Co.Spark Round Table: Bright Sparks in Action Where Ideas Spark and Solutions Start
Got a business idea or a challenge you’re wrestling with? Join us for the very first Co.Spark Round Table: a relaxed, friendly session where you’ll get the chance to talk things through with our Bright Sparks.
These experienced business minds are here to listen, share their knowledge, and help you spot the opportunities that might be right in front of you. Whether you’re looking to take the next step with your idea, grow what you’ve already started, or just need a bit of clarity. This is your chance to tap into a wealth of real-world insight and guidance.
This isn’t a pitch. It’s a conversation. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your ambition.
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award offers a welcoming first step into the world of workplace wellbeing and safety. It is designed for anyone wishing to build a clear, confident understanding of how to look after themselves and others at work, or for those beginning a rewarding career in health and safety.
Rather than focusing on complex legal detail, this qualification gently introduces the key principles of health and safety. It explores everyday workplace hazards and guides you in recognising and managing them with care. It is ideal for supervisors, team leaders, facilities managers, and anyone who wants to contribute to a safer, more supportive working environment.
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award consists of one unit which must be successfully completed within six months to achieve the NEBOSH Health and Safety Award qualification.
Unit HSA1: Health and Safety at Work
Why and how you manage health and safety
Dealing with common workplace hazards
Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
Expert Response Training are offering a 1 Day regulated training course in Emergency First Aid at Work. The course is a Level 3 award and will be held at The Gallow, Fakenham Sports Center on the 18th August.
If you are interested in any other First Aid training from Outdoor First Aid to First Aid for Mental Health please get in touch.
Join us on our extended ‘recovery programme’ virtual events which support businesses to restart, rebuild and renew.
You might be the best at what you do, but if you’re not sharing your expertise by blogging about it, you’re missing out. Discover how to include the power of blogging in your marketing strategy and create a blog content calendar that will develop and share your expertise to build your reputation and increase your sales.
Content / Takeaway
In this Masterclass, Kathy and Emma will cover:
How blogs work as a marketing tool
How to discover who an audience is and what will they want to read about
What to write, when to write, how much to write and where to find inspiration to write
The importance of using images in a blog
How to create a blog content calendar
When you register for your place, you will be sent a calendar invitation as confirmation of your place. The invite will include a unique link from Zoom for you to join the video call.
Kathy Ennis is the founder of LittlePiggy. She is a Business Mentor and Trainer with over 20-years of business experience. She is an expert in helping micro and side-hustle businesses start-up and scale-up. Kathy is a trainer and an ambassador for the Facebook #SheMeansBusiness campaign, an Enterprise Nation Local Leader and co-founder of 24 Degrees.
Emma Goode is the founder and CEO of the award-winning digital marketing agency, 24 fingers. She works with business owners and third sector organisations to help them grow and develop through social media and online marketing. Emma is an active Local Leader for Enterprise Nation and co-founder of 24 Degrees.
LittlePiggy and 24 fingers (together we are 24 Degrees).
Bold & Brilliant Marketing Planning: Get confident, get visible, and get customers – by creating a marketing plan with me.
Chamber member? Get 20% off this course using the code: CHAMBER20
In this 3 hour interactive workshop you will create a marketing plan for your business.
Are you a small business
owner feeling overwhelmed with your marketing? Join this practical workshop and
come out with a written down marketing plan for your business for the next 12
months.
Perfect for start-ups with no
plan or existing businesses that need to refresh their plan. Be a goal setter
and a goal getter in this hands-on session! The workshop covers:
* Building
a sales and marketing funnel
* Identifying
your vision, mission, values and unique selling points
*Defining
your top 3 target audiences
*Marketing
tactics list and selection (choose the best tactics for your business)
*How to
create a marketing campaign for your business
*Setting
a marketing budget
*Measuring
your marketing
You will receive a marketing
strategy template and delegates will also receive a 30 min free marketing
consultation with Rechenda.
Since the pandemic and with low unemployment rates in the eastern region, businesses of all types are having trouble hiring. In this candidate-driven market and with job seekers undertaking their own research into prospective employers as part of their diligence, the war on talent is at its most fierce for decades.
Companies are having to work much harder to attract and secure the talent they need. Where do you start?
During this workshop, we will be exploring ways in which you can make your business stand out from the rest, to secure the talent needed to take your business to the next level and ensure your ongoing success. We will reveal how your employer branding affects your business and will share practical tips for building your reputation as an employment destination.
Charlotte Bate:
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, BA Hons Business and Personnel.
With over 15 years’ experience as an HR Professional, Trainer and Coach, Charlotte has supported Chief Executives, Board of Directors, Entrepreneurs, Business Professionals from global businesses to small family run businesses across a variety of industries by drawing on her wealth of HR expertise and commercial acumen.
In 2016, Charlotte joined as a Director at MAD-HR. MAD-HR stands for Make A Difference HR, which was formed to bring a new brand of HR to East Anglia. With offices in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex, together with their team they have grown the company into a Future 50 Class of 2019, a finalist in the Suffolk Business Awards 2018, a finalist in the SME National Business Awards for High Growth Business of the Year and judges shortlist for Norfolk Business Award and most recently in 2021, receiving the Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award.
MAD-HR
An award-winning HR Consultancy based supporting businesses across East Anglia with offices in Norwich, Ipswich, and Chelmsford. MAD-HR stands for ‘Make a Difference’ HR. Our philosophy is focused on providing premier, outsourced, flexible HR expertise to businesses regardless of their size, driven by great customer service. We can help your businesses thrive, succeed and flourish, keeping you fully in step with UK employment law. Plus, we’re really nice to work with.
NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation is a specialist health and safety qualification designed to give learners the confidence and practical skills to investigate workplace accidents and incidents effectively. This course teaches you how to identify root causes, develop risk control measures, and contribute to detailed team investigations for larger or more complex incidents.
Jointly developed by NEBOSH and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – the UK’s leading safety regulator – this highly respected qualification provides a strong foundation in incident investigation. It is ideal for managers, supervisors, HSE champions, union representatives, and those aspiring to become health and safety professionals.
By completing the NEBOSH Introduction to Incident Investigation course, learners gain the ability to reduce risks, improve workplace safety performance, and support a proactive safety culture.
Course Details
Education Level: Level 3 | Hours of Study: 1 day + Assessment | Tuition Period: 6 months
Course Content
The NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation consists of one unit, which must be successfully completed within six months to achieve the NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation. The course covers:
Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations Human and organisational factors Investigating accidents and incidents Positive strategies and the barriers to successful interviews Advanced accident/incident investigation techniques
Course Venue: Harford Community Centre, Hall Road, NRNR4 6ET.
This Ofqual regulated, HSE compliant qualification will
ensure all learners have the skills and knowledge to serve their organisation
as an Emergency First Aider, able to provide treatment to their casualties in a
prompt, safe and effective manner.
A range of subjects are covered including:
Responsibilities
and reporting
Assessment
of the situation
Dealing
with an unresponsive casualty
Basic
hygiene in First Aid
Resuscitation
and AED awareness
Minor
injuries
Bleeding
control
Burns
Choking
Epilepsy
Shock
The qualification is valid for three years and a certificate
will be awarded on completion. As the HSE recommends that learners also
undertake Annual Refresher training, this is included in the qualification. For
no extra cost, online Annual Refresher training will be sent to learners on the
first and second anniversary of their training date. A certificate will be
awarded on completion.
Run in partnership with SocialB, this practical online session will guide you through the key steps to running effective, low-budget paid campaigns on Facebook and Instagram.
Learn how to set up and structure your campaigns for success, make the most of Meta’s tools to save time, and create compelling ad visuals and copy that truly connect with your audience. You’ll also explore how to adapt your content across platforms, target and retarget local customers, and measure your results in a clear, simple way, without getting buried in analytics.
Perfect for businesses ready to boost their visibility, attract new customers, and make every pound count.
Meet the Trainer Amy Hobson, Digital Marketing & Social Media Trainer
I have worked with SocialB as a Social Media and Digital Marketing Training Partner since 2015. After completing my degrees at Keele University and the University of Birmingham I am very lucky to have had over 20 years varied experience working with many different industries. My expertise, however, is marketing and business development with a particular focus on franchising and retail.
I love training and my favourite part of any training course is seeing the “light bulb moments” when the delegates start to understand how digital marketing works and how they can apply it to their own business to really make a difference. Knowing that our delegates leave the course armed with the knowledge and a plan to make positive changes is very rewarding.
I am a mum of four active boys (and a Cavapoo) and am a keen walker.
My favourite quote is “Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket”. It reminds me that happiness comes from within and to be truly happy you have to love and respect yourself so you can take control of your own destiny.
Eligibility:
These small-group workshops are funded by Norfolk County Council and the Department for Business and Trade. They are open to any trading business, freelancer, or charity based in Norfolk, UK.
Due to funding restrictions, only one ticket per company is available initially. If a workshop is not fully booked, a second ticket may be requested the day before the event by contacting jo.barnard@newangliagrowthhub.co.uk
Across a series of carefully-selected 12 half-day modules we will provide practical and case study based exercises, so you can see how employment law is dealt with in the real world!
This course is aimed at HR professionals – each module will take a topic that is designed to provide delegates with working knowledge of employment law, in a way that you can use practically within your organisation.
July Co.next Lunch & Learn with Harry Harris, Business Coach and Mentor
Are you ready to level up on active listening, creative thinking, and collaboration? Join us this July for an energising Co.next workshop led by Action Spark’s Harry Harris – a proven expert in sparking connection and creativity at work.
What to expect:
Interactive, real-world exercises designed to sharpen communication skills and bring immediate impact
Practical tools & techniques to help you listen deeply, express clearly, and think outside the box
Engaging, collaborative challenges that forge stronger team bonds — ideal whether you’re flying solo or coming with a colleague
Boosted confidence and fresh insights you’ll be able to put into action the moment you’re back at your desk
Walk away with:
A toolkit of communication and creative skills you can apply straight away
Renewed confidence in your ability to connect and contribute
A more collaborative mindset — and new connections along the way!
All you have ever wanted to know about business succession but were afraid to ask!
Take a couple of hours out to really think about the future of your business…
Wednesday 1st November
Sessions: 8.15am and 12.15pm
The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Join us for our November Masterclass where we’ll be discussing succession planning and structuring sales and acquisitions with industry insiders.
Richard Ross, will outline the importance of differentiation and the value of building a strong management team. Mark Garner, a corporate finance professional, will share his extensive knowledge from being the lead adviser on over 250 deals as well as his personal experiences of buying and selling businesses. Simon Lubbock, Director of Natwest Commercial Banking will explore the finance opportunities available to acquirers and what they look for when financing a deal.
Discussions will also include:
· Who will buy my business?
· The importance of building a business someone will want
· The value in a strong management team
· Maximising sale value
· Business valuation techniques
· Tax efficient extraction
· Funding options and deal structures
The Masterclass will last around two hours with questions and be of interest to business owners and their advisers. Refreshments will be available.
‘Chadwick’s Masterclasses provide fresh insights and offer practical steps to build, maintain and retain value in businesses.’ Paul Palik Senior Associate, Corporate Team, Birketts