Eastern Promise - The Podcast
‘Eastern Promise‘ explores the full potential of the East of England. We talk to experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, disrupters and more, finding out why the Eastern region is the best place in the UK to start, run and grow a business. From architecture to zoology, every business has a place here, with Mike Rigby as your guide on this audio journey, celebrating and promoting our region. Eastern Promise also features the Plug Board; where a panel of three get to plug their own business, event or project in exchange for giving a plug to someone else in return. And there‘s also a bit of lighthearted audience participation in ‘CrowdSourcery’, where folk from across the East of England - and even beyond! - choose their favourite things on a given theme to share and celebrate! You can contact Mike at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episodes
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
This Week: It's part one of our occasional series looking into the work of the region's professional sports clubs in our communities. For our first stop, we're flocking to The Next, Horsford home of Norwich City Community Sports Foundation.
Mike pays the Nest a visit, chatting with Foundation CEO Ian Thornton OBE. We drop in on the 3G pitches, the Challenge Woods and the Clubhouse, where a Dementia Cafe is in full swing.
And finally, what's the top networking events that you just can't miss. We find out in another CrowdSourcery!
Eastern Promise is a Priors Croft production in proud association with Mills & Reeve, Achieving more, together.
Find out more here: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Were you born to run? Well, lots of you clearly were as we show a clean pair of heels to another CROWDSOURCERY!
Eastern Promise is brought to you in association with Mills & Reeve: Achieving More, Together.
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
We're in Ipswich, joining the 550th anniversary festivities of the birth of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: titan of Tudor politics. I'll be talking to Kath Cockshaw FRSA of Locus MS, Emily Shepperson from the Suffolk Archives and [checks notes] one Henry VIII!
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Eastern Promise is brought to you in association with Mills & Reeve: Achieving More, Together.
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
We're back and we're in Southwold, which can mean only one thing: the Sole Bay Brewery of Adnams and, specifically, Andy Wood OBE DL. Chief Executive of this independent family firm that is seen as a bellwether for the UK's brewing and hospitality sectors. I'll be chatting to Andy about the values Adnams embodies, as well as looking back on his time a the first ever Chair of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Eastern Promise is brought to you in association with Mills & Reeve: Achieving More, Together.
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
This Week: We're back! And, in a flying start to the new term, we're doing double duty in Suffolk, except it's not a duty, it's a pleasure...
First up, we're in Southwold, which can mean only one thing: the Sole Bay Brewery of Adnams and, specifically, Andy Wood OBE DL. Chief Executive of this independent family firm that is seen as a bellwether for the UK's brewing and hospitality sectors. I'll be chatting to Andy about the values Adnams embodies, as well as looking back on his time a the first ever Chair of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.
We're also in Ipswich, joining the 550th anniversary festivities of the birth of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: titan of Tudor politics. I'll be talking to Kath Cockshaw FRSA of Locus MS, Emily Shepperson from the Suffolk Archives and [checks notes] one Henry VIII (going under the pseudonym 'David Smith')!
And finally, were you born to run? Well, lots of your clearly were as we show a clean pair of heels to another CROWDSOURCERY!
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk. Eastern Promise is brought to you in association with Mills & Reeve: Achieving More, Together.
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
This week: CrowdSourcery takes to the Cam to celebrate our urban waterways!
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
As Eastern Promise heads off on a summer break for lots of lovely admin, we look ahead to what's coming soon on the podcast that explores the full potential of the East of England!
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
This week: I talk to Neil Fossett and Rachel Holden of Norfolk-based NR Medical Training about their work to bring knowledge and, crucially, language around sepsis to the social care sector. Sepsis claims the lives of five people an hour in the UK so ensuring the safety of the most vulnerable in our society has to be high on anyone's agenda.
Find out more here: https://nrmedical.training/
We also hear from Dr Ron Daniels, Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust.
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
This week: I talk to Neil Fossett and Rachel Holden of Norfolk-based NR Medical Training about their work to bring knowledge and, crucially, language around sepsis to the social care sector. Sepsis claims the lives of five people an hour in the UK so ensuring the safety of the most vulnerable in our society has to be high on anyone's agenda.
Also: as Eastern Promise heads off on a summer break for lots of lovely admin, we look ahead to what's coming soon on the world's favourite podcast focussed on raising aspiration in and for the East of England!
And Finally! CrowdSourcery takes to the Cam to celebrate our urban waterways!
Visit our website: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
This Week: We're clearly quite the smooth criminals in the East of England, as when we asked what you'd steal fror the region from elsewhere, there were enough suggestions to fill a police auction! Let's find out what you want to nick for our slice of the nation in another CROWDSOURCERY!!
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Welcome to Eastern Promise
Eastern Promise is the podcast that explores the full potential of the East of England. We showcase that potential, celebrate it and share it with you, our listener.
From architecture to zoology, your host Mike Rigby takes you on a tour of the region, finding out things you din't know you didn't know and surprising you as to the scale of fantastic stuff that's happening under our noses.
Photo, left: Mike and Engineer 49 record a Plug Board episode at the boardroom at the EpiCentre in Haverhill, Suffolk.