The Norwich Christmas Breakfast has been the most popular Norfolk Chamber breakfast networking event year on year. Attracting over 100 businesses, the morning features a Chamber Member charity, festive networking activities and a hearty breakfast for a cold winter’s morning. On 6 December we headed for the Holiday Inn at the airport, armed with Christmas crackers and 130 attendee badges. Our featured charity this year was East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) who are in the final stages of building their new hospice here in Norfolk. Attendees came in force in their Christmas attire, bringing donations for EACH, ranging from biscuits to toothbrushes, helping them to stock important goods for the new hospice. The event opened with free networking time for attendees to grab a drink and meet some new and old faces. Once everyone had taken a seat, we kicked things off with a talk from EACH, updating everyone on the building of the new hospice, the nook, and telling attendees about the all the fundraising they can get involved in. This was followed by a quick networking activity before the Christmas crackers were pulled and breakfast had been served. This gave delegates time to network on their tables and get great discussions going. We then moved on to hold two more networking activities. For the first, delegates had to order a list of Christmas songs by their release dates, the second they had to match up film quotes to the films. With the event ending the final task was to pick our ‘Best Christmas Outfit’ winner. Chris Cliffe of CJC Procurement Ltd took third place with a light up jumper, Alex Wiseman from Indigo Swan also rivalled with his light up jumper taking second place. However, there could only be one winner, and it had to be David Tuthill from Coleman Opticians. David not only sported a wonderful Christmas jumper, but he wore clip on baubles in his beard throughout the entire event, making him a worthy winner. The morning then ended with thanks from EACH for the kind donations, and from Norfolk Chamber to everyone for attending. As our last event of the year, we wished everyone a Merry Christmas as they left to go back to their day.
