create a new digital infrastructure for Norfolk with aims of becoming a ‘connected city’. HP intend to help businesses maximise social and economic benefit to the county by working with as many innovative SME’s as possible.

A Q&A session took place with various questions form delegates relating to aspects of the project, including a request to get companies together to innovate and bounce ideas of each other which HP are currently achieving through HP ‘Hot Houses’.

Delegates had a lot of positive things to talk about on twitter;

Ermine Sandler of Sandler Training tweeted “@Nrw_Cathedral beautiful breakfast in Weston room #chambernetworking @norfolkchamber #DigitalNorfolk”

Eastworkstweeted “Off to Launching Digital Norfolk @norfolkchamber this morning. Businesses looking to progress future for the region. #chambernetworking”

Norwich Cathedral ‏tweeted “Fantastic @norfolkchamber Business Breakfast at the Cathedral this morning.”

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Book now for a free, informal evening of networking at Bank House Hotel with a range of businesses from across West and North Norfolk. West Norfolk Nites continues to show popularity with leading businesses from across the region. Raise the profile of your business, create new contacts and enjoy some relaxed, friendly networking.  An evening of drinks, canapes and networking, free of charge and open to all businesses. This event is for businesses located in West Norfolk and North Norfolk. If your business is located out of these areas, please contact the events team before booking.

Early morning networking means hot coffee, pastries and an exciting way to start the day. Norfolk Chambers of Commerce, Swarm Apprenticeships and Solace Coaching are working together to deliver King’s Lynn’s friendliest, most rewarding and enjoyable networking.

Set your alarm and bring your business cards, we welcome all business types and sizes!

What’s the format?

Arrive at the King’s Lynn Town Hall for around 07:30 and network with some coffee for 20-25 minutes, we will then listen to fifteen-minute talk and have some Q+A’s. We welcome everyone to stay for more coffee and conversations to develope new contacts.

Who’s it for?

Business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, young businesses and anyone who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Newbies are always welcome, whether it’s to our group or to networking in general.

Who’s behind it?

Harry Harris from Swarm Apprenticeships, Paul Ward from Solace Coaching  and Nicole Risby from Norfolk Chambers of Commerce work collaboratively to bring this event to King’s Lynn.

Can I find out more?

If you’d like to talk at one of our events, please get in touch with Nicole Risby we are always looking for new speakers.

The Speaker:

Our guest speaker this month is Stokely Howard from Trendy Grandad.

He will be speaking on ‘The Trendy Grandad startup story: The power of video’

Stokely’s Bio:

Trendy Grandad are a video & social agency based in Norwich. Stokely, the Creative Director & Co-Owner has had a varied career leading to the journey he is on today. You’ll be leaving the talk with free knowledge on how to change your video game to have an edge over your competition. 

Instagram: @trendygrandadcreativeagency 

Stokely contact: 07856794414