Eastern Promise - The Podcast

Episode 117: Anglia Capital Group & The Halo Programme (with PfBIO)

This week: Welcome to the first Eastern Promise podcase of 2025!  And what a belter it is...Anglia Capital Group MD Hannah Brynn joins me to discuss 'The Halo Programme', which readies participants to work with angel investors.  Hannah shares the way the programme works and we'll also hear from 2023 Halo Programme alum, Dr |Rosaria Campilongo of PfBIO on the difference the programme made to her.  But that's not all!  You can also hear an EXCLUSIVE sneak preview of the first few months of 2025's Eastern Promise goodness!  For more information on the Halo Programme and Anglia Capital Group, click here.Intrigued by PfBIO?  Then click here.To drop Eastern Promise a line, email podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 116: Nick Steven Jones, CEO Jarrold Group

This Week: In our last show of 2024, Mike Rigby chats to Nick Steven-Jones, Chief Executive of the Jarrold Group, which includes logistics, facilities management and training companies as well as the iconic Jarrolds department store in central Norwich.
We'll hear from Nick: how his career path's taken him through some of Norfolk's biggest names; what it means to have a 250-year old independent, family-run store under his watchful gaze; the brand evolution working with The Cl!ck; and also his chairmanship of the Norfolk Business Board.  
Get in touch by emailing us at: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk and find out more about Eastern Promise by going to easternpromise.org.uk.  
You can visit the Jarrold Group website here.
More details about the Norfolk Business Board are available here.
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CROWDSOURCERY! Tall Tales...

This Week: We're so pleased so many of you Love the CrowdSourcery feature (no, really; the data says so) and this time you've outdone yourselves, sharing your tallest tales, strangest stories and craziest chronicles from across the East of England, and here they are, recounted by a man who can't even act his age.
So prepare to...COWER from the wrath of the Ludham Wyrm!RECOIL at the expectorating antics of Cambridge's ghostly airman! FLEE as the Fen Tiger strikes!And more stories from local legends given a halloween spin!
Look out for our next call for some CrowdSourcery on LinkedIn and listen to more instalments at https://easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 115 : EdiForm - Fighting Dementia with 3D-Printed Food

This Week: Your host, Mike Rigby, chats with EdiForm founders John Farley and Prof. Sheng Qi about their revolutionary approach to dementia care: using specialised 3D printers to deliver more nutritious, palatable food - a huge leap forward in material science spinning out from the University of East Anglia.  We also share news of Newmarket's 'Presents Galore' festive shopping experience this coming weekend (29/11/24 - 1/12/24).
Find out more about EdiForm here, and click here to visit the Eastern Promise website.  To contact the show, simply  write to podcast@easternpromise.org.uk/.
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Episode 114: Beacon for Rare Diseases

This week: I chat with a Cambridge-based charity which supports patient groups formed by those who have a family member diagnosed with a rare condition.
We'll hear from Beacon CEO Rick Thompson and Digital Resources Manager Blayne Baker-Garwood, as well as co-founder of the Timothy Syndrome Alliance - which has been supported by Beacon - Sophie Muir.  It's a truly wonderful charity who provide hope and lift up those who are lifting up each other.
Find out more about Beacon for Rare Diseases here.
You can find out about the Timothy Syndrome Alliance here.
Contact Eastern Promise at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk or visit easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 113: A New Model for Lab Space, with Laura Grimwood & Adam Pead

This Week: Mike Rigby visits Co-Labs by Journey and meets Laura Grimwood, along with Adam Pead of Inuti, to look at a fresh new model for delivering lab space for scientific startups.  Laura encountered this model - where high-quality lab space is provided without the unnecessary fripperies that can drive up costs - in the USA and, on finding nothing like it in the UK, resolved to bring the model back to Britain.
And, dear listener, she did.
Laura and Adam, from lab property specialists Inuti, describe the steps taken to bring this 14,700 square feet of affordable startup space across the Pond, and describe just what makes this model so competitive.   
To find out more, visit: https://journeyre.io/spaces/colabs-niab-cambridge/
You can contact Eastern Promise at: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 112: Prof. David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia

This week: We begin our new six-week run of episodes with a very special guest: Professor David Maguire, Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (UEA).  I chat with David about the UEA's huge breadth of offer, its peerless position as an engine of sustainable economic growth and David's own varied career, how a new Vice-Chancellor goes about bringing change to the institution they lead.
We also chat about David's time as Principal of the Dyson Institute, and what we can learn from that unique facility.  
We also make mention of the Civic UEA team (to declare an interest, I produce their podcast) and you can click here to read their recent excellent report, 'Unlocking Norfolk's Potential'.     
To contact Eastern Promise, email podcast@easternpromise.org.uk or visit easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 111: The Cambridge-Manchester Partnership - As Seen From Manchester

This Week: At the inaugural Innovate Cambridge summit in 2023, a partnership between Innovate Cambridge and the University of Manchester was unveiled.  Now, with the 2024 Innovate Cambridge summit less than a week away, Eastern Promise is on the ground in Manchester, talking to Lou Cordwell OBE and John Holden of the University of Manchester.
Lou and John will be sharing their view of the opportunities and potential contained within this collaboration.  They'll also demonstrate that the two cities' differences on paper are dwarfed by the commonalities.  It's a must-listen if you want tot understand the scope and the potential bound within this project, and special thanks must go to: Lou & John, Lisa Gledhill & Kelly Burnham for all their help with logistics; to Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge for her help and the guest appearance; and to Cambridge Ahead CEO Dan Thorp, and Milner Therapeutics Institute and Connect:Health-Tech's Paula Rogers-Brown for assisting with my preparations and their general encouragement. 
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Episode 110: Transforming Ophthalmology through 3D Printing

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby chats with University of East Anglia academic, Dr Aram Saeed, about the revolution in ophthalmology that will use 3D printing to update treamtents dating back to WWII pilots and generic 'one-size-fits-all' ocular implants with bespoke, made-to-measure lenses.   
To find out more about Eastern Promise and listen to more episodes, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk, or contact us at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.  
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CROWDSOURCERY! What I did on my holidays...

We take a listen to your summertime activities across the mighty East of England, especially from those heading from Cambridgeshire to the Norfolk & Suffolk Coast.  Packed with our trademark...levity(?) if not brevity, take a listen to what our listeners have been doing across the region this Summer!  And make sure you listen all the way through for a special message.
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