Do you need a hi-vis coat or pink scrim within your business?
At Rhino Building & DIY Supplies, we have a special offer on for our hi-vis orange bomber coats, orange motorway coats and plasterers pink scrim for the month of February.
Please get in touch if you are interested on 01493 751762 and ask for Zoe or Jon.
Costa Coffee, the Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop*, is getting ready to relocate at Chantry Place. The much-loved coffee company is about to upsize and open a brand new and larger store on the upper ground floor of the Centre, which will feature an uplifting and modern new store design for shoppers to enjoy.
Due to open on Wednesday 16th November 2022, Costa Coffee’s investment in the new store will create five new jobs in addition to the eight team members moving over from the current store. The new store will provide a bright, warm, and contemporary environment where customers can enjoy their favourite handcrafted drinks in the comfort of modern furniture. There’s even a new ‘Rinse & Refill’ station so visitors can top up water bottles and clean out reusable cups for free.
Not only that, but the investment brings with it a range of innovative new digital features that provide a seamless customer experience. Digital menu boards will soon make browsing the menu easier than ever, and the Click & Collect service on the Costa Club app will give customers the chance to order in advance and collect on-the-go.
The Costa Club app also provides access to Costa Coffee’s loyalty programme, which rewards members with a free handcrafted drink after eight purchases. The scheme even encourages customers to choose to reuse by offering an extra ‘green bean’ with every purchase of a handcrafted drink in a reusable cup. With only four purchases needed for a free drink, it is both a nice boost for customers and helps to reduce the number of takeaway cups used.
Commenting on the opening, Costa Coffee Area Manager for Norfolk, Corne Veldtman, said: “We can’t wait to unveil our new Costa Coffee store in such a prime location at Chantry Place. We’ve put our customers and community right at the heart of our uplifting new store experience and our team members are excited to continue serving them their favourite, perfectly crafted, Costa coffee in our new space.”
Paul McCarthy, general manager at Chantry Place, comments: “We would like to thank Costa Coffee for their continued support and investment in the Centre. While work is done on your new Costa Coffee, its current store opposite Apple remains open, so that our customers can enjoy its barista-crafted coffees, sweet treats and sandwiches. Of course, it also opens in perfect time to serve its famous Christmas menu. It remains an exciting time for the Centre with Lisa Angel also undergoing a refurbishment and expansion. This year we have also welcomed Rituals, Whistles, Hobbs and Phase Eight and a Hotel Chocolat café to the Centre with more announcements coming soon.”
The new Costa Coffee store will be located on the upper ground floor next to Hobbs, Whistles and Phase Eight, and also Rituals.
For more information on Chantry Place, please visit www.ChantryPlace.co.uk or follow chantryplacenorwich on social media. For more information on Lisa Angel, visit www.lisaangel.co.uk or follow @lisaangeluk on social media.
Image provided by Chantry Place
The Feed has Christmas hampers on sale now!
They make a great gift for clients, staff or friends and family.
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Order here: https://www.thefeedhampers.org.uk/
Firm also 12th in the top 25 East of England Best Companies to Work For list
Leading law firm Howes Percival has been ranked in the nationwide ‘Best Companies to Work For’ list for the third year running, and 12th in the top 25 East of England Best Companies list.
The list celebrates excellence in workplace engagement and is widely acknowledged as the most searching and extensive research into employee engagement carried out in the UK.
The results are based on employee opinions on how the company supports wellbeing in the workplace, gives something back to society, shows strong leadership and teamwork, provides opportunities for personal growth and offers fair pay and benefits. Only the organisations with the highest level of overall employee engagement qualify for the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ list.
This year’s list confirmed Howes Percival in 59th position in the UK’s 100 Best Large Companies to Work For category and 12th in the top 25 East of England Best Companies to Work For list.
The firm achieved a 2 star Best Companies accreditation, which is given to organisations with an ‘outstanding’ commitment to workplace engagement. In addition, Howes Percival ranked 8th in the Top 10 Best Large Law Firms to Work For 2022 list.
Howes Percival provides a full service legal offering to corporate and private clients. Clients include Government departments, international brands and household names. The firm also maintains a strong core client base of SMEs and family-owned businesses, plus high net worth individuals.
Howes Percival’s Chairperson, Geraint Davies, commented, “We are absolutely delighted to be recognised as one of the UK’s Best Companies to Work For, again. To be listed three years running demonstrates the kind of consistency and progression we, as a management team, have been aiming for. We have been on a journey, and it has taken long term commitment and investment from the firm, but we have firmly positioned Howes Percival as a progressive, people-first employer of choice.
“The listing is based on employee opinions, so to get this reinforcement from our own people makes it very special indeed. The pandemic forced everyone to think differently about how we work, and support staff and we’ve used that to reinvent a lot of what we do. We have created far more ways of listening and communicating with our staff and a whole raft of new initiatives to support career development, management training and personal wellbeing. It means supporting staff by running everything from a ‘mini MBA’ programme to making sure that every employee’s home working set-up is healthy for them and safe, as well as ensuring the technology enables them to work effectively.
“We’ve listened to and worked with staff to evolve our flexible working guidance to strike the right balance for everyone in terms of home and office. Our “locate for your diary” approach was developed around staff feedback and striking the right balance between working from the office and working from home. Being more flexible and allowing our people to work how they see fit, while supporting their teams and clients, has improved engagement, effectiveness and demonstrates trust in our people.”
Geraint concluded, “As well as improving the engagement of our existing team, the work we’ve done is so important in terms of recruitment. We want to keep and nurture the people we already have, but we also want to grow the firm by attracting the very best people. When the employment market is as competitive as it is now, this accreditation can make a huge difference. Applicants know that all our roles have been comprehensively benchmarked in terms of salary and benefits and that we will provide a safe and supportive environment where their career can flourish.”
For more information about working at Howes Percival visit: https://www.howespercival.com/careers/careers-main/working-at-howes-percival/
Image provided by Howes Percival
Walking Home For Christmas is Walking With The Wounded’s annual, nationwide walking challenge to support our work helping wounded Veterans re-ignite their sense of purpose and get back on their feet with positive physical and mental health.
Walk any distance, any time between 9-20 December. This Christmas – MAKE IT HAPPEN for them.
Sign up for free here
Walking With The Wounded ‘WWTW’ deliver employment, mental health, care coordination and volunteering programmes in collaboration with the NHS to get those who served, and their families, whether mentally, socially or physically wounded, back on their feet and making a positive contribution once more. Why? Because those who served, deserve.
Norfolk Community Foundation, together with The Prince’s Trust, is excited to announce the launch of an innovative new mentoring programme to support and inspire vulnerable young women in Norfolk, helping them to take the next step towards reaching their goals. This one-year pilot initiative, which has received more than £25K of funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, is part of Norfolk Community Foundation’s Together for Women and Girls programme. The Foundation was inspired to set up the programme in 2018 to help local women and girls overcome challenges in their lives and realise their aspirations. The new mentoring initiative has had an encouraging start. Norfolk Community Foundation has successfully recruited a team of volunteer mentors from a range of professional backgrounds to support and motivate young women who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET. Through the partnership with The Prince’s Trust, these mentors are receiving training and will be matched with up to 40 local young women to help them achieve and sustain success in education, employment or training. After evaluating the difference the pilot has made to the lives of these young women it is hoped that the initiative will be extended and rolled out more widely. Find out more
From Saturday 19th November, step inside our magical Christmas grotto, where you’ll have the chance to meet Father Christmas himself. Our elves will be on hand to help you to create your very own Christmas bird feeder wreath and children will also have the chance to offer a special wish to our conservation wishing tree!
Help Father Christmas save our native birds at Banham Zoological Gardens this festive season.
Our magical Christmas grotto returns for 2022, offering you a unique, fully immersive Santa experience.
Step foot into our magical woodland-themed grotto as our Christmas elves guide you through two enchanting activity rooms, before getting the chance to meet Father Christmas himself.
What’s included
Our Christmas Grotto experience offers 3 Christmas-themed activities as well as all-day entry to the zoo!
Once you have checked in to Santa’s workshop, children will meet our very own conservation Christmas elves, and will offer a Wish for the world on our awe-inspiring Christmas Wishing Tree!
Up next, head inside our woodland workshop, where our elves will be on hand to explain the importance of protecting native species and will help you create your very own Christmas bird feeder wreath.
Finish your magical Christmas experience with a trip inside Father Christmas’ front room. Meet Father Christmas in person where each child will receive a special present, helping them to protect native birds this winter.
Each Christmas Grotto ticket includes entry to Banham Zoological Gardens, where you’ll have the whole day to play, learn, and discover more about our natural world.
Ride the Winter express, warm up at our Nutcracker hot chocolate shacks, meet some of our smallest residents in the Discovery Centre for Conservation Education, and going to eye to eye with some of the world’s most amazing animals.
This truly is a unique Christmas grotto experience, that’s not to be missed.
Book online: www.zsea.org/banham/tickets/banham-zoo-christmas-grotto
A children’s book about the adventures of a loveable hedgehog is set to raise vital funds for charity.
The Cathedral Hedgehogs is aimed at youngsters between the ages of four and eight and has been written and illustrated by Philippa Bonomally.
It costs £5 and proceeds will be split between East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) and the Hedgehog Haven rescue centre, in North Walsham.
“I really enjoyed the creative process of writing this book,” said Philippa, 70.
“It kept me going throughout lockdown and the idea came when my cousin found a poorly baby hedgehog in her garden. She lives in Cathedral Close.
“We took it to the vets and, thankfully, it made a full recovery. That’s what inspired me to write a children’s story.
“The main character is a naughty hedgehog called Benedict, born in a compost heap belonging to the Bishop of Norwich.
“The book is in two parts and I left him at the top of the cathedral spire at the end of the first story. I then wrote a sequel to get him down!
“In the second part, he has to be rescued by a steeplejack and goes on a big adventure, getting into all sorts of mischief and meeting other animals, including more hedgehogs, an owl and a group of singing bats. He also has a scrape with a hungry badger.”
The Cathedral Hedgehogs has a Christmassy theme.
Two hundred copies of the book have been printed and signed ‘With love from Benedict and Phillipa’.
They are available to buy in EACH’s shops in Unthank Road, Norwich, and Cromer.
“I’m very proud of it and the black and white illustrations have come out well,” added Philippa, who lives in Costessey, near Norwich.
“I’m delighted to be supporting two very special charities.
“I love hedgehogs so was keen to support Hedgehog Haven.
“As for EACH, it’s hard to think of a better or more worthy charity right here in the heart of our community.”
EACH supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions.
It has three hospices, including The Nook, in Framingham Earl.
Image credits EACH
Contract Personnel are one of East Anglia’s largest independent recruitment agencies – helping companies fill their vacancies for over 33 years.
They specialise in Temporary and Permanent recruitment and operative in the Driving, Industrial, Commercial and Engineering sectors.
With offices in Norwich and Thetford, new and exciting jobs are always being added to their website.
The company have also launched their brand new Interview Job Bus, which is currently visiting Great Yarmouth Market each week to help people into work.
People are able to arrange interviews and registrations in the bus, with the ability to meet in different towns and villages across Norfolk & Suffolk.
The bus regularly visits locations across the area and also can be found at local events. Follow Contract Personnel on Facebook for the full lowdown.
Contract Personnel are also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
If you would like to have a chat about how Contract Personnel can help your company, get in touch with the team today. Their Norwich office can be reached on 01603 764044 and Thetford 01842 750222.
Or you can register a vacancy here – https://contract-personnel.com/register-a-vacancy/
With your support, the Norwich Business Beats Cancer Board, will play a key role in the fight against cancer. We are looking to bring together a group of committed, dynamic and influential individuals from across the city to help Cancer Research UK realise it’s vision.
We need your support to develop and host a fundraising proposition for businesses, private clients, advisers and inspiring philanthropists to support our life-saving research. In return for your input we hope to bring significant value to you and your business by positioning you as a key game changer in the Norwich Business Beats Cancer Board.
Every pound raised will stay in East Anglia and go towards the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Centre and will help fund the lifesaving research of our amazing scientists, doctors and nurses.
With your support we can make sure even more people survive cancer in the future.
If you would like to find out more about Norwich Business Beats Cancer, general fundraising for Cancer Research UK, or would like any support or materials for any activities you have planned, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected] .
Leading law firm Howes Percival has advised the shareholders of Touchdown PR Limited on the sale of the entire issued share capital of the company to US headquartered Ruder Finn, one of the world’s largest independent global communications and creative agencies.
Howes Percival advised the sellers on all aspects of the transaction from heads of terms stage through to completion. Forward Corporate Finance also advised the sellers. Hogan Lovells International LLP acted for the Buyer.
Founded by James and Emma Carter 16 years ago, Touchdown specialises in servicing clients in the enterprise technology innovation sector, ranging from cyber security, data protection/management and storage, big data, AI and cloud.
Touchdown helps brands break into markets typically dominated by incumbent technology companies, by delivering earned, owned and paid media airtime. Clients include Barracuda, Bitdefender, Exabeam, Cubic, Globalization Partners, Forter, and Progress Software.
The agency operates in North America, across Central and Western Europe and in all major Asian markets and is headquartered in Basingstoke and Austin, Texas.
The Howes Percival team was headed up by Oliver Pritchard with assistance from Lizzy Page and Tom Maksymiw (corporate), Jonathan Mumby (employment) and Jenna Bruce (intellectual property, IT and data protection).
Howes Percival’s Oliver Pritchard commented, “We were really pleased to be able to advise Touchdown on this transaction. The deal represents a good outcome for all parties and lays the foundations for a positive future working relationship going forward. Despite the recent economic uncertainty, there is still an appetite to complete M&A transactions. We continue to receive instructions from sellers who are looking to sell their businesses for a good price and there are certainly businesses looking at acquisitions to facilitate growth.”
James Carter, CEO at Touchdown commented, “Despite the aggressive timeframe for the deal, the team at Howes Percival remained diligent, thorough and professional the entire way through the process. We always felt our interests were kept front of mind during the negotiations and the team’s attention to detail and commitment to get the job done played a key part in keeping a fast-moving deal on track.”
For more information on Howes Percival’s Corporate team or help with acquisitions or disposals, please visit our website here https://www.howespercival.com/services/corporate/
Image of Oliver Pritchard, Howes Percival provided by Howes Percival
Get Ready for Business Growth is an Arts Council England funded programme designed to help creative businesses that are looking to grow. It is bespoke to each business’s needs, entirely free and takes place online.
There is more information about the programme and the first stage of the application process at https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/get-ready-for-business-growth