M+A’s Managing Partner Jeremy Robson is be joined by GDPR expert Alex Saunders, Solicitor at Leathes Prior Solicitors. Together they respond to questions relating to GDPR. Jeremy and Alex debunk the myths surrounding GDPR legislation.
AFI KLM E&M subsidiary is delighted to announce the signing of a line maintenance agreement with SAS.
KLM UK Engineering will be supporting SAS with their Boeing 737 & Airbus A320 Family aircraft providing line maintenance support in Edinburgh & Aberdeen commencing early 2018. Ian Bartholomew, Director Business Development & Sales – “We will be supporting SAS with both the Boeing & A320 aircraft at our established line maintenance stations in Edinburgh & Aberdeen. We are delighted to support SAS at these line stations and look forward to developing the relationship further over the coming years“.
Freebridge Community Housing are pleased to announce the completion of the latest phase of their Hillington Square regeneration project.
The completion of Eldridge Court follows on from the work at Colby Court, Millfleet Court and Valentine Place, and sees work on 202 of the original 320 homes now finished.
New tenants will begin to move back into Eldridge Court in early April, and the completed phase will contain three 3 bed maisonettes, seventeen 2 bed maisonettes, eight 2 bed flats, eight 1 bed flats and eight studio flats. Chief Executive of Freebridge Community Housing,
Tony Hall, said: “We continue to be hugely proud of the work that’s been completed at Hillington Square, and it’s going to be fantastic to see people moving back into their new homes over the next few weeks.
“We are now past the half-way point of the project, although there is still plenty to do to ensure we complete the remaining work at Hillington Square to the same high quality as the earlier phases. We will shortly begin a number of new tender exercises in respect of the work still to be done, which will see us start on the next phase in 2019.”
Eldridge Court has been named in honour of Jack Albert D Eldridge, a decorated World War II veteran, who passed away in 2000 and whose family has ties to Hillington Square.
Staff from Flagship Group will be donning their high vis jackets from next week (Tuesday 24 April) for seven weeks for their first ever Community Campaign. The project will see Flagship employees, Flagship customers, and members of the public come together to regenerate two cemetery sites on Kitchener Road in Great Yarmouth.
Working in partnership with The Conservation Volunteers, as well as the Norfolk Community Foundation and The Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust, volunteers will take part in activities every Tuesday afternoon (1pm-4pm) to boost the biodiversity of the green space and improve their own wellbeing.
The activities volunteers will be involved in include: the removal of ivy and bracken, restoring graves and conservation work such as identifying wildflower species.
CSR Manager at Flagship Group Callum James said: “Volunteering is a great way to improve your wellbeing as it’s creating new experiences and skills. It will also create a sense of value and pride for those taking part as they’re making a positive difference by enhancing the local area. We therefore hope lots of people will come along to make the project a success.”
Mark Webster from The Conservation Volunteers said: “The Old and New Cemeteries are a fascinating place to work – right in the centre of Great Yarmouth we have some wonderful wildlife and extraordinary history. I’m sure that people who join us for this project will really enjoy conserving their local heritage.”
The project is open to anyone aged 18 years and over. Sturdy shoes will need to be worn.
For anyone interested in taking part please contact Callum James on 0845 258 6210 or callum.james@flagship-group.co.uk
This project is a continuation of the award-winning regeneration work to cemeteries undertaken by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust and The Friends of the Cemeteries Group.
Norwich Business School at UEA has recently aligned its Executive MBA to the new Level 7 Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship standard. This means that employers will be able to access funding for this course if they are paying the apprenticeship levy.
The programme is aimed at those in senior leadership positions who wish to enhance and develop their leadership skills and also those in middle management roles who aspire to continue to progress through their organisation.
As a member of the Norwich Financial Industry Group (FIG), the School is currently exploring interest in developing a Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship specifically for financial and related professional services. This would enable participants to complete the Executive MBA but with some sector-specific elements.
An open evening will be held at the Marsh offices in Norwich on Thursday 26 April and is open to HR professionals (with responsibility for identifying potential leaders within your organisation), finance managers and prospective candidates. The evening will be an informal chance to learn more about the programme and ask any questions you may have.
To register a place – or find about more about the MBA programme and degree apprenticeships – email mbateam@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 591753.
Abate Pest Management has been awarded the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS) accreditation for the 4th year running.
The accreditation means that the eastern regional Pest Control company, now in its 19th year of operation, can reassure clients about their commitment to comply with important health and safety legislation.
Working with pest control companies that are accredited with CHAS, offers peace of mind to customers that they are fully compliant with the highest levels of health and safety.
Jon Blake, Managing Director, said: “CHAS is an established industry benchmark, and the renewal of our accreditation means it’s easier for over 1,000 companies to use us. We have several clients that only work with CHAS approved contractors. These companies use CHAS, as it supports ongoing improvements in the control and selection of its contractors, helping them achieve Health and Safety compliance. It also demonstrates responsibility and safeguard their reputation.”
In addition to Chas, Abate Pest Management are accredited with SafeContractor, ISO9001, ISO 18001 and ISO14001. They are also a full servicing member of the British Pest Control Association.
CHAS (The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) was created by experienced health and safety professionals in 1997 to improve health and safety standards across the UK.
To contact Abate please call 01953 603390 or visit www.abateltd.co.uk.
Bigfork worked with Naked Marketing to improve this market leader’s website. The main aim of the new website was to position Omar’s park homes as the best in their industry.
With the Naked team we created a new website that showcased their product range with exciting new photography and an improved user experience. We also worked on search and conversion optimisation to boost lead generation, results so far show the new website is performing very well and is on track to meet targets.
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As impossible as it seems that’s exactly the message Norwich-based accountancy firm TaxAssist is spreading with its first national TV campaign.
Showing on several channels including Channel 4, Dave and Comedy Central, this commercial features three small business owners hard at work without a care in the world. Well, why would they when TaxAssist have their taxes under control? There’s Sophie the painter/decorator, Carl the baker, and Dave – the owner of a small tech business.
Our aim was to give the commercial a fun, fresh feel with plenty of smiles. This is mirrored in the bouncy, upbeat music and the choice of voice artiste: Norfolk’s own award-winning voiceover, Neil Didsbury, the friendliest man in the business.
For maximum on-screen impact, we also commissioned a large and rather unique cake from Dereham-based cake decorator’s ‘Little A’s Cakes’. Three tiers high with a striking blue and yellow drip effect, our TaxAssist cake was topped off with marbled meringues. Mouth-watering… until you remember the centre is polystyrene.
Norwich residents can look out for a special appearance by one of the city’s top bakeries. We used Pye Bakery on Dereham Road as the setting for Carl’s Cakes. And our final shot of the commercial is Sophie entering the TaxAssist Accountants shop on Aylsham Road, there for all her accountancy needs. Who needs Elstree when you’ve got the fine city?
And the final word should of course go to our brilliant client:
“We’re thrilled to take the TaxAssist brand in to the exciting world of TV advertising and appointing the team at the JMS Group was the right decision. The fact we’re showcasing a national network of nearly 300 TaxAssist Accountant locations across the UK and it was all filmed in Norwich just shows the skills and expertise held in this city. We were pitched to by agencies outside of Norfolk, as well as within the county, but JMS showed they have the quality to deliver what we needed.”
James Mattam, Group Business Development Director, The TaxAssist Group.
Abate Pest Management has become the pest control company of choice to Black Cat Residential Property Limited located in Wisbech, supporting their growing number of fully managed rental properties.
Abate are well known in the housing sector, working for several housing associations, letting agents and private landlords. Jon Blake of Abate said, “we are delighted to support Black Cat Residential Property with a reactive pest control service. Its good to work with another property company that puts tenants first and have solutions in place whenever they are required.”
Wendy Ferguson of Black Cat Residential Property said, “We have had enormous difficulty in the past securing services from a reliable and competitive Pest Controller, but Jon and his team at Abate have provided an excellent service for our properties with very prompt reaction times – we would recommend them to anyone in the property industry looking for a dependable and consistent Pest Control service.”
Jon went onto say “pest control is a service that should be treated with extreme importance. There are many laws and regulations to protect the public. This legislation includes how toxic bait is used, how many times a pest controller must revisit a site within specific times, how pesticide is stored and how the waste is disposed of. At Abate we make sure that every small piece of detail is covered. We are proud to be full servicing members of the British Pest Control Authority, hold triple ISO quality certification and put our technicians through continuous training.
Abate Pest Management are now responsible for being called out to manage pest control in approximately 25,000 residential properties within Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Bedfordshire via housing associations, letting agents or landlords.
Give Abate Pest Management a call on 0800 980 9767 or via their website www.abateltd.co.uk.
For nearly two decades, Digital Copier Systems (Eastern) has been supporting customers, new and existing, in providing premier hardware and software solutions to meet their digital office requirements, with a 5 Star rated Service in support. Over the past few years, we have seen a steady increase in software solution requirements, with many successful implementations. Our newest Software Solutions Consultant, Sean McLaughlan, joined DCS back in October 2017, bringing a new perspective to our software division, working closely with our existing software team to get up to speed with the brands we offer. Due to an overwhelming response to our latest software-focussed email campaigns, we are please to announce that the division will now come under the DCS-owned brand Nu Process. Continuing our ethos of being committed to providing quality customer satisfaction, and guaranteeing peace of mind, here is some more information on Nu Process: Nu Process provides software solutions to all types of businesses and industries, looking at customers’ requirements, consulting on where processes can be improved by technology, recommending and implementing with minimum fuss or disruption, and supporting over the coming years. Other software companies usually use an “off-the-shelf” type software format, and fit a customer around the features. At Nu Process, we delve deep into their business processes, looking at how long it takes to physically carry out each individual manual task (down to the time taken in opening of an envelope) and providing a solution that potentially utilises multiple technologies to answer the long term operational process problem(s). Previously, our team of Consultants and Implementation Managers have worked under the Digital Copier Systems (Eastern) banner, with much success since inception in March 2001. As of March 15th 2018, on DCS’s 17th birthday, we move forward under the name of Nu Process. We remain a part of DCS, under the guidance of Managing Director Nigel Wallis, and the new brand is championed by the entire solutions division teams. We maintain the strong relationship with Konica Minolta that DCS has long partnered with, as a 5 Star service and office solution provider, and continue to access their wealth of knowledge and existing portfolio of software solution technologies, including a close affinity with their “Process Flows” branding. Our name is related to our starting location, on Gamma Terrace, in Ipswich’s Ransomes Europark. Nu is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet, and represents notable elements of Mathematics, Science and Engineering. In statistics, it measures the degrees of freedom. It also plays on the word “New”, despite being correctly pronounced as [nee]. You can visit our dedicated website: HERE.
KLM UK Engineering Partners with Vision Concept Aviation Training Institute (VCATI)
April 2018 – KLM UK Engineering is delighted to announce the signing of a long-term partnership with VCATI for the provision of EASA Part 147 exams supported by KLM UK Engineering’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Software.
Under the agreement KLM UK Engineering will support VCATI’s successful Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering and Advanced Diploma in Aircraft Engineering Technology programmes by providing experienced examiners and VLE to allow the students to gain their EASA Part 66 B1.1 & B2 licence.
VCATI has arrangements in place to supplement the online training with tutorials from industry veterans so that students can qualify while they are employed in good time with top results. Captain Mohamed Obaid Al Suwaidi, Founder of VCATI says “We are committed to the needs of the aviation industry. We launched our student courses last year with intake for the A1 & A2 aircraft maintenance engineering program due to high industry demand and employment potential in the field. Our partnership with KLM UK Engineering to offer B1.1 & B2 qualifications online will open opportunities to hundreds of technicians and workers in the aviation industry to enhance their careers by qualifying for high potential jobs. Our own students acquiring A1 & A2 licenses next year can take up employment and pursue a higher qualification without having to take a gap year.”
Whilst, Ian Bartholomew, Director Business Development & Sales of KLM UK Engineering added: “The partnership with VCATI is another step forward in our aim to connect KLM UK Engineering’s VLE products to many young engineers in the UK and abroad. The industry needs many good engineers for the future to accommodate the growing worldwide fleet and to replace inevitable retirements. KLM UK Engineering wants to leverage its knowledge and experience by connecting many more academies to its growing educational centre at its head office in Norwich. “
Professional recruitment specialists Pure hosted its annual Norwich charity quiz night on Thursday 29th March, bringing local businesses and clients together for a battle of the brains which raised over £2483 for dementia support charity the Alzheimer’s Society.
The fun evening, which has become renowned for its playful rivalry between local organisations, saw 25 teams take part to pit their wits against each other. The teams included people from BDO, Grant Thornton and Kettle Foods. The overall winners were a team from Norfolk Community Health and Care who were presented with bottles of Champagne.
The event, held at the Sprowston Manor Hotel, also included a raffle, with prizes donated by local businesses including to help raise further funds.
Joseph O’Sullivan, Senior Manager at Pure’s Norwich office, said: “This was our ninth annual charity quiz night in Norwich and it was once again a fantastic success. The friendly competition between local businesses makes the event a lot of fun, and the title of our annual Quiz Champions really is becoming quite coveted now! I would like to thank everyone who attended, donated and contributed to the event. We are delighted to have to have been able to raise such an excellent amount, and to have had some of the volunteers from the Alzheimer’s Society with us on the night to tell us more about how this money will be used to support people in the local community.”
The Alzheimer’s Society is a dementia support charity which provides a range of services including the running of dementia cafes. It currently supports over 40,000 people affected by dementia and it is also the only UK charity investing in research into dementia care, cause, and prevention. It has committed to spending £150 million on cutting-edge research over the next decade.
The funds raised were secured through the entry fee for each team, with the full amount being donated to the charity, and through the raffle of prizes donated by local organisations. Pure is committed to continuing to support its charity partners across the region. This includes £2,700 raised for Norfolk’s cancer charity The Big C at last year’s Norwich quiz night.