Business Connect
At EMPOWERUS, much of our work sits within education but education doesn’t stop at the classroom. In a world of lifelong learning, some of the most powerful development happens inside businesses, across industries, and between peers. People are learning on the job every day through conversations, shared challenges, experimentation, and lived experience. We know that one of the greatest accelerators of growth is peer support.
EMPOWERUS is a collaborative in its own right, but we don’t exist in isolation. Alongside us sit a number of incredible, community-driven projects that are building momentum across our region connecting founders, professionals, creatives, and sector leaders in practical, grounded ways. This page highlights opportunities to learn, connect, and engage within industry because professional growth, trade knowledge, and community learning are just as important as formal education.
Here are some amazing examples, click on the image to discover more.
Ipswich.Love
One of those projects is Ipswich.love a volunteer-led initiative that has become a visible heartbeat for business and community events across the town. Below, you’ll find their live business networking feed making it easier to discover what’s happening, where to show up, and who you might meet next.
Because collaboration doesn’t compete.
It compounds. ❤️
Below you’ll find a live feed of local business networking events, brought through directly from Ipswich.love. You can explore what’s coming up, follow the links, and join events that feel right for you or head straight to Ipswich.love to dive deeper into the project. We genuinely encourage you to sign up for their updates and get involved. The more we engage by attending, sharing, subscribing and contributing the stronger these community platforms become. They’re able to keep you informed and demonstrate impact, attract sponsorship, and secure the support that keeps projects like this thriving.
It’s a simple way to strengthen the local ecosystem and to make sure you never miss what’s happening.
Susie’s Mad Little Marketer Business Networking Newsletter
Susie Steed’s Mad Little Marketer newsletter is one of the region’s most trusted and genuinely useful curated business resources. It isn’t a generic mailing list it’s a community-powered feed of local networking opportunities and events across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk that are relevant, practical and inclusive.
Every week, Susie gathers and curates business networking events, meet-ups, breakfasts, discussions and gatherings that help local professionals connect, learn, collaborate and grow. The newsletter consistently achieves engagement rates of 65–70%+, showing how much subscribers value the content and recommendations.
We warmly recommend signing up for Susie’s newsletter as another way to stay connected with what’s happening across the local business community. It’s a fantastic complement to the event feeds here giving you curated, timely and useful information so you never miss a chance to connect, learn or grow.