Norfolk Chamber HR Forums are designed to inform and keep your business up-to-date with all the changes to employment law.
Preventing discrimination in the workplace
Seven years on from the Equality Act 2010, the employment law team from Steeles Law will look at how the law has developed in this area, providing practical tips for ensuring equality and diversity in the workplace and avoiding costly claims in this sensitive area of HR management. The session will also cover essential recent and forthcoming developments in employment law including: Brexit’s impact on employment law – what we know so far; and a round-up of case law developments. Speakers will be: Oliver Brabbins: Director and Head of Employment Robert Hickford: Associate Solicitor
Who should attend the HR Forum?
Delegates from all sectors of industry including:
HR specialists
Employment relations specialists
Employee representatives
MDs/CEOs
Owners of small and medium sized businesses
Testimonials
“I really enjoy the forums and learn a lot from them.” – Linda Holt, Blue Sky Professional Development
“Really useful; they take a difficult subject and explain them clearly” – Rachel Harrison, The Forum Trust
Norfolk Chamber members and guests are invited to top-off the season at our late summer barbeque.
Kindly hosted by Chamber Gold Patron, MIGSOLV, this FREE event will give everyone a chance to relax while catching up and making new contacts across the Norfolk Chamber network.
The evening event is being held by MIGSOLV in the grounds of their impressive data centre in Bowthorpe, Norwich.
There’s ample free parking, traditional BBQ favourites, a free bar and optional guided tours of the East of England’s only purpose-built data centre.
An optional guided tour
Discover how a world-class data centre houses and protects business’s critical IT and data. Join the MIGSOLV team for a guided tour of the facilities, including its high-tech security, climatically controlled data halls, links to global networks and enough power generation for 8 days off-grid.
Originally purpose built by Norwich Union; MIGSOLV invested £12M turning The Gatehouse data centre in Norwich into a world class facility.
‘Colocation’ is renting space in a data centre to house your business’s own IT and data. It is then protected from threats including terrorism, extreme weather and power failures and theft; and remains accessible whatever happens. Colocation helps businesses improve their business continuity, save space, increase their IT’s reliability and plan for disaster recovery.
MIGSOLV holds IT for organisations ranging from local small businesses to multi-national companies, with every byte receiving the same world-class protection
Norfolk Chamber has created a new forum where senior business leaders have an opportunity to meet other key influencers to discuss and share experiences and opinions on a quarterly basis.
Hear from our guestspeaker Ian Watson, Chief Executive of Start-rite, the first boss from outside the founding family will be speaking at about the brand journey to modernise the oldest British shoe manufacturer. This 225-year-old business, which carries a royal seal of approval, is a household brand that now needs to evolve to compete in an exploding industry, driven by technology and design innovation. Ian comes from a background of running private equity-owned brands and has recently located from Germany.
‘The 1896 Club’ named after the date of incorporation of Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, is an exclusive gathering for Norfolk business leaders with over 50 employees.
The event will be hosted by our President Jonathan Cage, Managing Director, Create Consulting. There will be plenty of time to network with peers over breakfast and a lively debate on the challenges that large businesses face in Norfolk.
Invitation ONLY
This event is invite only to managing director or CEO level above membership rate with 50+ employees. To check if your business qualifies or if you would like to upgrade your membership please contact Jason Williams, Business Manager on 01603 729704 or email jason.williams@norfolkchamber.co.uk
Join us for a morning of business networking over a delicious breakfast. Make new contacts and catch up with existing ones.
Hear from guest speaker, Michelle Gant from the engaging people company. Michelle will be giving you some handy wellbeing tips for the new year.
Popular networking activities aimed at helping you meet new businesses
Breakfast – healthy options available upon request
Interesting presentation from a guest speaker
This breakfast event is perfect for businesses looking to broaden their network contacts.
Book a stand Interested in taking an exhibition stand at a business breakfast? The stand package is £75+VAT and includes your event ticket. Email us
About Michelle:
Michelle Gant runs The Engaging People Company, which offers engagement, communications, workplace wellbeing, facilitation and coaching, Through her work, Michelle is truly committed to supporting companies to deliver people satisfaction – as this has a direct correlation to business success. Michelle has an extensive background in communications and engagement and was previously Director of Engagement in the not-for-profit sector. She is a qualified and experienced coach and mentor, and a facilitator, empowering individuals and teams to find their own solutions.
Turning strategy into action – What does your business need to grow? Join us to help shape the delivery plans for the new Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk. The strategy identifies the key themes and opportunities for the region’s businesses and now we need you to help us create the delivery plans. You’ll have a chance to tell us what activity is already under way in your business and what you have planned for the coming years.
We’re also holding other roundtable discussions in the following areas:
This event is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list please email hello@norfolkchamber.co.uk, or you can still register for the Great Yarmouth event.
Spaces are now limited for the quiz please email events@norfolkchamber.co.uk for bookings. Join us for an evening of informal networking as we challenge you with a test of your knowledge through our Pub Quiz. With a history, music and celebrity round, there’s something for everyone at this fun filled networking event. Be in with a chance to beat the teams already booked such as Create Consulting Engineers Ltd, Tiger Eye Consulting Ltd, Aston Shaw and GGS? Book a team of 6 for £120 + VAT or join a mixed team for £20 + VAT per person Book now for the chance to be crowned Norfolk Chamber’s Quiz Night Champions! Who says you can’t mix business with pleasure? This Evening wil include:
Our next West Norfolk Business Breakfast will take you to unique West Norfolk venue, The Minster on the Saturday Market Place, for a morning of relationship building amongst the business community of Norfolk. There will be networking activities and a freshly prepared breakfast, and a short presentation from Vicky Etheridge of Discover King’s Lynn – speaking about the work of the BID organisation and the upcoming King’s Lynn Business Week, together with an update on the current fundraising and improvement work taking place at The Minster.
As we continue to grow our presence in West Norfolk since our re-launch in the Spring, we will help you grow your business at this breakfast by giving you the chance to build relationships new and old.
Book a stand
Interested in taking an exhibition stand at a business breakfast and showcasing the work your business is doing? The stand package is £75+VAT and includes your event ticket Email us
Sponsor this event
Want more exposure for your business? Sponsoring an event puts your business in front of around 50 delegates with in-depth information about your business. Sole sponsorship is £550+VAT. More information here
PLEASE NOTE: We have had a change in timing from our usual events. This is due to a service taking place elsewhere within King’s Lynn Minster. Arrival and networking will be from 08:30am with the event starting at 09:00am.
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce are holding a focus group formicro-small rural based businesses (with under 50 employees) to discuss implications of power cuts or failures on their business,in partnership with UK Power Networks.The focus group will take place in Norwich, UK Power Networks willprovide a presentation, followed by discussions and a Q&A session.
The focus group will explore small businesses reliance on electricity, resilience to power cuts, their concerns, the potential impact of power cuts and how business could be supported.
Since 2010, UK Power Networks have reduced the frequency of power cuts by 42% and the length of power cuts by 53%. Despite this, as part of UK Power Network’s stakeholder engagement programme they are seeking to understand more about the views of Small and Micro businesses (up to 50 employees) with regard to power cuts, their impact and the services that they provide.
As part of a broad programme of research UK Power Networks (UKPN) wants to understand how they can support you in the event of a power cut and what information you need. In particular, rural based small and micro businesses are a group UKPN has identified as having particular vulnerabilities, concerns and views around energy reliability and resilience that could be of relevance to UKPN’s planning and operations.
What’s in it for the businesses and why should they attend?
Influencing decisions, investment plans and services provided to the small/micro business sector
Being better informed about power cuts, business continuity and resilience planning
Helping protect their own business and support other businesses
Co-designing the power cut emergency pack
Being signposted to business support opportunities
Expenses covered
Aims of the Focus Group
To deepen UKPN’s understanding of business concerns and vulnerabilities
To inform a programme of wider business engagement activities
To support the development of new or improved services for SMEs
Following our hugely successful lunchtime networking event in April when we were joined by over 100 businesses, we’re back in West Norfolk for our next Business Breakfast this July. Catch up with other Norfolk Chamber members and make new connections while enjoying a full English breakfast.
This event is open to both Norfolk Chamber members and non-members so we can show West Norfolk businesses what the Chamber is all about.
We’re talking tourism
With summer fast approaching and festival season not long away, we’ll be focussing on tourism, heritage, arts and culture in West Norfolk.
Hear from Cllr Elizabeth Nockolds, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Culture, Heritage and Health at the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Elizabeth will explain the economic impact that tourism has on the region and outline the council’s involvement in promoting tourism and its investment in local festivals.
Want to gain more exposure for your business?
You can also showcase your business at the event by booking an exhibition stand from £75+VAT. For more details please email hello@norfolkchamber.co.uk or call 01603 625977.
On Friday 2nd October, over 60 members from Norfolk and Cambridgeshire Chambers came together for our business breakfast event. We were delighted to be at the King’s Lynn Arts Centre, who welcomed us with a delicious breakfast buffet and one of their latest art exhibitions displayed in the light, bright Shakespeare Barn.
Heather Garrod, President of the West Norfolk Chamber Council, was our host for the event. She welcomed Group Captain Richard Davies, newly appointed Station Commander, to share with the local business community the latest developments at RAF Marham. As this was his first Norfolk Chamber event, he joked that it was ‘slightly odd but enjoyable…rather different to sitting in front of a Tornado!’
Nevertheless, he quickly got down to business with his discussion of £300m investment at the RAF base which in turn will generate more local contracts. The investment will start next year and includes building three hangers for new aircrafts, resurfacing the runway and some new helipads for the ‘hovers’ from further across East Anglia to use.
‘We will be the first F35 base [and] this plane is the future of the RAF’, said Richard, clearly showing why he is confident that Marham has significant growth ahead. Becoming an F35 base will bring 24.5 thousand jobs to the UK. ‘Our 10 thousand size force at Marham will stay at a constant level, with the tornado force starting to drop steadily, being back-filled with F35 forces’ explained Richard.
This investment will also lead to significant new contracts for local businesses, mainly in the construction industry. Richard highlighted that the Defence Infrastructure Organisation are aiming to issue these contracts before the end of the year, for work to commence in 2016, which also marks Marham’s 100 year anniversary.
Finally, Richard made a call to action for local business support to help him keep his talented young people in our region. If there are more opportunities for them to get involved in the local community, such as local charities or youth groups, then this is likely to encourage them to stay in Norfolk.
The event also included an RAF themed networking activity which caused some healthy debate amongst the tables. Delegates enjoyed the breakfast, with a selection of hot and cold foods enjoyed, plus that all important morning coffee!
Our Your Future careers event in Attleborough will be on 23February 2016.
We are currently working with the school to develop the plan for the day, but it is likely to include the following activities:
Speed networking: bringing the Chamber’s expertise at business networking directly into schools. Small groups of students will have 3 mins with each business person, and rotate around the room until they have met each business! We will be encouraging students to break the ice by guessing the person’s job, and then give them an opportunity to ask more detailed questions.
Workshops: these sessions will show how curriculum subjects can lead to a variety of different career paths.
Sign up to the ‘Find an Apprenticeship’ website to help students find these opportunities.
Please click hereto sign your business up to help us deliver these activities.
Join Norfolk Chamber for a new event series in King’s Lynn that delivers expert led training sessions by Norfolk Chamber members. Start your morning with 30 minutes of networking over coffee and pastries, followed by a free 60 minute training seminar to boost your business performance.
Free to attend. Open to Norfolk Chamber members and non-members for a limited time.
If you’re frustrated that your networking isn’t providing you with enough opportunities to have meaningful sales conversations and you want more people to understand and experience the sheer brilliance of what your company offers, then this session with Matt Sykes, Salescadence is for you.
About Matt
Matt Sykes is the Founder of Salescadence, a training company that works with clients to understand and address the logical reasons why people don’t buy from them. He is the author of ‘Sales Glue’- a book that Matt describes as the original self-help book for Sales Professionals.
Prior to ‘making himself redundant’ in 2014 from a successful twenty-year corporate career, Matt developed a wealth of sales knowledge and experience from his role as European Sales Director for a leading global Packaging company. What makes Salescadence unique is training that combines the creativity and agility of the SME business life with the logical, process-driven strategy from the corporate world. This session was originally scheduled to take place on 21 June, but has now been rescheduled to 25 July