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Business and Charity combine to help with jobsearch skills

Norfolk businesses and a local charity have combined to support adults with disabilities gain valuable job search skills.

Five adults with learning disabilities accessed the Jobsearch Skills workshops through the Norfolk based BUILD Charity, who teamed up with senior managers, and owners of Norfolk businesses to pass on their experiences, and provide mock job interviews to candidates for a fictitious role.

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Businesses in and around Watton the first to benefit from innovative apprenticeship scheme

Swarm Apprenticeships Ltd is a new business that makes the process for taking on an apprentice far easier for smaller businesses. They're looking for businesses in and around Watton who want to take on an apprentice to get involved.

Watton is the base of Swarm’s first group and is already attracting interest from local students who want to get straight into work and develop their entrepreneurial attitude to help businesses grow.

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Analyse your competition

Our latest article in our popular website design series is out. "The Bigfork Guide to Competitive Website Analysis" tells you why you need to analyse your competitors websites and how to do it. If you want to see our past articles please let us know.

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Swarm Apprenticeships Wins £50,000 Grant From Norfolk County Council

Local social entrepreneur and business author Robert Ashton has set up a new organisation to help very small businesses take on their first apprentice. Swarm Apprenticeships Ltd is a social business, established with a grant of £50,000 over two years from Norfolk County Council.

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Moco Helps Broadland Council Boost Communication

MoCo Development has been working closely with Broadland District Council to deliver a programme of training focusing on internal and external customer service as well as improving communication channels. The council has reported significant benefits from the training that have fundamentally changed the way it communicates with both its customers and internal staff.

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Microsoft Office 365 - Thinking about it?

Microsoft Office 365 is the natural cloud based progression for PC based Microsoft Office applications. The current MS Office product provides customers with a powerful set of tools that supports the entire spectrum of productivity scenarios, from the most basic to the more advanced.

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Fosters Solicitors Celebrate Regional Law Firm of the Year

Norwich based law firm Fosters Solicitors are celebrating being named "Regional Law Firm of the Year" at the Halsbury Legal Awards in London.

The Halsbury Legal Awards are run by legal information provider, LexisNexis and are a celebration of excellence in the law and great contribution to the legal sector. The judging panel was made up of leading legal experts ranging from the chief executive of the Access to Justice Foundation to the Dean of Laws at the UCL Judicial Institute

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Pitched to Perfection: New Clients and Successful Campaigns for Jungle PR

Jungle Public Relations Ltd has been appointed to work with four new clients.

Based near Dereham, Jungle PR is current Gold winner of ‘Outstanding Small Consultancy in East Anglia’ and has been commissioned to progress regional and national consumer awareness campaigns to promote this year’s Holkham Country Fair, Peter Field Golf Shop, the White Lion Hotel in Aldeburgh and write copy for the Anglian Home Improvements staff newsletters.

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Year 8 pupils from Taverham Hall Preparatory School enjoy field trip to the Apple Store

Year 8 pupils from Taverham Hall Preparatory school enjoyed their trip to the Apple store in Norwich where they had the opportunity to create their very own music using GarageBand on the latest Macbook Pro laptops.

This is a regularly run annual trip and one which generates quite a lot of excitement as the pupils look forward to learning more about the latest software applications in the fun Apple Store environment. The Apple store team especially tailor the Field Trip day to set new challenges for our Year 8 pupils .

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Pupils from Taverham Hall Preparatory School make Viking Boat as part of their Willow Art Project

The recent Art Days for Years 7 and 8 were led by Maggie Campbell who specialises in outdoor sculptures and installations.

Maggie worked for film studios and the BBC in the days of elaborate props and wobbly scenery. She was involved in making many of the incredible creatures for the sci-fi classics which came to our screens from the 60s onwards, including terrors such as the ‘Daffodil men’ in Doctor Who – undoubtedly more frightening in black and white.