Age UK Norwich and Panacea Pause are thrilled by the success of their Navigating Menopause programme. Designed to empower women with the knowledge and tools to navigate the challenges of menopause, the programme has transformed the lives of countless participants.
Our social, leisure and learning community activity programme for September includes Sunday lunch club visits to The Black Boys PH in Aylsham, and Supper Clubs visits to Cuba Revolution in Norwich. Two sessions of physical exercise take place at the Norwich Fitness Academy, whilst our regular ten pin Tuesday sessions happen at Hollywood Bowl (Norwich) and Strikes (Dereham). 69 separate activities over the 30 days of September are on offer to anyone, with any disability aged 18 or over in Norfolk, through our affordable membership scheme. Full details at https://www.buildcharity.co.uk/joining-in.
The BUILD Charity has hosted a camping weekend for 12 of its members at the Kearns Foundation’s Log Cabin and Campsite at Trimingham in North Norfolk. Many of the BUILD members live in residential care or supported living, or with family carers, so the chance to be outside and learn open fire cooking skills, teamwork, self-management, as well as tent pitching takes them very much out of their usual comfort zone but according to CEO and event organiser James Kearns the benefits are wider. “These weekends build self-confidence, time management, budgeting and social skills in a fast, but fun environment showing our members that they are often capable of being more independent than they, or sometimes their carers, might think”. To find out more about BUILD’s GetAways programme visit GetAways and the BUILD Travel Service.
Nor-Folk is a graphic design led lifestyle brand, founded by husband and wife team Fiona and Bobby Burrage of The Click Design Consultants. Launched earlier this year, Nor-Folk has enjoyed rapid growth in sales and serves a global customer base.
Nor-Folk was merely a side project when it started -part of The Click’s ten year anniversary celebrations (as featured in Creative Review), although, six months on, it has made the rapid transition from being an extra-curricular self-initiated ‘project’ to fully-fledged ‘proper business’.
Headed up (on a day-to-day basis) by Fiona, Nor-Folk now sells to circa 50 stockists worldwide and has a growing social media presence, including 30k+ followers on Instagram.
Nor-Folk continues to add to the product range, which includes apparel for adults and children, as well as homewares.
In addition, they curate a Journal with content from the fellow Nor-Folk team, including posts on fashion, food, visual stories and more.
You can shop Nor-Folk here and follow on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
You can have your say on Norfolk County Council’s budget proposals, as consultation starts on next year’s spending plans.
Consultation on the council’s proposed share of Council Tax and its savings proposals will take place up until 14th December, at www.norfolk.gov.uk/budget .
Cabinet member for finance, Councillor Andrew Jamieson, encouraged people to take part in the consultation, to help the council shape its priorities at a time of “almost unprecedented risk and uncertainty.”
He said: “The council must now plan for the ‘triple whammy’ impacts of rising budget pressures, uncertainty over Government funding, and the financial challenges associated with COVID-19.”
About the consultation:
The council is consulting on the level of Council Tax and adult social care precept. People can also comment on the proposed budget approach and savings proposals.
Two specific proposals people can comment on in detail include reducing the amount of grass cutting and reducing opening hours at recycling centres.
People can respond at www.norfolk.gov.uk/budget or write to Freepost Plus RTCL-XSTT-JZSK, Norfolk County Council, Ground floor – south wing, County Hall. Martineau Lane, NORWICH, NR1 2DH – they do not need to use a stamp.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our ‘domination screen’enabling us to reach in excess of 350,000 people per week. The screen is situated at the main pedestrian entrance of the Riverside complex, viewable by all traffic on this major commuter link and bus route, as well as passing footfall and those accessing the Train Station or en route to Carrow Road football ground. The screen will also benefit from peak audiences due to events such as Norwich City FC home games,major Odeon cinema film releases, school holidays, rush hour etc.
With the launch of the third screen, we are now running two different advertising packages. We have our ‘Gym Circuit’ – comprising of two well-respected branded gyms, both with excellent membership numbers and footfalls. And our ‘Domination Circuit’ – comprising of both the gym screens and the domination screen located at Wherry Road, viewable to the public and switched on 24/7.
We are also happy to announce with a BIGwelcome tointu Chapelfieldthe latest Norfolk based business to our digital signage networks across Norfolk!The ad is displayed on our domination circuit and was designed byFOUR Agencycreating a fun and festive advertisement, aiming to entice consumers to the late night shopping hours the shopping centre has to offer throughout December. By using a combination of motion graphics and informative content, FOUR agency certainly created an advertisement we find indulging. Using bright vibrant colours and the implementation of some playful props the ad is certainly brought to life. We simply LOVE IT!!
Saxon Air is proud to announce the successful completion of the Air League’s inaugural Electric Flying Scholarship, hosted within the Klyne Business Aviation Centre at Saxon Air’s Flight Training school.
In the second of their series of special interview episodes, Mark and James lift the lid on the important topic of diversity in the workplace and discuss what business leaders can do now to tackle this pertinent issue.
Joining Mark and James this month are guest speakers from Abstract, an award-winning learning and development company that changes people’s lives. Sue Liburd MBE is an award-winning businesswoman, human capital innovation consultant and business mentor; and Andy Nicol is a former rugby union player, who represented his country for 10 years from 1991, and also played for the British Lions on two tours in New Zealand in 1993 and Australia in 2001. Andy is now the CEO of Abstract.
Sue and Andy talk through the importance, for business leaders, of the key elements of inclusive leadership and how to ensure diversity in the workplace. Then, to wrap up, three key points to take away, from Mark and James.
You can listen here, and now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts here!
Smash Marketing are very excited to announce that they are finalists for the Getting S*** Done Award: Implementor Of The Year at the National Entrepreneur Awards! Beks from Smash says, “This is a huge privilege for us and our very proactive team and we are excited to see what this holds for us.
Trust, but Verify. A phrase you may have heard from Ronald Regan during his time as president of the USA.
Being an employer, you are the president and leader of your company. A company you may have started from scratch and poured everything into making it a success. You have a team of staff employed to support the business and help it grow and exceed your expectations.
The staff have been chosen by you. You trust them and have a good working relationship to know the work will be completed. But how well do you really know them? We often hear leaders and directors tell us how they know their staff well and can tell us about family connections from the chat they had at the kettle last week while making a cup of tea. But do your employees really tell you everything? The answer I’m afraid is no.
You could have a brilliant member of staff but for whatever reason a personal matter puts them into financial vulnerability. You may notice they are not as punctual with their time keeping. They may be slightly quieter than normal maybe. You know them though, right? They are continuing to manage your payroll on their own and keeping up with the workload during your own busy workload right?
Then you realise money is unaccounted for. Verify.
You notice this has been ongoing for over 12 months.
Tens of thousands of pounds gone. No trace and it is all gone.
That one employee who you knew well and trusted but didn’t verify, has taken thousands from the business. The money has gone. The employee used the money to keep afloat after that personal matter which made them financially vulnerable.
Verify. This is the key.
Former GP staff member pleads guilty to stealing £22k from surgery
A former GP staff member who had taken over the sole banking of cash from payments for prescriptions and other items was not banking the money and keeping it for themselves. This went on from 2019 til 2022 before it was picked up by external accountants.
Placing one employee as the sole responsibility for banking and cash transactions is where this GP practice went wrong. They did not evaluate their staff processes to ensure it went through 2 or 3 other employees to verify any transactions. It unfortunately went undetected for nearly 3 years. This employee is currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of fraud by abuse of position and acquiring, using, or possessing criminal property at North East Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court on 27 June 2024.
Some tips to manage risk of employment theft and fraud from your business:
If you have any concerns around your employees or business partners, don’t hesitate to get in touch for a free consultation to discuss how our services can help.
And remember, Trust, but Verify!
If you need assistance for any of our employment or commercial services, get in touch!
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At OPCoachUK we describe ourselves as organisational psychologists and coaches. We also have deep HR expertise. However, we know that doesn’t automatically describe our offering. Particularly with our focus on SMEs, we know that we need to outline what we do, and how it creates positive impact. We don’t expect any CEO to cry out, “Help! For the love of Mike, I need an Organisational Psychologist!”. However, experience tells us that we have a lot to offer any growing SME with ambitions to be a top employer.
At the highest level, we enable organisations to give to and get the best from their people in a way that is fully tailored to business goals, culture and individuals. We have over 10 years of experience of being the oil that gets the engine into perfect performance and allows the leaders to drive the supercar.
That still isn’t very descriptive, so in more detail, what we do depends on the size of business. In organisations that are pre-HR, we can set you on the road to building effective and efficient mechanisms that enable your team members to grow with you. We know how to accurately define an organisation’s culture so that the culture feeds the organisation’s success. All the best People/HR processes feed and refine that culture, while boosting the success of the business.
We can also start from a point of enabling you to manage your team’s performance in a meaningful, but lightly engineered way. The words “performance management” can be very off-putting to a CEO who values their team already, but performance maximisation is quite a different thing. Light touch, heavy impact performance maximisation enables leaders, managers and their teams to stay firmly on a path of professional growth.
In larger organisations that are more “M” and already have an HR/People team, we work to ensure that the nuts and bolts of people management are aligned to your business goals. We can provide training and upskill your managers in the smooth running of their team. If it will work in your business, we can introduce the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to smooth working. Alternatively, we can embed CliftonStrengths to help people to focus on their talents. We also offer straightforward, traditional coaching to leaders and managers. Your people come to sessions with something they want to work on professionally, and we enable and encourage them to succeed within your framework. Coaching is very powerful; it powers growth, reduces stress and drives up retention.
In terms of duration, we can do short-order pieces of work, such as a culture diagnostic. We can do medium-term projects, such as setting up/refining people processes. We can even do long-term work, where your team gets to work with the same coach over a longer period. In these instances we become the oil that keeps the team growing and we vastly reduce the time a leadership team spends on negative People issues.
Regardless of size of business, this begins with discussion around your business goals and your aspirations for your team. Tell us your ambitions and we will suggest how we can support you. If you are situated close to Norwich or Bristol, we’d love to come and meet you. Otherwise, we have traditionally performed most of our work remotely, so you’re more than welcome to speak to us through video call.
We naturally won’t charge for the initial consultation or the resulting proposal. The first 10 leaders who respond to this post and decide to go ahead on the first project of any size will get a 10% discount on our usual prices for that project. For more information, please contact us through opcoach.uk and mention NCC August 2024.