Want to make social media work for your business? Our half-day training workshop will give you the knowledge and tools you need to maximise your social media efforts.
From the simple basics of Facebook and Twitter through to the more advanced stages of monitoring and insight, we’ll show you how social media works, why it’s so successful and what you can do to harness it, exploit it – and enjoy it. Social media can be complex but it is also one of the most exciting, mobile and inclusive areas of digital communications.
You will learn
How to use Twitter to promote your business.
Gain more engagement using Linkedin.
How to use Facebook to target ideal customers
No online marketing experience is needed and technical jargon will only be used where essential and will be fully explained.
Book onto our training and let us help you realise the enormous potential social media can offer your business.
About Jonathan White
The training is delivered by Jonathan White, Managing Director of Desire Marketing. Jonathan has many years experience working in the online arena having previously been Online Sales Director for DHL Express and Lead Consultant for the initiation and development of myhermes.co.uk.
“How to promote, boost and advertise across all social media platforms”
Quiz some of Britain’s top business brains about the issuesthat really matter to you. Learn how these entrepreneurs have grown their businessesinto some of the best-known brands in the UK today:
Sir Charles Dunstone, founder of Carphone Warehouse and Chairman of TalkTalk
Anya Hindmarch, founder of Anya Hindmarch
Tom Pellereau, Series 7 The Apprentice winner and inventor of Stylfile and the Nipper Clipper
Kanya King MBE, founder of the MOBO awards
Ali Clabburn, founder of liftshare.com.
Norfolk Business Library and The Forum will be screening this event live for free in The Curve. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity fornetworking, and light refreshments will be served.
Hear from the founders of the food sector’s tastiest business success stories.
Join us at the Forum’s Auditorium for a live screening of this fantastic event taking place at the British Library in London. Hear from the names behind some of the UK’s most successful food and drink brands, including Praveen Vijn, co-founder of Eat Natural, Guy Singh-Watson, founder of Riverford, Pip Murray, founder of Pip & Nut and Nadia Stokes, founder of Gourmet Goat as they share stories on how they grew brands from their kitchen tables. Learn how they got their products onto the supermarket shelves, developed a memorable brand and built a place for themselves in the hearts, minds and stomachs of a nation.
The UK’s food and drinks sector is going from strength to strength. Developments in street food and markets, pop-up catering, hospitality and myriad innovative new product launches and trends all contribute to our growing reputation as a nation of foodies.
In 2017, consumer spending in the sector exceeded £219 billion with food and drinks exports worth more than £22 million to the economy. With almost 7,000 micro, small and medium businesses active in the sector last year, there’s certainly no shortage of new brands eager to take a bite out of the market.
If you’re a small business owner in the food sector with big ambitions to take a piece of a profitable pie, don’t miss this opportunity to quiz our panel of foodie experts.
Before this live screening you will have the opportunity to network with fellow foodies while enjoying refreshments. We will also be joined by Richard Bainbridge, chef patron of successful local restaurant, Benedicts. Richard will be sharing insights on how to successfully start and run a business in the food sector.
5:45pm – Networking with tea, coffee and biscuits.
6:15pm – How the Business and IP Centre Norfolk can help support you and your business.
6:25pm – Richard Bainbridge, Chef patron of Benedicts restaurant.
Richard, originally from Norwich has travelled and worked his way through some of the most amazing Restaurants and countries across the globe. He has worked for Michel Roux Senior at the 3 Michelin Starred Waterside Inn, for Günter Seeger (NY), Kevin Thornton (Dublin) and upon his return to Norfolk he was head chef at Galton Blackiston’s Morston Hall.
Richard opened Benedicts with his wife Katja in June 2015. Since opening, Benedicts has been named in The Times Top 100 Restaurants in the UK, Square Meal Top 100 and EDP Norfolk’s Best Restaurant, alongside a rating of 6 in the Good Food Guide. Benedicts was awarded 3 AA Rosettes in January 2018.
In 2015 he won BBC 2’s Great British Menu and returned in 2017 as a Veteran Judge on the program judging the chefs of the central region. He writes a monthly food column in the Eastern Daily Press and has his own monthly slot on Radio Norfolk on the Chrissie Jackson Show.
7-8:30pm – Screening of Recipes for Success, broadcast live from the British Library.
This event is organised by the Business & IP Centre Norfolk and takes place in the Auditorium within the Forum.
Join us for lunchtime networking at The Beechwood Hotel on Wednesday 17th July from 12.30 – 2.00pm. The North Walsham Business Lunch is a successful dining club for local businesses, bringing local business professionals together to network at one of the leading country house hotels in North Norfolk. New price! Reduced price of £15.00 for 2 courses To book your place or for more information, please contact Andrea Smith on: 01603 693575 | marketing@clapham-collinge.co.uk Booking is essential. Please make payment to Beechwood Hotel on the day (Cheques should be made payable to Starwarz Ltd)
Free meeting for small business owners – 12th July in Hellesdon, Norwich. Great chance to meet fellow small business owners, all supporting each other and sharing best practise, in a relaxed meeting with no sales pitches. Free to attend with no need to book, just turn up – we start at 8am and will finish by 10. This month we’re looking at best practice for quotations and bidding for work, plus our usual packed agenda focusing on both good and bad real life examples. Carrowbreck House, Carrowbreck Road, Norwich NR6 5FA https://businessgrowthclub.net/up-and-coming-events/
Another chance to get together with like-minded small business owners and share ideas and knowledge, looking at best practice and mutual co-operation. We will cover specific sales and marketing topics, in a friendly supportive environment. I can promise a packed agenda which will stimulate! Free tea and coffee, with no need to book, just turn up. If you want to know more drop me a line or give me a call on 01603 443355
Join our HR Consultants as they address the difficult topic of disciplinary and grievance investigation. Timings:7.45 am Registration and buffet breakfast 8.00 am Presentations 9.00 am Questions and answers 9.15 am Close
Location: Carrowbreck House, 7 Carrowbreck Road, Norwich, NR6 5FA. Having a website for your business isn’t a choice anymore, without one you lose credibility as well as opportunities. This brand new course shows you how to set up and maintain a website for free using WordPress, the most popular blogging and content management system on the web. What if you don’t know how to code? That’s ok because code isn’t needed. Course Content Setting up and installing WordPress Selecting a theme ( look ) for your website Front end and back end Your dashboard Adding extras to your website Inserting images and videos Adding pages Creating a blog Linking to other sites Security Managing users Who should attend? If you’re looking to create a website If you’re looking to create a landing page Understand WordPress more Manage your own WordPress website Suitable for business owners and anyone looking to create an online presence Duration: Half-day course (1.30pm – 4.30pm) Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available. Lunch provided: Light Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course. Course price: From £38.50 to £49.50 For more details or any enquiries, please do contact us on 01603 788950, or email carrowbreck@broadland.gov.uk
New Anglia LEP is working with Government to develop a Local Industrial Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk. The objective of this work is to identify the actions we need to take to support businesses to grow and make the most of the business opportunities, particularly in energy, ICT and Digital and Agri Food, which are real strengths of our region.
We are holding a number of business and stakeholder engagement events over the next couple of months to help develop the actions and investments which are needed.
This is your opportunity to ensure we take the right actions to create the environment for your business to grow. The event is aimed for businesses and academia.
This event will be focused on the Government’s Grand Challenge: Clean Growth
Our overall goal is to transform our economy into one of the best places in the world to live, learn, work and do business. We have set out a clear vision, priorities and targets in the Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy – our blueprint for inclusive growth and productivity. You can find further details about the Local Industrial Strategy on our website.
Aim; This is the benchmark trainer skills qualification for all trainers, it is ideal for first-time trainers who need to understand the basics of training skills and practice or those looking to refine their techniques.
Objectives;
*Identify training needs and set appropriate aims and objectives.
*Understand and deploy appropriate training and learning approaches
*Be able to comprehensively plan your training
*Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions that engage, motivate and inspire learners
*Understand the use of different assessment methods and the need for record keeping
Organisation
Duration; 3 day programme
Exam/Assessment; Delegates are required to deliver a 30 minute “micro-teaching” session (which must be part of a wider programme) to the rest of the group, provide feedback to four other delegates and complete a self evaluation.
Cost; £435 plus VAT includes notes, refreshments, lunch, the assessment & certification fees
Awarding Body; Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
Tutor; Richard Mills and Sarah Daniels
Differentiation; At least level 2 or equivalent in English, ICT skills would be advantageous.
Audience; Anyone who wants to deliver training professionally
Feedback; “I just wanted to say thanks for the course, I’ve spent 37 years trying to overcome my abject fear of standing up in front of people, and I’ve been on countless courses which have helped, but not cured the problem, yet in 3 days you managed to solve it completely!” Rachel Jarman, Hautbois
Are you ready to party like it’s 1969?! We will be having the ultimate disco filled with confetti cannons and a whole lot of glitter! Prepare yourselves for Pop, Rnb, Indie, Dance Classics to sing a long belters, extravagant cabaret and dancers make take over the big stage and strut down the catwalk, flamboyant aerial hoop performances and vivacious drag. What you can expect: Party with balloons, confetti cannons & more… Absolut cocktail bar Street food Aerial hoop performances Catwalk Local & worldwide talent including including Peppermint from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9!! Plus expect an amazing show from:
Guilty Pleasures – DJ Collective
Danny Beard
Lou Safire
The Squirrels
Black Shucks Fever’s RhyssPieces and Harley D
House of Daze
Jezza King
It’s time to bring your rainbows and get your glitter on! We are incredibly happy to be able to be involved in such a worthy cause. An invitation for everyone to celebrate and support the LGBT+ movement!
If you’re a tourism, leisure or hospitality business and would like to see the results of the Tourism and Leisure Business Survey, please join us at one of our exclusive launch events.
Our speakers will share their insights from the results of the survey and discuss the issues affecting the sector.
When and where? 22 May 2019 Barnham Broom, Honingham Road, Norwich NR9 4DD Agenda 1.30pm Registration and networking – tea, coffee and canapes 2.00pm Presentations commence 3.00pm Break with light refreshments 3.30pm Presentations recommence 5.00pm Presentations finish.
Guests are invited to join us for networking and drinks