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Welcome to the Norfolk Chambers podcast, in todays’ episode we’re going to chat to the brilliantly energetic Kathy Ennis, Director and Founder of LittlePiggy.
Kathy is an ideas person with 20+ years in Business, an Author, a Mentor and an Entrepreneur – and one of our most engaged members. From Freelancers, Side Hustles and Solopreneurs to the pandemic opportunities and pushing people to re-evaluate their careers and futures, this is a brilliant podcast to listen to if you’re thinking of starting a side hustle, a new venture or you need to be inspired!
Thousands of people are coming up with brilliant ideas, spotting gaps in the market, transitioning from employee to entrepreneur or turning their hobbies into successful businesses.
We will turn your ideas into a brilliant and profitable business.
Working together we will cover key areas so that you start your business the right way and nothing is left to chance.
Now booking for 23rd & 24th April and 1st May 2019
This qualification is designed to get managers and supervisors, from any sector, up to speed on the practical actions needed to make health and safety “happen” in their teams. IOSH is the professional association for safety and health practitioners, with a global name to back up their courses.
Subjects covered 1. Introducing Managing Safely 2. Identifying hazards and Assessing risks 3. Risk Control Strategies and Techniques 4. Understanding responsibilities at all levels 5. Measuring performance 6. Investigating accidents and incidents
What will staff get out of it? What they need to know in a refreshing, informal, interactive and entertaining way. Managing Safely will give delegates the knowledge and tools they need to tackle the health and safety issues they’re responsible for. This course brings home the reasons why health and safety is such an essential part of their jobs.
Minimum Teaching Time: Minimum face-to-face contact time of 22 hours, usually over 3 days (2 days, break, final day) plus time to complete the workplace based assignment
Assessment Format: Delegates will need to complete two types of assessment at the end of the course. The first assessment is a 25-question, multiple choice examination of the course syllabus. The second test is a short project on conducting a risk assessment.
Date: 23rd & 24th April and 1st May 2019
Prerequisites; this is a challenging course, and prior completion of a level 2 course or equivalent would be a benefit. Candidates will require a moderate level of functional skills/academic ability, and access to a computer, for assignment work, email, etc.
Course cost; £450.00 +VAT. This includes all training materials, course notes, etc. and refreshments including a light lunch
Course Tutors: Richard Mills is a Chartered Practitioner of 30 years’ experience in the profession; The RedCat Partnership has been providing training & consultancy in Norfolk, East Anglia and Nationally for over 19 years, as well as providing the best health and safety training facilities in Norfolk, at No8 Thorpe Road.
For more information or to book please contact us by email on reception@redcatpartnership.co.uk or 01603 473732
On Thursday our Events Manager, Amy Wright, and Digital Marketing Apprentice Emma Jermany attended the Royal Norfolk Show.
The annual event returned for 2022 after a 3-year hiatus for its 175th year and it attracted an estimated over 90k visitors and 700 businesses.
Amy and Emma spent the morning visiting some of our Chamber member’s stands including UPP, EACH, Norwich High School for Girls, Norwich City FC, Buy Local, Plant Grow, Barnham Broom, Anglian Car Charging, and not forgetting the Big C who had a great interactive stand.
They also visited the Beryl Bikes stand where they were offering prizes to win 100 free minutes by spinning a prize wheel.
After enjoying the RAF Falcons parachute display, it was time for our networking session at the Hospitality Tent.
Our COO Nova Fairbank and Amy Wright presented on the growth and Co.nnections for The Norfolk Chamber of Commerce followed by drinks and networking.
It was wonderful to see and network with so many Norfolk businesses, we’re already looking forward to the show next year.
Head over to The Place on Tuesdays throughout June to get some no-fee, no-obligation accountancy advice from Sharon of Mapus-Smith & Lemmon, a local accountancy firm based in King Street.
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Free to attend. Open to Norfolk Chamber members and non-members for a limited time.
Are you a manufacturer, warehouse or haulier of imported goods? Or are you planning to Import or Export to anywhere in the world? Or do you trade with any of the EU27 countries?
What is AEO – Authorised Economic Operator?
AEO is an internationally recognised quality kite mark issued by HMRC to traders who proactively manage risk and have fully documented systems and procedures in place controlling their international supply chain.
This Session run by Tracey Renshaw from Import Export Support will explain what an international AEO is and what benefits businesses will have once they obtain one.
About Tracey:
Prior to setting up as a consultant 3 years ago and following a long career in Finance during which I was captivated by understanding and resolving the issues that surround the importation, manufacture and re-export of goods. Back in 2014 I decided to set up Import Export Support with the primary reason to work with companies on their customs authorisations and procedures to help smooth out the ripples in the supply chain and to reduce the cost of moving stock around the globe. Since set up I have assisted companies who operate in different markets in their endeavours to improve their international activities with the main focus of my work to work closely with HMRC & the client to ensure and improve compliance in order to secure the benefits. I have submitted several successful duty reclaims, set up customs warehouses, gained customs simplifications including Authorised Economic Operator (AEO), Customs freight with simplified procedures (CFSP), Inward & Outward Processing authorisation (IP & OP) & Simplified Import VAT Accounting (SIVA) & assisted with setting up several Deferment Accounts with the new Combined customs guarantees (CCG).
“Your people are your biggest weakness when it comes to security”. You’ve probably heard this statement more than once.
We believe that this can, and should be a fallacy in all businesses when it comes to cyber security. We want to help you grow your people in to your biggest strength and asset.
So how do we get there? Well, Security is all about risk – appreciating it, understanding it, and reducing, mitigating or sometimes accepting it.
Beginning with a desire to create a culture of security within your business will set you off on the right path, and from here we’d suggest making this your guiding principle. You can read in detail about this here, where we will expand and share more about how your approach to cyber security feeds in to building this culture.
At CyberScale we talk a lot about taking a risk-based approach to Cyber Security. This is an approach that is tailored towards your specific business or organisation. It takes into account the specific data that you have, the way you use systems, the people you have in your organisation and their level of understanding of all things security, the processes that you have in place, and how all of these combine to create risks specific to you.
Different organisations will have different security requirements, that’s a given. But, what sort of differences are we talking about? Well firstly there is data. Some organisations are heavily reliant on data, some not so much. Some organisations collect and process particularly confidential or sensitive data, such as health data for instance.
Some organisations have employed staff only, where elements of security policy can be made part of their employment contract and ongoing training, whereas other organisations have a heavy reliance on freelancers or subcontract staff where this is not so easy. This will inevitably raise issues around building and embedding a culture of security. Management of systems used by these groups also differs in its level of practicality; managing and controlling devices which are company supplied is one thing, but devices owned by a freelancer or subcontractor present a particular challenge.
Going back to the beginning here will ensure that even though you’ve recognised these challenges you will be able to view them through the goal you have, which is to create a culture of security across all staff whether permanent or not. Having your guiding principles embedded in those who hire, onboard and work with all types of staff is going to be ever more important.
So how do we do this? Training. The answer seems simple, but it really isn’t at all. A culture of security will come from having a set of agreed and embedded values across the workforce which determines how everyone thinks about and approaches cybersecurity.
Training can have many aims, here it is to help you understand what you don’t know – what’s important, what to look at and prioritise when it comes to cyber security, and where to go for help that you can trust, both inside and outside of the business.
But it’s more than just telling you.
Through carefully designed exercises and discussions, we’ll help YOU discover how to determine what is important to your business, how to assess risks and impacts in a security context, and how to build a strategy and plan to improve security and reduce business risk. This is an ongoing commitment and when invested in regularly will move you towards building the security culture you seek.
With a combination of public courses where attendees will be from a range of organisations, and bespoke solutions for your business, we are experienced in ensuring that what we deliver suits the needs of your business.
We are focused on providing cyber security training that also brings personal benefits to individual attendees in their broader lives and not just in the workplace. We do not deliver a standard CBT session or something general, which might feel like a tick box exercise for the business and attendee, we ensure that we are linking the training with your specific process and policies.
A recent announcement from TV Licencing:
We offer our deepest condolences to the Royal Family following the death of Her Majesty The Queen. Her Majesty was the embodiment of public service.
We know that many communities may wish to come together and observe the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen and so the BBC is providing local communities a TV Licence dispensation. The dispensation will allow any communal setting where TV is not usually watched, such as town halls, community centres and libraries across the UK, to screen the live programmes without needing to purchase a licence.
We want to reach out to communities and those who are making arrangements to let them know that the dispensation is in place and therefore we welcome your support in making your service users aware.
By law, if live television or BBC iPlayer is viewed on any premises, those premises must be covered by a valid TV Licence. However, in exceptional circumstances, the BBC can grant a dispensation for the temporary viewing of television, so long as the viewing is for the sole purpose of screening an event which is judged by the BBC to be of national importance.
As the BBC Board has said, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a unifying figure across generations, communities and borders, who represented the very best of our nation. We are grateful at the BBC to have witnessed, recorded and shared so many of the special moments in her long life and reign. She will always be remembered with the greatest affection and admiration.
For further information click here.
Welcome to the Norfolk Chambers podcast – in this episode our CEO Chris Sargisson is talking with Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament and leader of the Norwich for Jobs Programme and also Matt Smith, Human Resources Director at Evander. This podcast was recorded at the Evander Head Office on Broadland Business Park in Norwich.
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The Government has announced that Norfolk and Suffolk will receive around £80m (€94.5m) of European funding for the period 2014-20. This includes ERDF and ESF funding with local funding under the European rural programmes to be confirmed at a later date. We need you to help shape how we prioritise investment of future EU Funds in Norfolk and Suffolk..
As part of this process, we are holding four workshop events in late July to invite you to contribute to the process. At these events, we will be introducing the opportunity, prioritising where we should be targeting EU funding and starting to talk about potential projects.
The morning events in both locations are primarily targeted at an audience of stakeholders with a particular interest in the business support, innovation and low carbon agenda.
In the afternoons, we are focusing more on organisations with an interest in the skills, employment and social inclusion agenda. However, to ensure a rounded debate, each event will have the opportunity to explore all of the EU funding thematic objectives, so delegates will not be disadvantaged if they cannot attend their first choice session.
Events will be held on the following dates and you can book online by following the relevant link:
Monday 22nd July, 9.30am – 12.30pm at the Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 1JD
https://eufundsconsultationthetfordam.eventbrite.co.uk
Monday 22nd July, 2pm – 5pm at the Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 1JD
https://eufundsconsultationthetfordpm.eventbrite.co.uk
Friday 26th July, 9.30am – 12.30pm at West Suffolk House, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3YU
https://eufundsconsultationburyam.eventbrite.co.uk
Friday 26th July, 2pm – 5pm at West Suffolk House, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3YU
https://eufundsconsultationburypm.eventbrite.co.uk
Places at each event are limited and booking will be processed on a first come first served basis, so please do register as soon as you can.
Visit https://www.newanglia.co.uk/Activities/European-Investment-Strategy to find out more about the EU funding programmes and the thematic priorities that will be the focus of discussion at the events.
If you cannot make an event there is also a consultation online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FG3K6FW
We are a team of highly experienced and qualified HR Consultants and our mission is to help your business realise its full potential by supporting you in managing your people and ensuring they’re the best they can be!
Ignite will get to know you and your business and will tailor HR solutions to support your business needs.
Contact us to arrange your free Health Check: sarah@ignitepeoplesolutions.co.uk
10% off for Chamber Members – enter discount code NCOM24032016 at checkout to get 10% off the published cost
Affinity is running a content marketing training seminar that comprises of two modules. Those attending the seminar can choose to attend either the morning, module 1 training; the afternoon, module 2 training; or both on the same day.
Module 1:
If you are new or only have a little experience with content marketing this is an ideal introduction into this area of digital marketing. This module provides all the basics you need to get you started with your content marketing.
Specifically designed with business owners and marketing professionals in mind, this training seminar provides an overview of what content marketing is, how it evolved and where the industry thinks it is heading. It also covers how content marketing is used to help promote businesses and increase revenue. Along with providing information and case studies on content marketing best practice, it will also include examples of what not to do.
It also includes a take away seminar pack that will ensure attendees have all the relevant information covered in the module.Those attending both modules on the same day will have a one hour lunch break between the modules in which catering will be supplied.
What this module covers:
What you will gain:
Module 2:
Want to build on your content marketing knowledge and take it to the next level? Then this is the training seminar module for you. Module 2 takes a more in-depth look at content marketing, focusing on how to create and implement a content strategy that will work for your business.
This module has been designed to help business owners and marketing professionals to fully utilise content marketing within their business. It covers creating content strategies, how to create content that engages your target audience, how to choose the right type of content marketing for your business, how to use content marketing to reinforce your brand, how to drive more traffic to your website through content, and how to analyse and measure results.
It also includes a take away seminar pack that will ensure attendees have all the relevant information covered in the module.Refreshments will be provided during the seminar and you will also be provided with a takeaway guide to content marketing.
What this module covers
What you will gain
Module One: £99+VAT per delegate Module Two: £99+VAT per delegateBoth Modules Together: £179+VAT per delegate