Be your own boss – ever thought of starting a new business?
Join Paul Gardner from Great Yarmouth Borough Council for an informal two hour journey around the world of self employment to find out how you could get your ideas off to a flying start.
Learn more about getting customers, putting together successful advertising and how to set up and run a business professionally.
12:00 – 12:30
Arrival for F&D Businesses
12:30 – 15:30
Festive F&D Workshop
15:30 – 16:00
Arrival of Attendees
16:00 – 16:30
Panel with Project Beneficiaries
Jordan Sharman (BFIC)
Mike Deal (Wildcraft Brewery)
Helen Adshead (Weddell & Turner)
James Robins (Jimmy’s Limoncello)
16:30 – 18:30
Networking with Live Music
18:30
Close
Within our Accountants Technical Programme, together, we will discuss:
Join us at 8am for breakfast, with refreshments throughout the sessions, before we conclude at 11am.
CPD credits are available for these seminars.
Mattioli Woods plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Bia kitchen are taking their street food indoors for what will hopefully be the first of many pop ups at our business rooms No8 Thorpe Road.
They will be serving a number of lovely menu items ranging from a Bruschetta containing diced tomatoes, basil & garlic on toasted italian bread for brunch to a hot sauce coated cauliflower bitess with a cool dipping sauce as a passing snack!
Make sure you do not miss this brilliant event!
Come by and try some brand new menu items as well as our firm favourites!
For more information on the event click here
Join Clapham & Collinge at our Norwich office this September for our annual summer networking event, Lunch On The Green.
Taking place on Thursday 21st September, this year’s event promises to be an excellent afternoon of networking. With catering by The Feed, live music from Barny Holmes, and wine tasting with Harper Wells, Lunch On The Green is a great way to connect with faces old and new, whilst raising vital funds for Break Charity.
Tickets cost £18 + VAT, including a light lunch/canapes from The Feed, and a drinks token redeemable at Harper Wells’ wine tasting stand.
Please note, the ticket price on this booking page is including VAT.
For general enquiries, or information on stand bookings, please email [email protected].
Pictures and feedback from last year’s event can be found on our website: Lunch on the Green 2022: Summer networking at its finest! | Clapham & Collinge (clapham-collinge.co.uk)
We invite you to join us as we throw open our doors for you to view our beautifully appointed hotel. Meet our experienced Events Team and let us help you to plan a special occasion in 2024 and beyond.
The Maids Head Open Day provides the perfect opportunity for you to view our 6 versatile and charming event spaces. You will also be able to view a selection of our bedrooms and uniquely designed suites
The team will be on hand to offer their expertise and advice and to show you around our stunning venue.
Whether you are looking for all things weddings from the day itself, a Hen Party Afternoon Tea, a pre wedding dinner or maybe just a night to spend your
We will also be there to discuss how you might wish to plan a very special occasion with family and friends, from a birthday party to Anniversary Dinner.
Or maybe you are looking for a corporate event, from a meeting room to a private dining experience, we can also assist with this as well.
We work with some amazing local independent suppliers who will also be on hand to meet you. In addition, take a spin around the City in one of our vintage Bentleys. These beautiful cars are available to our guests, find out more by talking to the team. Norwich certainly is a great place to hold an event!
There is no need to book. But if you would like to find our more, or to make an appointment, please contact Rose, 01603 272008 or email [email protected].
Join UEA’s Norwich Business School and NatWest on Wednesday 20th September for a morning of networking, business engagement and the chance to hear from a diverse set of speakers about the financial and expert support available for SMEs across East Anglia.
Keynote speakers from NatWest, UEA’s Help to Grow Management Course and our business partners will help direct you to the most appropriate type of business support to deliver growth, resilience, and innovation in your organisation.
There will opportunities for networking and building your relationships with a range of exhibitors and attendees. In addition to the wide audience this event will appeal to, stakeholder partners are keen to attract female and ethnic minority SME leaders, to communicate the support that exists to help secure growth.
Book yourself a place on the event today to find out more about the expertise and support on offer to future-proof your business. Bookings can be made via Eventbrite here: https://bit.ly/455zpqO
If you have any general queries please email: [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. Hope to see you on the 20th!
Norfolk County Council are pleased to invite local businesses to a Net Zero Conference and Lunch at Gressenhall Environment Hub near Dereham, on Tuesday 20th June from 0930 to 1300. This event aims to accelerate action on reducing carbon emissions with insights from those already on their journey to Net Zero and support for businesses just getting started.
Businesses will hear How Aviva, Holkham and the Wendling Beck Environment Project have put strategy into action with nature-based climate solutions, delivering landscape-scale change here in Norfolk. A discussion panel hosted by the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce will explore the unique challenges faced by the SME community, and there will be an opportunity to take part in a Carbon Accounting and Net Zero Strategy workshop (1300 to 1430, spaces limited) delivered by sustainability specialists Triple Bottom Line Accounting. Those not taking part in the workshop can experience a guided tour of the new environmental learning and engagement hub being created at Gressenhall Museum, which aims to inspire public action on climate and biodiversity.
Register here by June 14th with your name, organisation, dietary requirements and whether you would like to take part in the workshop or tour.
From Apprenticeships Norfolk:
Happy National Apprenticeship Week 2024!
Have you ever wondered what we can do differently to recognise apprentices in the workplace? Join our next employer network meeting to find out how other businesses ensure that their apprentices feel valued and supported!
You can now book your free ticket via Eventbrite to secure your space: click here
We are delighted to be welcoming Dave Walker from Bill Cleyndert & Company and Gemma Buck from CVS Group who will be sharing insights into what effective apprentice recognition can look like. The evening will offer a mix of informative talks, networking opportunities, and plenty of time for questions and discussions. This will be a valuable session for anyone who is supporting apprentices in the workplace, such as business owners, HR / L&D professionals, and line managers.
The network meeting will take place on 29 February 2024, 5:30-7:30pm at the Marble Hall in Norwich. Spaces are limited, so if you have not already booked a free ticket, you can do so on Eventbrite via the above link.
Our next breakfast will be held on March 23rd 2016 at the Maids Head Hotel in the Oak Room at a cost of £11.00pp and you can book a place here
Below is a review of the last breakfast we held:
Breakfast with James Duez: Imagining a World with Unlimited Computing
Norfolk Developers held their held their final breakfast of 2015 at the Maids Head Hotel on 16th December at the Maids Head Hotel and despite the early start drew a good crowd of techies and non-techies alike. James Duez was the morning’s speaker, tackling the epic subject of a world with unlimited computing over a full English.
Essentially in James’ world of super fast, super economical super-computers, everything would be better.
Healthcare could be revolutionized, bioinformatic searches carried out in the blink of an eye and weather forecasting would be, well, accurate. There are just two things standing in the way. The cost of producing these computers and then the energy they require to function. James’ company Optalysys is in the process of creating an optical processor, with the aim of significantly reducing the build cost and the running cost of super fast computers, and they are two years away from their goal. Using high grade liquid crystal and optical lasers he predicts they will be able to perform a multitude of functions in a fraction of the time it currently takes, impacting on just about every possible area of life.Optalysys are already working withthe Genome Project in Norwich and theEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Among all the highly technical, almost futuristic, talk, I discovered a new favourite word. ‘Petaflop’ is a measurement of computer processing speed, but in my mind it’s the next generation of Pokemon. Don’t even get me started on Gigaflop….
I thought you’d like to know that Microsoft and the Guardian have joined the NorDevCon2016 line up!
Building applications using the Universal Windows Platform (Friday) Paul Foster (Microsoft)
Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which further evolves the Windows Runtime model and brings it into the Windows 10 unified core. As part of the core, the UWP now provides a common app platform available on every device that runs Windows 10. With this evolution, apps that target the UWP can call not only the WinRT APIs that are common to all devices, but also APIs (including Win32 and .NET APIs) that are specific to the device family the app is running on. The UWP provides a guaranteed core API layer across devices. In this demo rich session, we will have some fun exploring how to build an application to run across several device families.
Deep Impact – Agile and Analytics at the Guardian (Saturday) Dominic Kendrick (The Guardian)
The talk will showcase the improvements and benefits that come from putting data analysis and measurement at the heart of your agile processes.
I will talk about the techniques we have used on various projects across The Guardian to help us save money and improve the impact of the work we deliver, and explain how you can use these to get all aspects of your business thinking hard about what features and projects they want to deliver.
Get your NorDevCon 2016 tickets here.
Chadwicks are hosting a Business Leaders event that may be of interest. We will be looking at the steps a business can take in the years leading to an exit to increase the chances of success.
Whether the business is to be passed on to the next family generation, the management team or to a new owner completely it is vital as little value as possible is lost in the transfer. We will consider where the value really sits in a business, how this can be enhanced, where it is vulnerable and how it can be better protected.
A well-executed plan, even if it seems too far in advance will ensure that the business can continue to thrive and grow and your investment of time and resources will continue to deliver long-term benefits for everyone involved.
Speakers
Richard Ross has 25 years’ experience advising clients on exit strategies, typically at retirement. He has an MBA from UEA and his dissertation looked at the SME ownership transfer market with particular emphasis on retaining value and momentum post-sale.
James Hunter is a partner at the law firm, Mills & Reeve LLP. He specialises in M&A transactions and acts for buyers and sellers of privately owned businesses. The Mills & Reeve corporate team was ranked in the top 10 in the UK for the number of deals advised in 2022 and voted corporate law firm of the year at the Insider Dealmaker Awards in the Central and Eastern Region in 2022.
Would you be interested in attending?
Please RSVP, or register your place(s) here; Latest Masterclasses – Preparing for Business Succession (chadwicks.co.uk