Let your hair down on Thursday 3rd November and join us at Revolution de Cuba for somedelicious tapas and informal business networking.
These relaxed networking sessions provide the perfect opportunity to chat freely amongst members,swap business contacts and increase your professional network.
#AfterHours #ChamberNetworking @norfolkchamber
This is a members only event. If you want to bring a non-member guest, there is a special rate of£32 + VAT for the two places.If you are a non-member and are interested in joining the Chamber or finding out more information please call01603 625977or emailmembership@norfolkchamber.co.uk A delegate list and agenda will be emailed to you two days prior to this event, please ensure you register early to feature on the published delegate list.
Bookings for this event are now closed. For availability, please emailevents@norfolkchamber.co.uk. Thank you.
Book now for free, informal evening networking at Bank House Hotel with a range of businesses from across West and North Norfolk.
West Norfolk Nites continues to show popularity with attendance of more than 30 different businesses at each event. Get your business name out there, create new contacts to benefit you and enjoy some relaxed, friendly networking.
An evening of drinks, canapes and networking, free of charge and open to all businesses.
This event is for businesses located in West Norfolk andNorth Norfolk. If your business is located out of these areas, please contact the events team before booking.
Lite Nites Networking is back as it continues to grow a network in West Norfolk: nowrenamed to West Norfolk Nites as the evenings bring Autumn sunsets to enjoy making those all-important connections to.
Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with Norfolk Chamber and Bank House Hotel, weprovide the arrival drinks and the canapes and you can take advantage of the excellent businesses networking opportunities.
This event is for businesses located in West Norfolk andNorth Norfolk. If your business is located out of these areas, please contact the events team before booking.
e-zCert is the way forward as far as export documentation is concerned and now that the system has been upgraded again, it’s never been easier.
Rather than having to post your documents to us or physically visiting our office, you can apply for your documents online!
This half day workshop will physically show you how to apply for your documents.
A laptop will be set up and the trainer will go through the process of applying for online documents step by step. All the main aspects will be covered including how to add and remove users.
Applications that will be looked at are:
EC Certificates of Origin
Arab Certificates of Origin
EUR1’s
ATR’s
Uploaded Documents
Hints and tips will be provided, showing how to speed up the application process!
Date:Wednesday 24th September 2014Venue: 9 Norwich Business Park, Whiting Road, Norwich NR4 6DJTime:2.00pm – 5.00pmPrice: Members £24+VAT, Non Members £30+VAT
Please Note – members will receive an invoice in the usual way. Non Members must pay in advance and will receive a receipted invoice by return.
Cancellation Policy – 15% of fee payable if delegates cancel more than 7 days in advance, if less than 7 days full fee payable
Do you want to learn how to maximise contribution and maximise return on your business? Carl Bates, global entrepreneur, speaker, author, mentor and director will present a one-off half-day workshop while visiting the UK for a week only!
This workshop is an outcomes-focused half-day event that aims to equip the attendee with a deeper understanding of the Contribution Compass and its eight natural energy profiles. It also provides the attendee with an interactive experience and practical insight into how to apply this tool to deepen team engagement, build effective teams and improve communication and organisational learning. In this way contribution can directly drive business performance. Executives, entrepreneurs and team members alike will learn how to apply this tool to maximise contribution – individually and collectively.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for business leaders and entrepreneurs who recognise the importance of an engagement team of people doing what they love and what they do best. It is also highly valuable for anyone who would like to learn more about working with their own profile while maximising their engagement with the other profiles. Entrepreneurs, executives, managers and directors will especially benefit through the emphasis on applying this tool in a practical manner and unlocking the full value of the natural energy profiles.
About the Company
The Sirdar Contribution Compass is a profiling tool that enables people to understand both their area of maximum contribution to a team, company or organisation and how they can leverage the most value for themselves and for their organisation. When there is a balance of natural energy around a board room table, in an executive or management group, or across the operational or frontline team, there is a much more effective flow, and in turn results, for the directors, team members and the business as a whole. A company that is focused on maximising its growth opportunities should commit to consciously understanding and bringing into balance the natural energies of its board, team and key functions.
About the presenter
Carl Bates is a global entrepreneur, speaker, author, mentor and director. Currently based in South Africa, he is a dynamic entrepreneur from New Zealand who guides small to medium businesses to achieve Extreme Business Success.
Workshop Outline
Maximising Contribution • Brief introductions • The purpose of maximising contribution and return
Natural Energy • The four natural energies: Applied in effective questioning, drivers of growth and learning styles • Exercise: Finding the lead of a story
Contribution Compass (CC) Profiles • Introduction to the eight profiles • Exercise: What happens when you are not in your flow? • Reflection and discussion
Building an Effective Team • The CC as a tool for team effectiveness: recruitment, selection and management
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest economy in the Arab world. It accounts for 25% of the Arab world’s GDP. The Kingdom possesses around 25% of the world’s oil reserves, and plays a leading role in Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Benefits for UK businesses exporting to Saudi Arabia include:
UK’s largest trading partner in the Middle East
growing diversification within Saudi economy
massive government investment in transport, infrastructure, healthcare, education and energy
common use of English in business
Strengths of the Saudi market include:
no taxation on personal income
proximity to other Gulf markets
key member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
largest economy and population in the Gulf region
Speaker Profiles
Chris is a former diplomat with wide experience of the Middle East & North Africa. He heads the UK Secretariat of the Saudi British Joint Business Council, a not for profit trade association with some 150 Saudi and British members which promotes business relations between the two countries.
Eisa is a Saudi Arab native, who has over 30 years experience in senior managerial roles in Saudi Arabia. He returned to the UK in 2004 and founded Project Facilitators & Services Company. PFSCO offers a wide range of consultancy services, this includes introducing British and EC businesses and technology providers to Saudi Arabia and neighbouring GCC countries.
Jeff has been helping businesses with their finances for over 35 years, during which time he has seen many of them grow into large successful international companies. He now runs a team of experienced Trade and Working Capital Specialists covering the East and South East England.
Japan is the world’s third largest economy in the world & it’s the high-tech powerhouse economy of Asia. The amount of personal wealth is high, and personal financial assets are one of the largest asset bases in the world. In 2014 £9.4 trillion in financial assets was held by households.
Around 450 British companies currently operate in Japan from major FTSE 100 companies to small businesses. Incentives for UK businesses exporting to Japan include:
stable place to do business
strategic stepping stone for other Asian markets
highly educated consumers who are early adopters of new products and services
large and rich consumer market based in urban areas
Tokyo conurbation is the world’s largest at around 35 million
Strengths of the Japanese market include:
a huge, open economy
an increasingly globalised outlook
strong intellectual property (IP) protection
hunger for new trends and technologies
high levels of disposable income, particularly older people and young singles living with their parents
Speaker Profiles
Daisaku Yukita is Deputy Director-General of Japan External Trade organization (JETRO) London office since July 2015. He is responsible for Invest Japan activities in Europe. He was Chief Deputy Director of Invest Japan Department and Deputy Director of Invest Japan Business Support Centre of JETRO Tokyo between 2009 and 2015.
Tom Bool is theDirector of Integro Languages which was launched in 2007 and has grown into a globally recognised provider of premium quality translation and language services. They specialise in growing companies internationally.
Shohei Yamaguchi is a Japanese native and head of the Asian Division at Integro Languages
Jeff has been helping businesses with their finances for over 35 years, during which time he has seen many of them grow into large successful international companies. He now runs a team of experienced Trade and Working Capital Specialists covering the East and South East England.
Registration for the webinar has now closed. To watch live at 1pm follow this link: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/528771885 If you are watching live please mute your microphone (if applicable) once the webinar begins.
If you can’t watch live but would like to see the webinar please email events@norfolkchamber.co.uk to be sent a link afterwards.
All members are invited to join us for a Maximise Your Membership webinar in their first three months, but are welcome to attend for a refresher at any time.
This FREE webinar offers members the opportunity to find out some of the many ways to make the most of your membership, whether this is through attending a networking event, entering the annual awards, ensuring you get the most out of our website or using the free and discounted products and services available as a Chamber member.
Attendees will hear from Jason Williams, Business Manager at Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
We are supporting Open Academy in Sprowston, Norwich on a Careers Fair on Tuesday 11 October and looking for businesses to take a stand to offer valuable careers advice to students.
The Careers Fair is for all of our students and their parents or carers from 2.00pm until 6pm. This could mean up to 600 students attending with parents or carers. The primary focus will be for students who are looking for post-16 options, or options beyond Year 12and 13. Starting at 2pm, with Year 10 & 11 students off time table to attend the event for one hour. After that, all other year groups and their parent and carers will be able to visit.
We wish to offer students the opportunity to view the wide range of educational opportunities, careers, employment and voluntary options available to them in and around Norfolk. We believe that your organisation’s presence at the event will support them in deciding which career path to embark upon, and in understanding the qualifications and skills they need in order to achieve that goal.
If you are able to bring along some items to exhibit or small activities to inspire the students that would be wonderful. Tables and chairs, and refreshments will be provided. Would you please let me know if you need power or have any other requirements.
Exclusive to Chamber of Commerce members – Christmas shopping evening with complimentary refreshments, prize draws and more.
After the sucess of the past couple of years, John Lewis Norwich are once againhosting an exclusive Christmas shopping evening for Norfolk Chamber members and their guests on Thursday 1stDecember. A special drinks reception will be held in the Place to Eat restaurant between 5.30-7pm, the shop will then remain open until 8pm – so plenty of time to do some Christmas shopping!
On the night there will be special activities and promotions to help you get into a festive mood, plus the stores gift guru’swill be on hand to assist you with your Christmas gift buying.
Here’s a taster of what’splanned for the evening;
From 5.30-7pm complimentary festive drinks and nibbles in the Place to Eat restaurant on the second floor.
Pick up someChristmas gift inspiration andfind out what this years ‘must have’ gifts are.
Mini make-over’s and beauty demonstrations
Christmas gift prize draw
Free parking in the John Lewis car park when entering after 5pm
Norfolk Chamber HR Forums are designed to inform and keep your business up-to-date with all the changes to employment law.
Our expert sponsors will provide you with an afternoon of in-depth knowledge essential to any business. Our upcoming HR Forum, sponsored and delivered by Howes Percival, will focus on pay discrimination in the work place. Employers will soon be required to publish a report setting out the gender pay gap within their organisation. A concern for employers is the risk that this will lead to an increase in employees pursuing claims for sex discrimination and equal pay.
This HR Forum will help you understand the law surrounding equal pay issues and the reporting requirements, including defences to equal pay claims, dealing with back pay and pay protection and handling an equal pay grievance. In addition, Howes Percival will review forthcoming legal reforms and recent case law decisions and identify how these developments will impact on local businesses.
Nicola Butterworth advises on all areas of employment law including day-to-day HR issues, employment status, whistleblowing, discrimination, change management and TUPE. Nicola has particular expertise in the defence of employment tribunal claims for which she undertakes her own advocacy. Client’s describe Nicola as ‘thorough and rigorous but concise and targeted’ and she is noted for her ‘very responsive, accurate and detailed knowledge of employment law’.
Graham Irons, Partner, Howes Percival:
Graham provides advice to clients in both the private and public sectors and has been recognised in the Legal 500 as someone who ‘inspires confidence’. Graham is a regular speaker at a range of events and has a reputation for delivering fun and practical seminars and training.
Start the year right with some New Year networking, at our next Great Yarmouth Business Breakfast on the 19th January, sponsored by Norfolk County Council
We lookat the topic of infrastructure in the local area, in particular the impact of the Third River Crossing project and updates to the town centre.
Tig Armstrong, Infrastructure and Economic Growth Mananger, and David Allfrey, Major Projects Manager, Norfolk County Council,will discuss the recentongoings with the Third River Crossing, covering:
The Borough’s master planning work
Highways England junction improvement
Dualling the A47
Sustainable transport improvements in the town
The impact of the Third River Crossingto traffic and businesses in the area
Timescales of the project
and David Glason, Group Manager: Growth, Great Yarmouth Council,will discuss the improvements to infrastructure happening in Great Yarmouth Town Centre
Book your place at this eventto have influence on upcoming infrastructure changes, and tonetwork with a wide range of local businessesover a delicious breakfast.This breakfast event is perfect for businesses in the area or looking to broaden their business network contacts.
Meetnew contacts and catching up with existing ones after the busy Christmas period