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Join us on Thursday 30th May 2013 from 4.30pm to 7pm for a warm welcome to our wonderful Hotel.

All welcome just RSVP to Sarah by email [email protected] or call 07436 162697

Networking, meet your local business representatives, managers or owners – enjoy a free glass of wine with delicious canapes – have some fun with our Casino Tables and Magician – Smile for the Camera with Diamond Photographic taking all of our event photos

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sarah & Gareth

The Purpose is a free to attend meetup with the goal of supporting and helping our businesses, communities and families thrive.

The Purpose Meetup is for small business owners that want to increase their connections, share knowledge and grow their business. The group is fully funded by NatWest Entrepreneurship and open to any business regardless of size or trading history. The group aims to build on the Rose Review into female entrepreneurship and support business owners across the East

So, what makes The Purpose different from “Networking”

“Networking is about sharing, not taking. It is about forming trust and helping one another toward goals. Regularly engaging with your contacts and finding opportunities to assist them helps to strengthen the relationship. By doing this, you sow the seeds for reciprocal assistance when you need help to achieve your goals.”

Networking can be a room full of sellers, with no interest in supporting you or your business. Are they there for themselves, you or is it the free coffee and biscuits…? Have you experienced that moment when a shiny new business card is thrust into your hand and how did it make you feel?

The Purpose is not a traditional network group with 60 second pitches. Don’t panic if you don’t have one prepared!

The Purpose Meetups are structured to engage participants, encourage free thought and knowledge exchange. Most importantly, we want everyone involved to take away a positive action for their business or life. Even as a group, we all have a voice and we can all learn from collective experience.

What can I expect when joining the event

• We open the meeting and introduce ourselves through the chat function
• Update on business or member news
• The Hot Topic
• Breakout, Discuss, share
• What we’ve learned
• AOB & Close

Take your business to the next level with a 90 day plan

About this Event

Small businesses are the engine of the UK economy and account for 60% of all private sector jobs and £1.75 trillion of revenue. Here at NatWest we want to help local businesses scale and grow into the big firms of tomorrow. One tool that helps successful businesses of all sizes is a 90 day plan.

In this session we explore what a 90 day plan is and how you can use it to grow your business with specific individual actions. At the end of the presentation you will take away your own 90 day plan which you have built for your business. Our presenters for this series of events are Phil and Rob from the Business Growth Coach network

Key Benefits of a 90 Day Business Plan

• The time period is long enough
• Clarity
• Review as You Go
• Celebrate the Wins!
• Easily Adjustable
• It is easy to complete and follow

The event will be held on Zoom

Develop Key Workplace Resilience Skills

Programme Overview

Designed to help people in the workplace who are expected to perform effectively in highly demanding environments, this one-day workshop will help delegates understand how they can develop a resilient attitude to a range of scenarios that may in the past have created a high degree of anxiety. 

The Details

Date: 26th May 2021 Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm, split into 4 distinct sessions Duration: 1 Day Cost: £225 + VAT (RRP £250) Location: Held Virtually via Zoom

Core topics developed during this workshop

• Developing your level of resilience
• Understand and learn to manage your emotions
• Enhance performance and well-being at work
• Sustaining peak levels of performance
• Developing levels of adaptability, flexibility and confidence
• Understanding how your motivation can impact on the morale of your team 

Workshop Content

• Understand how resilient attitudes and behaviours can be learned
• How to enhance performance and well-being at work
• Be able to sustain performance and effectiveness under pressure
• Regard change as a challenge and an opportunity
• Developing the ability to bounce back quicker from adversity
• Have increased adaptability, flexibility and confidence
• Acquire a stronger sense of control when faced with uncertainty
• Build strong and supportive relationships with colleagues
• Identifying tools and techniques for improving optimism and emotional regulation
• Stay motivated and focused and help maintain morale in your team
• Change previous responses to pressure to more effective resilient ones
• Review ‘real actions’ to apply in the workplace:
• What can we do straightaway?
• What can we work towards?

Testimonials

“Without doubt the best course I have been on. At no times was anyone disengaged ….”

“Great course, really helped me think about how I can change things and my way of working…”  

How To Book

Book your place on the session here. Please ensure you let the team know you found this session through the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce! 

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an exciting idea and want to understand how you can create a thriving business?

Utilising content from our successful ‘Activate’ series, which over the past 6 years has helped 100’s of aspiring entrepreneurs across Norfolk and Suffolk, Build a Business in a Day helps the time-poor and idea-rich to develop an idea and turn it into a feasible and sustainable venture.

Work with other aspiring entrepreneurs and turn the idea you jotted down in a note book, into an exciting business opportunity.

The content explored throughout the day is collaborative and gives you the opportunity to ask questions to the Hethel advisors and others in the room, benefitting from a variety of experiences and backgrounds to help fuel your idea and make it a success.

Whether you have an idea and looking to explore further, or have recently started a business and want to confirm you’ve setup effectively, Build a Business in a Day will help you!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Q6X34U

For the fourth in our series of masterclasses for business owners and managers looking to develop their skills we will start to think about the use of search engines and the future of digital marketing .

Our guest speaker for this masterclass will be Mark Cook from ApplinSkinner.

Mark Cook Mark is Director at ApplinSkinner, a user-centred design and digital marketing agency. For the last 13 years, Mark has been advising brands such as Expedia, Hitachi and Groupon on their digital strategy as well as running his own online businesses. Currently heading up the ApplinSkinner marketing team, Mark is also studying Machine Learning with the University of Washington and providing digital training for companies and agencies around the country. 

Book your free place here.

To complement the two day Southern North Sea Conference, EEEGR will host a Conference Dinner on the evening of Wednesday 28 February. Over dinner, key industry players will network to make new business contacts, and liaise with their current clients. A drinks reception will be followed by three course dinner and after dinner speaker and makes for the perfect evening of corporate entertainment. The ticket price also includes two bottles of wine per table.

This event will also take place at the Norfolk Showground Arena. Don’t miss out on an excellent opportunity to network with your fellow industry professionals, or to entertain clients.

Conference Closes 17:00 Networking Drinks Reception in the Exhibition Hall 17:30-18:30 Dinner 18:30 for 19:00 Welcome Speech 18:45 Carriages 23:00 Dress Code Business Attire

Have you ever heard of experiential tourism?

Do you know how it can help you attract visitors?

Do you have any ideas of an activity or experience that could appeal to visitors?

These free online workshops by the EXPERIENCE project are aimed at anyone who either already works in tourism in Norfolk or has ideas for an activity or experience that may appeal to visitors.

Workshop 1: Tap in to what visitors really want: An introduction to experiential tourism  

Workshop 2: How to develop a visitor experience

Chris Brant, Tourism Business Advisor from Unmissable England, will lead both interactive workshops on behalf of the EXPERIENCE project. In his spare time, Chris is an experience maker – running visitor experiences from his home, including baking scones in a thatched cottage and hosting vineyard tours with wine and gin tasting.

In our first workshop, Tap in to what visitors really want: An introduction to experiential tourism, we’ll give you insights about how creating visitor experiences can help you capture the imagination – and bookings – of tourists. This includes experiences that are part of your day-to- day life that you might not realise could appeal to visitors, as well as adapting an activity you already offer or creating a brand new experience.

Chris will offer expert advice about how experiential tourism can help boost visitor numbers, using inspirational case studies. He’ll also give you his top tips on how to create a perfect experience.

Participants will also have the chance to take part in a Q&A session with two organisations that have come up with creative new visitor experiences to successfully boost business.

In the second workshop, How to develop a visitor experience, we’ll offer hands-on support to participants to learn how to use the inspiration of the rich history, culture and nature of Norfolk to create new visitor experiences.

You will be encouraged to exchange ideas about factors to consider when creating an experience, including target audiences, accessibility and sustainability, and pricing.

Chris will explain how you’ll be able to promote your new experiences via EXPERIENCE, online travel agents and the travel trade.

You’ll also have the chance to ask questions, and to network with fellow participants.

Attending the first workshop is strongly advised but not mandatory for attendance to the second workshop.

These events are open to any organisation, business or individual with or without previous involvement in tourism looking for insights and inspiration about ways to create memorable experiences for visitors outside the typical peak tourism season – which will help you establish, or expand into, a new market.

REGISTER NOW

Workshop 1 (choice of two dates)

To register to the session on Tuesday 25 May, 10-11.30am click here

To register to the session on Tuesday 8 June, 6.30-8pm click here

Workshop 2 (choice of two dates)

To register to the session on Tuesday 15 June, 10am-12.30pm click here

To register to the session on Thursday 24 June, 6-8.30pm click here  

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. For more information visit the EXPERIENCE website   

In our sixth masterclass for business owners and managers looking to enhance their skills we will hear from Joseph Cooksey, Digital Engagement Manager from Barclays.

Joseph will guide you through the maze of cyber security and help you prepare your business.

Joesph Cooksey Joseph joined Barclays in September 2007 as a personal banker in Ipswich. He became a branch manager in May 2008 and managed a number of branches in Suffolk. In April 2013 Joseph was a founder member of the Digital Eagles. The Digital Eagles were formed to help engage colleagues with new technology. They now provide support for colleagues and customers across the bank and the original 18 members have grown to over 18000. Joseph now works in the business bank helping relationship managers across East Anglia, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. He trains staff and presents at customer events on subject such as Big Data and Cyber Security.

Book your free place here.

Have you ever heard of experiential tourism?

Do you know how it can help you attract visitors?

Do you have any ideas of an activity or experience that could appeal to visitors?

These free online workshops by the EXPERIENCE project are aimed at anyone who either already works in tourism in Norfolk or has ideas for an activity or experience that may appeal to visitors.

Workshop 1: Tap in to what visitors really want: An introduction to experiential tourism  

Workshop 2: How to develop a visitor experience

Chris Brant, Tourism Business Advisor from Unmissable England, will lead both interactive workshops on behalf of the EXPERIENCE project. In his spare time, Chris is an experience maker – running visitor experiences from his home, including baking scones in a thatched cottage and hosting vineyard tours with wine and gin tasting.

In our first workshop, Tap in to what visitors really want: An introduction to experiential tourism, we’ll give you insights about how creating visitor experiences can help you capture the imagination – and bookings – of tourists. This includes experiences that are part of your day-to- day life that you might not realise could appeal to visitors, as well as adapting an activity you already offer or creating a brand new experience.

Chris will offer expert advice about how experiential tourism can help boost visitor numbers, using inspirational case studies. He’ll also give you his top tips on how to create a perfect experience.

Participants will also have the chance to take part in a Q&A session with two organisations that have come up with creative new visitor experiences to successfully boost business.

In the second workshop, How to develop a visitor experience, we’ll offer hands-on support to participants to learn how to use the inspiration of the rich history, culture and nature of Norfolk to create new visitor experiences.

You will be encouraged to exchange ideas about factors to consider when creating an experience, including target audiences, accessibility and sustainability, and pricing.

Chris will explain how you’ll be able to promote your new experiences via EXPERIENCE, online travel agents and the travel trade.

You’ll also have the chance to ask questions, and to network with fellow participants.

Attending the first workshop is strongly advised but not mandatory for attendance to the second workshop.

These events are open to any organisation, business or individual with or without previous involvement in tourism looking for insights and inspiration about ways to create memorable experiences for visitors outside the typical peak tourism season – which will help you establish, or expand into, a new market.

REGISTER NOW

Workshop 1 (choice of two dates)

To register to the session on Tuesday 25 May, 10-11.30am click here

To register to the session on Tuesday 8 June, 6.30-8pm click here

Workshop 2 (choice of two dates)

To register to the session on Tuesday 15 June, 10am-12.30pm click here

To register to the session on Thursday 24 June, 6-8.30pm click here  

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. For more information visit the EXPERIENCE website