Our Events

The Generation Next Awards recognises young talent from across the East Midlands business community. This year, we're returning to The Chocolate Factory in Derby, home to Bustler Market, for an awards ceremony like no other - where you can sample street food, craft beer and cocktails, and experience live music while catching up with your peers in its lively beer garden.

The Annual Dinner is the premier formal evening in the Chamber’s event calendar. This evening event brings together prominent business leaders from across our three counties, to reflect on the past year and look to the year ahead.

Back by popular demand! Face-to-face communications will make or break a career. The ability to communicate effectively and with impact is essential in business. From public speaking, to pitching, to boardroom behaviour – it’s a necessary skill. The ability to communicate about you, your organisation and your message and do it with impact.

Research has shown that 90% of managers squander their time in all sorts of ways at work and only 10% spend their time in a committed, purposeful, and reflective manner (Harvard Business Review). To help you get started on making sure you are one of the 10%, at this session we will be looking at performance management - ensuring everyone is clear about their own goals and expectations at work.

Sixes Social Cricket will make an ideal venue for our June networking social. You'll be able to connect with likeminded people, while you use Sixes' cutting edge sports technology to play cricket with your peers.

Join Generation Next and Orangetheory Fitness for a one-hour, full body workout, focused on training endurance, strength and power. This fun filled networking session is a great alternative way to meet likeminded individuals while enjoying the health benefits of working out and reducing anxiety and stress.

We've joined forces with Nelsons Solicitors to bring you our May Social, where you will get the chance to experience an evening of networking while enjoying drinks from the bar, playing a game of pool and nibbling on snacks.

Being able to manage your time effectively can help you improve your productivity. Excellent time management skills assist you to plan your daily workload, prepare for meetings and complete your targets on time.

Peer Networks is a peer-to-peer networking programme that is delivered locally by the network of Growth Hubs across England. We create diverse cohort groups of individuals to collaboratively work through common business issues. Through interactive action learning, we enable you to discuss your own challenges, gain and reflect on valuable feedback and implement practical solutions to overcome them.

Our awards recognise young talent from across the East Midlands business community, and at this event, you will join our board, partners and team in celebrating this year’s shortlist of young professionals and entrepreneurs. This event will be held in Leicestershire, with the venue to be confirmed shortly.

Effective leaders have a responsibility to set a clear vision for their team, enhance productivity, boost morale but also support the people within the team to grow. There are several different leadership styles suitable for distinct personalities and workplaces, it's therefore important to establish what leadership model suits you and your team the best.

If you love the great outdoors, join Generation Next at Twycross Zoo on a leisurely guided walk around the wonderful the zoo and nature reserve. We will get to meet several animals along the way.