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 Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Eastern Promise looks at STEMM skills this week, talking to Dr Samantha Fox, Co-Founder and Director of the Youth STEMM Awards CIC. Meanwhile, you can hear more about Priors Croft Services and finally, we head to the smallest city in the East of England, ELY!
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mark Nicholas, Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, continues our tour of the Norfolk Showground, taking in the arena and discussing the potential of the site.
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mike hits the halls at the Norfolk Showground for the 2022 Southern North Sea - Energy Integrated in the East 2022 conference, talking to EEEGR, Vattenfall, East Coast College, Apprenticeships Norfolk, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, the City of Virginia Beach, ABP Ports, East Wind, and Opergy.
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mike returns to the Norfolk Showground to join the throng attending the EEEGR SNS2022 conference. MD of the RNAA Mark Nicholas takes us more of the exhibition space at the Showground; and Mike's Wymondham wonders are wobbly but stick with it!
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mike gets caught out this week, as one of his Wymondham facts is a bit wobbly and now, only one is true! Fear not: the record is corrected and hopefully it will not detract from your enjoyment...
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, Mark Nicholas MBE DL, talks to Eastern Promise about why the Royal Norfolk Show is the RNAA's flagship, the work the Association does and Mark and Mike take a turn around the Royal Norfolk Showground, looking for (and finding) opportunities to expand the RNAA's offer.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Mike tells us all about Fakenham and gets to grips with the tricky business of chocolate-making. Well, tricky for Mike anyway...
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
With the 2022 Royal Norfolk Show just weeks away, Mike talks to Mark Nicholas MBE, Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) about how and why the Show is the Association's flagship event, the purposes of the RNAA and we also take a tour of the Showground itself. Then, Challenge: Anglia takes on Fakenham! Thank you to Mark for his time.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Do you know your fact from your fiction when it comes to North Norfolk and its coastline? Only one way to find out!
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Mike talks more with Emma Fletcher, MD of Evera Homes and Chair of the Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust.
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.