Our wind project at Ysgellog Farm in Anglesey won the category for Outstanding Green Energy Project at the Wales Green Energy Awards held yesterday. Our Ysgellog Farm wind turbines were recognised mainly because of our commitment to retain economic benefits within Anglesey during the construction period.
This is what we’d like to create the same for our two turbine project near Sporle which will be decided by Breckland District Council following our planning application submissionin February 2014.
We hope you like viewing the video for our award winning wind turbines.The Enercon turbines are 92.5m to tip, and are expected to generate electricity for over 3,000 homes.
Looking to meet like-minded business people and wanting
to make business connections? Or are you needing to do
research for your business?
Then look no further than Business Break – a free monthly meeting
for small business owners and home workers.
Bring your laptop to Cromer Library where you can access our free
range of business books and online databases and chat to friendly
library staff who will help you get the most from the Business & IP
Centre resources.
Business Break runs from 11.00-12.30 and we provide free
refreshments. Register online or drop in on the day.
Now booking for 23rd & 24th April and 1st May 2019
This qualification is designed to get managers and supervisors, from any sector, up to speed on the practical actions needed to make health and safety “happen” in their teams. IOSH is the professional association for safety and health practitioners, with a global name to back up their courses.
Subjects covered 1. Introducing Managing Safely 2. Identifying hazards and Assessing risks 3. Risk Control Strategies and Techniques 4. Understanding responsibilities at all levels 5. Measuring performance 6. Investigating accidents and incidents
What will staff get out of it? What they need to know in a refreshing, informal, interactive and entertaining way. Managing Safely will give delegates the knowledge and tools they need to tackle the health and safety issues they’re responsible for. This course brings home the reasons why health and safety is such an essential part of their jobs.
Minimum Teaching Time: Minimum face-to-face contact time of 22 hours, usually over 3 days (2 days, break, final day) plus time to complete the workplace based assignment
Assessment Format: Delegates will need to complete two types of assessment at the end of the course. The first assessment is a 25-question, multiple choice examination of the course syllabus. The second test is a short project on conducting a risk assessment.
Date: 23rd & 24th April and 1st May 2019
Prerequisites; this is a challenging course, and prior completion of a level 2 course or equivalent would be a benefit. Candidates will require a moderate level of functional skills/academic ability, and access to a computer, for assignment work, email, etc.
Course cost; £450.00 +VAT. This includes all training materials, course notes, etc. and refreshments including a light lunch
Course Tutors: Richard Mills is a Chartered Practitioner of 30 years’ experience in the profession; The RedCat Partnership has been providing training & consultancy in Norfolk, East Anglia and Nationally for over 19 years, as well as providing the best health and safety training facilities in Norfolk, at No8 Thorpe Road.
The General Product Safety Regulation came into force on December 13, 2024 and places new responsibilities on British companies exporting to the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) and Northern Ireland (NI).
William Bain, the BCC’s Head of Trade Policy, answers the key questions about the new legislation.
What does it do?
The legisliation places new requirement on certain, but not all, goods exporters in Great Britian to the EU, the EEA and NI1.
The General Product Safety Regulation was proposed by the European Commission to address safety concerns over products entering the EU2.
It is designed to deal with goods sold via online marketplaces or other distance sale means which were non-compliant with EU safety standards and risked harm to consumers.
A precautionary principle runs throughout the new obligations and processes introduced by the Regulation, alongside strong traceability of products. The legislation was first consulted upon four years ago.
Footnotes
[1] European Economic Area – including the EU, and three EFTA states – Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein.
🌿 Last chance to enter the Clean and Green Awards! Entries close on Sunday 9th November, so if you’re driving sustainability and innovation across Norfolk and Suffolk — now’s the time to shout about it.
Whether you’re a business, project or individual making a real difference, we want to hear your story. Let’s celebrate those leading the way in creating a cleaner, greener future.
Norse Commercial Services and Great Yarmouth Borough Council have formed a new Joint Venture Company to manage and maintain the council’s community housing stock.
GYN Asset Management Services took over the asset management and building maintenance of the Borough Council’s stock of 6,000 houses as of October 1st.
The 10-year agreement is initially worth around £6 million a year, and is expected to rise over the coming years. It extends Norse’s partnership with Great Yarmouth Borough Council – GYB Services, another joint venture between the two organisations, handles local services including refuse collection, cleaning, grounds maintenance, pest control, and other frontline services.
The new partnership will take over Strategic Asset Management, Responsive Repairs, Voids Maintenance (housing stock that becomes vacant), Major Works, Planned Improvements, Cyclical and Statutory Maintenance, Neighbourhood Plans and New Builds.
There will be significant investment in new vehicles, and in IT aimed at improving efficiency and responsive repairs timescales.
“We are really pleased to be building on our long-term relationship with Great Yarmouth Borough Council, which goes back to the formation of GYB Services in 2002,” commented Norse Managing Director Peter Hawes. “This new partnership takes the number of joint ventures Norse Group has with UK local authorities to twenty-three, with a combined annual turnover of more than £140 million.”
Cllr Penny Linden, the borough council’s cabinet member for communities, said: “This new joint venture company aims to make sure all maintenance and improvement work is done to the highest standards, in the most effective, efficient and economic way.
“By operating more efficiently, the borough council will be able to make savings, which will benefit tenants as the savings will be re-invested in council homes.
“And the new approach will also mean improved waiting times, a better quality of work, and overall better customer care, while providing a range of apprenticeships and increased opportunities for local businesses.”
This partnership follows the recent formation of Newport Norse, a joint venture in South Wales, and the company expects further significant growth over the next few months. Norse Sales Director Geoff Tucker said, “With these new partnerships, and a large number of contract awards across the UK, we have seen a 15% increase in turnover this year, and we expect this success to continue.”
18 additional staff TUPE transferred into the new company.
In the lead-up to the eagerly anticipated art sculpture trail, GoGo Safari, Chantry Place is thrilled to announce the arrival of three mysterious animal crates on Saturday, the 24th of May, and they’re inviting families and visitors to come along, get involved and unleash their inner explorer.
Unveiled with a fun, safari-style spectacle featuring volunteers from Chantry Place, Break – the charity behind the trail – and other sponsors, the animal boxes will appear at Chantry Place and be placed in key locations throughout the Centre. Sponsored by Chantry Place, Keeler Recruitment, and Osiris IT, each box will feature clues and interactive elements to help visitors guess the animal sculpture inside – or at least imagine it!
Visitors can take part in a drawing competition, collecting special sheets on the day to take home and sketch the animal they believe is inside the box. Chantry Place has £150 worth of Langley’s gift vouchers to give away, with each winning young artist receiving a £50 voucher.
Jo Bates, General Manager of Chantry Place, said: “We’re so excited to kick off the countdown to GoGo Safari with this fun and immersive experience for families. The animal boxes are a great way to get the community guessing and engaging before the trail officially launches in June – and we can’t wait to see the wild guesses and even wilder drawings!”
The animal boxes will remain on display at Chantry Place for four weeks, giving families plenty of time to get involved before the full GoGo Safari trail launches on the 23rd of June, transforming Norwich and Norfolk into a vibrant safari landscape of over 50 large-scale animal sculptures which include rhinos, gorillas, lions, elephants and giraffes.
As a proud presenting partner and sponsor of the trail, Chantry Place will feature six large sculptures and 16 mini-giraffes designed by local schools, making it one of the key destinations on the trail.
Delivered by Break in partnership with the Zoological Society of East Anglia, alongside Norwich BID, and Chantry Place, each sculpture has been designed by talented artists and sponsored by local businesses and raises vital funds for Break and their life-changing work for young people in, around and beyond care. The animal boxes were produced by CIM Signs & Graphics, and Chantry Place thanks all sponsors and Break for their support in bringing this epic experience to life.
Don’t miss the adventure – come to Chantry Place on the 24th of May to discover the mystery, make your guess, and let your imagination run wild!
Swarm is really pleased to welcome Chris Reeve (Superman) who has become the newest member of the Operations team here at Swarm HQ here in Wymondham.
Chris has been involved with Swarm unofficially for over a year as he is coming to the end of his enterprise apprenticeship working with Robert Aston, the founder of Swarm. Now due to Swarm’s growth he has officially has moved over in a duel role in supporting the operations team and growing new business opportunities.
Chris Perry, Swarm’s Managing Director, said, “I am happy that Chris has joined us officially as he will be fantastic addition to the team that always go above and beyond in matching the right candidates for our employers positions.
As a Swarm apprentice, Chris Reeve really embodies the enterprising characteristics of Swarm and as such, he has already proven his ability to encourage businesses in taking on young people to support their organisations. There really is no better way to encourage businesses to take on apprentices when the person they’re talking to is an apprentice themselves.
With a name like Chris Reeve, I have very high hopes for him and I am sure that he will be dedicated to the role when he is not donning his red cape and saving the world.”
On joining the company, Chris Reeve commented, “I am delighted to officially join the Swarm Apprenticeships team. Since becoming an apprentice I’ve become extremely passionate about the brand and the direction in which the organisation is moving. I’m thoroughly looking forward to getting stuck into the role and getting to know more people in the local business community.”
Chris Reeve will be out in the business community at events so please look out for him (minus spandex) and hear his apprenticeship story. Who knows, you may just want one yourself.
It’s a pivotal year in the Ideal Home Shows more than 100 year history, with 2015 seeing the show return to Olympia for the first time since 1978. A change of venue brings a whole new set of challenges for an event of any size, not least one the scale of the Ideal Home Show. As a result, the show management team were keen to quickly assess visitor experiences and to do so, chose to partner with Zing for their 2015 spring event insights.
Zing Director, Lisa Holt said “We are thrilled to be working with award winning event organiser Media 10 on such a prestigious event in such a landmark year. Our approach incorporates our unique iPad research pods, which mean we’re able to provide daily visitor experience feedback during the show and we’ll supplement this further with post-show online research.”
Holt continued “We’ve worked with some amazing event brands since our launch in 2011 and are keen to continue to build our events portfolio. We’ve recently re-launched our website (www.zinginsights.com) to help us to demonstrate our expertise and the benefits of working with qualified research professionals.
Our very happy client base has been kind enough to spread the word about working with Zing through referral and recommendation. We know they’re happy because we conduct our own customer research which helps us to make sure that we’re delivering the best product and service possible.”
Ideal Home Show Marketing Manager, Jo Bowry said “We chose to work with Zing because of their multi-layered approach to research, which suits our need for both on site and post show surveys at the show this year. With the show in a new venue, our customer insights will be more valuable than ever before to ensure we are delivering the high level of visitor experience that the show is renowned for and we are pleased that Zing are on board to help us deliver this.’
Norwich International Airport has become one of the first in the UK to transition to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) aerodrome regulatory regime, underlying its growing reputation as one of Britain’s most progressive airports. Only the fourth UK site to transfer to the system, which all European airports must adhere to by December 2017, Norwich is among a small group of pioneering aviation hubs setting the pace for the industry.
“Norwich has always worked hard at being one of the country’s most progressive airports, which is why we agreed early this year to become part of a pilot initiative mapping the approach required to transition to the new European wide system,” said Richard Pace, Operations Director at Norwich International Airport.
“While our existing procedures and approach to safety made the process relatively straightforward, taking the initiative not only kept us ahead of the game, but will also enable airports around the UK to learn from our experience and best practice.” EASA is the centrepiece of the European Union’s aviation safety system, working alongside the European Commission and the National Aviation Authorities (NAAs) to improve standards. The Agency develops common safety and environmental rules, monitors the implementation of standards through inspections and provides the necessary technical expertise and training to support the system.
All UK Aerodromes open to public use and which serve commercial air transport and where operations using instrument approach or departure procedures are provided fall within the scope of the EASA regulations, which came into force on 6 March 2014. Norwich participated in a pilot scheme designed to identify best practice for UK airports transferring to the scheme early this year, then became one of the first to formally make the switch a few weeks ago.
Richard Pace added: “I felt it was important for us to play a key role in the process. Despite their importance to local communities and economies regional airports are often drowned out by the noise generated by larger sites, and we wanted to ensure that our voice would be heard.” Norwich owner Regional & City Airports (RCA) – the airports division of Rigby Group PLC – believes that the announcement will also deliver benefits for its operations at Coventry and Exeter.
John Spooner, Director of Airport Management at Rigby Group’s airports division Regional & City Airports (RCA) said: “One of the key benefits RCA offers its airports is shared experience and expertise. With Norwich having so successfully completed its role as an industry pathfinder, the knowledge gained during the exercise will greatly ease the transition process at Coventry and Exeter Airports.”
For 2 years now our Operations Director Francesca de Lacey has been going on about her love of reusable nappies, and her despair over the lack of information for parents about the options available.
So imagine her delight when JMS was approached by the owner of one of the UK’s biggest reusable brands – Little Lamb Nappies – to create some professional promotional videos.
Being herself a user of cloth nappies and the brand, Francesca was the perfect choice to front the productions – a first for a reusable nappy brand – and show, ‘mum-to-mum’, how they work.Covering the 3 main types (One Size Pocket, Sized Pocket and Nappy & Wrap) the films introduce the numerous benefits, look, absorbency and fit of cloth nappies.
Filming took place in our TV studio in Norwich with one day shooting presenter links and a second day capturing the antics of 6 ‘cloth bum baby’ models for the title sequences.
The short films are a great introduction to this growing market and JMS has loved working with this fantastic brand and shooting with a bunch of funny, crazy and unpredictable youngsters! (oh, and the babies too….!)