Eastern Promise - The Podcast

This Week: And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material...
Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk 

This Week: I talk to Clarice Benney of Connect Health Tech about this ground-breaking collaborative community at the nexus of tech and medicine, as well as sakuting the winners of the 2023 Connect Health Tech Community Awards!
Find out more here; https://connect.cam.ac.uk/health-tech 
And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material...
Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk  

This Week:  We delve into your big plans for 2024 and find out what's got you salivatin', despite the waitin'! Yes, that's all on the first 2024 CROWDSOURCERY!
For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk  

This Week: Mike Rigby and co-host Sally Osborne try out the UrbanXR pop-up shop in Castle Quarter, Norwich.   UrbanXR's James Lee Burgess helps them experience some mixed reality retail that just might save our high streets...
For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk   

This Week: Happy New Year!  We kick off 2024 in fine fettle, as Mike chats to Waveney MP Peter Aldous about offshore wind, online democracy, and the regeneration of Lowestoft.  Pete also gives us his hot take on the Autumn Statement... 
For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk.  
* Please note: interviewees views are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Eastern Promise or its presenters.

This Week: Happy New Year!  We kick off 2024 in fine fettle, as Mike chats to Waveney MP Peter Aldous about offshore wind, online democracy, and the regeneration of Lowestoft.  Peter also gives us his hot take on the Autumn Statement*, delivered minutes before we recorded the interview... 
And there's more! Mike and co-host Sally Osborne try out the UrbanXR pop-up shop and experience some mixed reality retail that just might save our high streets.
And finally!  We delve into your big plans for 2024 and find out what's got you salivatin', despite the waitin'! Yes, that's all on the first 2024 CROWDSOURCERY!
For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk.  
 
* Please note: interviewees views are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Eastern Promise or its presenters.

This week: What's on your Christmas list for the East of England?  Let's find out in another bauble-bustin' CROWDSOURCERY...

This week:Eastern Promise head honcho Mike Rigby chairs a Bidwells Bitesize event looking at the potential of onshore wind energy, . An expert panel consisting of Chris Thyer and James Alflatt of Bidwells, and Isobel Morris from the RSPB, look at the potential, possibilities and, yes, pitfalls of onshore wind, and answer key questions such as: what is the current planning situation?  What effect do they have on wildlife?  And what should landowners do if apporached?  Recorded as live at the Centrum building on Norwich Research Park in November 2024.  
And finally!  What's on your Christmas list for the East of England?  Let's find out in another bauble-bustin' CROWDSOURCERY...

And Now!  We run down your festive frivolities and Mike adds to the Christmas spirit by composing some appropriately (awful) East-of-England themed Cracker Jokes, for your listening...we want to say 'pleasure'?  

We reconvene our fourth Cam-Brecks Panel, examining how the Norfolk Brecks can support the growth of Cambridge.  
In this fourth panel of our occasional series, Mike is joined by Chris Starkie of Norfolk County Council, Anna Aldous of Mills & Reeve, Andrew Holdsworth of Breckland District Council and Paul Downing of Snetterton Business Park, to look at the importance of the park's commercial offer in proximity to Cambridge.  We also learn more about the emerging Norfolk Economic Strategy from Chris Starkie! 
 
Thank you to our sponsors Mills & Reeve
For more information, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk