Maresa Molloy is head of policy and information at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

7.15am: Get up – reluctantly as ever. No early morning gym for me. Although, to be fair, I do go to a regular Pilates class and I’ve just taken up Salsa so I get some exercise. James, my partner, has already been up for an hour and he brings me a cup of tea.

8.30am: Leave for work. Usually I take the train but today I need the car.

9am: It's Budget Day. I read the De Havilland briefing paper on the Budget predictions. Jack Stopforth, chamber chief executive, is doing the Daily Post live budget blog, so he already has a copy of the briefing.

9.30am: Meet with Peter North, from the University of Liverpool, to discuss a series of events we are planning in partnership with Liverpool Vision and Groundwork. We’ve decided to call the series Low Carbon Liverpool.

10am: We are joined by The Design Foundry, one of our member companies who work with us. They present logos and images to market the programme. I love the design. It makes me more excited about the project.

10.30am: Speak to the office of Euro MP Arlene McCarthy to confirm she will speak at an event we are organising in June.

10.45am: Take a call from Sheffield City Council. They have seen a copy of our Little Green Book – a directory that we produced for Year of the Environment. They want some advice on doing something similar in Sheffield.

11am: Briefly meet with a company called Entec UK, a national environmental consultancy that is working with us to develop a sustainable procurement policy. They are impressed with my colleague, June Davies, who runs our Chartered Institute of Purchasing procurement programme.

11.10am: Our chairman, Ed Oliver, and deputy vice-chairman, Vincent Owen, arrive to take me to Warrington. It is the Chambers of Commerce Northwest annual lunch with Steven Broomhead at the Northwest Development Agency. Over lunch, I have a great chat with the chief executive of Lancaster Chamber, and we exchange some notes on policy activities. One of their members, a former TV producer and now coffee specialist, tells me about his business that he had bought and transformed. I promised to purchase some coffee from his website.

3pm: Back in the office. Catch up with my team – Kush has been to a primary care trust meeting where they discussed “commissioning culture” and Esther has just returned from a transport conference in London, where she was banging the drum for high-speed rail connectivity for Liverpool. Terri, our most recent team addition courtesy of the Future Jobs Fund, had already left for the day but left me a great message entitled “today’s goings-on”, which made me chuckle.

3.30pm: Check the details for an event tomorrow evening. We are hosting a welcome and launch event for a new Chamber member, called Natural Folk.

It is a company of Indian origin opening a British office and has chosen Liverpool as a base. We are helping them to meet some contacts in the city.

4pm: Catch up on my e-mails – they do build up if I’m out and about, and I return a few calls from the day.

5.15pm: Leave the office to go to Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre. I am a board member and we have our monthly board meeting tonight.

Like many small businesses, we have our work cut out for us at the moment.

7.30pm: Head for home. TV and the sofa are beckoning. James has gone out to see his daughter so I have full control of the TV – excellent.

Later, watch Madmen with James. I’m pretty sure the people who tried to bring in the Control of Smoking in films will have something to say about this programme.