The Maids Head went back to 1549 and Kett’s Rebellion to mark Norfolk Day on Saturday 27 July and raised £89 in donations from guests for the hotel’s charity of the year, Break.
In the morning, Rob Knee from the Paston Heritage Society, dressed as Tudor courtier, Sir Thomas Paston gave a full account, in the Oak Room, of Sir Thomas’ response to Kett’s Rebellion in Norwich during the summer of 1549.
This was followed in the afternoon by a Shardlake’s Norwich tour led by Maids Head tour guide, Paul Dickson, dressed as Matthew Shardlake. The tour celebrates CJ Sansom’s best-selling novel, Tombland and looks at Norwich at the time of Kett’s Rebellion.
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The Flagship Group have kindly sponsored a 24 Hour Boxathon.
The event will promote the benefits of exercise and boxing to mental well being.
Staff from Gasway started warming up for a 24 Hour Boxathon to be held at Redwell Brewery on Norfolk day, July 27th. Volunteers from Gasway will be taking part on the day as teams plan to box through the night and deliver a knock-out blow to the stigma surrounding mental health.
It has been organised by Sharon Plummer, a personal trainer, along with Norfolk Day ambassador Charlie Hodson. Ms Plummer said “People can come along to watch or to speak to us, we would love to use the event as a way of saying to people ‘if you’re struggling then you can come in and talk to us’.
Friend In Deed would like to invite you to their Norfolk Day Picnic and Party on Saturday 27th July 2.30-5pm.
With plenty of free entertainment, come and celebrate Norfolk Day by showing off the kindness and intergenerational friendships that our county boasts.
Bring along your picnic items and a blanket, there will also be some seating available and shaded areas, especially for our older friends. Bring your babies, children, grandparents, neighbours and friends. Enjoy free entertainment from Sam the Magic Man, Norfolk Wild Encounters, Ami Bondi, Rugby tots, garden games and more.
Norwich School are also giving us access to two of their car parks but please note the parking will only be available between 2.15pm and 5.15pm and is strictly for those attending the event.
A massive thank you to their corporate sponsors Black Swan Care Group, M+A Partners and Flagship Group for helping us bring the community together on Norfolk Day!
The event will be taking place at Norwich School playing fields, 71a The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DD
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership are looking for volunteers who would be willing to be filmed as part of a new Norwich Opportunity Area project aiming to raise aspirations. Can you help?
We are planning two filming days in Norwich on Wednesday 14th August & Tuesday 20th August with the intention that the filming team visit various Norwich based employers for about an hour to film 10-15 people each.
We are looking to create short film clips of careers stories from 100s of people across Norwich from all sorts of different backgrounds/ages/journeys. The aim of the project is to create an online mosaic of local stories to raise awareness of different types of careers and opportunities available in Norwich from a range of sectors. We would ideally be looking to use a quiet meeting space or breakout area for the filming.
Questions will be along the lines of … What were your career aspirations as a child? How does that differ from what you do now? Without using your job title, can you describe what you do? Looking back, what do you wish you knew before choosing a career? Please confirm to Katie White – katie.white@newanglia.co.uk – whether you are interested by the end of the week. And if so, whether you have a preference for either of these dates?
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We recently held a design a safety poster competition for our employees relatives in two age categories, under 8’s and 8-12 years. We have chosen two posters as the winners thanks to Amber and Kristianna! One poster focused on the hazards an engineer might face during their work in the hangar, whilst the other focused on the common PPE needed to control some of these hazards. The two girls came to collect their prizes and enjoyed a tour around the facility to see where their relatives work. These posters will proudly be displayed at our facility! #safety #health #klmuke #engineers #maintenance #apprenticeships #drawing #posters #careers #skilled #Norwich #Norfolk #families #workingsafely #training #MRO #inspiration #futureengineers #futuregeneration #engineer #design #competition
A local teddy bear is making waves in literary circles – and with young families – thanks to his debut novel.
Eddie Teddie has been a fixture at Face to Face Finance, a local firm of independent financial advisers, for a number of years. He has his own section on their blog as well as his own social media channels. Business owner, Julie Hunt, explains more:
“We believe the younger that people start to understand and take responsibility for their money, the better for their long-term financial security. Eddie Teddie is the perfect avenue for helping parents and carer to gently teach their children about money. We’ve had a great response to his articles and wanted to extend that through his book.”
Eddie Teddie’s Big Summer of Savingis aimed at children from age five to eight and is a fun story with a gentle message about the importance of saving up for things you really want. It features Eddie, along with some of his friends. Face to Face Finance is giving a copy to their clients – although some have already come back to buy more! Alternatively, you can buy directly from Face to Face Finance. Julie continues:
“When people buy from us directly, we’re giving them the option to buy a second copy at a discounted rate, with the spare copy being gifted to a disadvantaged child. We’re also setting aside a proportion of all profits to buy Medibears for the Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
The book was created partly as a fun aside, but we hope to do some good as a result. The dream is to get the book into local schools.”
Eddie’s book was officially launched at the Great Ellingham Teddy Bear Festival. He’s since been spreading the word with Julie amongst local businesses and will be making more personal appearances, with signed copies available, in the coming weeks.
The book was written, designed and printed with the help of local marketing agency, Example Marketing and Web Design.
To buy a copy of the book, please email info@ftof-finance.co.uk. Eddie’s book will soon also be available to buy on Amazon.
The whole team at Tudor Lodge Consultants is thrilled to announce that we are now working with Business Reviewed, the new way for businesses to discover and explore related services for their business.
Business Reviewed are changing the way in which business services and products are discovered and dealt with. Traditionally, to find business services like accountancy software, business bank accounts, merchant services for retail premises, businesses would undertake what was a very manual research process. Whilst comparison sites certainly exist for the likes of insurance and other consumer financial products, businesses are often left behind.
This is something that the team at Business Reviewed are working to change.
What We Are Doing
Crawling Factors – Working through the site, we are working to ensure that every page of the Business Reviewed website and all content on the site are crawled [read and understood] by search engines. This has entailed us working on the meta data, on page titles and image tags (alt-texts) to help search engines understand what is on the site and what it all means in the context of search engine rankings.
User-Friendly Factors – In this day and age, user experience and user intent are everything. Hence, it has been one of the priorities to ensure the site is geared up for users to understand the purpose of all of the content on the site and be led to a point of becoming a lead. The Business Reviewed website has taken the specific intent of business owners and decision makers into account throughout the design process.
Content and Information – One of the key factors in SEO is the content and its ability to be read and understood by both readers and search engines. There is a fine line to tread to ensure the content does not become too technical to satisfy search engines, nor too conversational to only satisfy users. Maintaining this fine balance will always be at the forefront of the Business Reviewed website
When we first went to meet the team at Harrogate Ladies College they made it clear that they wanted a different kind of school film, one that told their story and that incorporated their ideal of ‘I am me’, encouraging their students to be very much individuals. We love to tell stories and this was a great fit for us with our background, so after brain storming as a team we went back to them with the concept of using a poem to take the viewer on a journey. They loved the idea and having won the pitch, we then spent some time getting to know the school and devising the poem with the marketing team there, before carefully planning the shoot. After time in the edit suite, here is the final result. Thank you to everyone involved.
Liftshare have been chosen to be part of the influential new cohort of Intelligent Mobility companies that will help shape future innovations in transport and mobility.
Based in Milton Keynes, the IM Accelerator is a partnership between Connected Places Catapult and Wayra UK, the world-leading scale-up accelerator that is part of Telefónica Open Future. The program is also supported by Hyundai, Stagecoach Group and Ferrovial Services, which will all provide support to start-ups at the Accelerator.
Chosen because of their continued investment in innovation and market-led new products, Liftshare have big plans for the coming year and the new technology they are developing.
Liftshare CEO and founder, Ali Clabburn, said, “We’re very excited to be a part of the Intelligent Mobility accelerator programme and to be working with Wayra and Catapult Connected Places. Liftshare are incredibly proud to still be considered innovators, even after 20 years, as what we do is more relevant today than ever. We’re looking forward to learning as much as we can, both from the supporters and mentors, but also the other companies involved who are doing incredibly exciting things in the mobility sector.”
Alex Weedon, Connected Places Catapult’s SME director, said, “We are very excited to welcome such a diverse group of promising businesses to the IM Accelerator. We had a large number of quality applications which allowed our judges to choose a group that really represents the scope and ambition of the thriving SME and start-up community currently working in transport in the UK.”
Liftshare is the biggest carsharing network in the UK with over 600,000 members sharing 1 million trips every month. They help over 700 corporate clients to encourage staff to travel more sustainably using a suite of products. Having recently won their second Queen’s Award for Innovation for what judges called, “exceptional contributions to the environment,” Liftshare are on track to have saved over 1 billion miles from UK roads by 2020.
Notes to editors Queen’s Award for Innovation | BITC National Award for Environmental Excellence | Ashden Award for Sustainable Travel | Catalyst Award for Social Technology | British Parking Awards Further information about Liftshare and its services for individuals and businesses can be found at https://business.liftshare.com
Contact For additional information and images, please contact simon@liftshare.com, tel. 01603 389 321.
Norwich Puppet Theatre is delighted to announce that we have secured £14,950 from Arts Council England Lottery Funding for a new Puppetry Project.
To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we will reimagine our 2014 in-house spectacular ‘Beauty & The Beast for national touring 2020. This is a really interesting twist on the story about young people and the pressures of self image they face…think “beauty” and “beastliness”!
I promise you it will be fantastically engaging and entertaining as well!
NPT is committed to ensuring everyone can access great Puppetry experiences – this project focuses on extending our reach into rural areas & engaging with disadvantaged communities by working closely with rural touring schemes. We will embedaccess & inclusion into our creative & production processes from the beginning, to grow ways audiences with hearing, visual and other impairments can interact with our work. And there is an exciting new relationship with University of East Anglia in a a Writing for Puppetry strand.
We need to raise a further £4,000 from additional sources to unlock this ACE money so we are inviting Norfolk companies to grab a slice of the action, and sponsor our show.
There are great opportunities to demonstrate your brand and corporate social responsibility values to our audiences.
Various packages are available: just contact Ian Woods, General Manager on 01603 615564 or info@puppettheatre.co.uk. Of course, we have full programme of fun for the family through the summer holidays with Workshop Wednesday and Family Fridays. We have several shows programmed through the season. Why not take a look at https://www.puppettheatre.co.uk/whats-on Thank you Nic Hopkins, Chair of Trustees