Town updates

Falmouth Spring Festival

The most colourful and vibrant Spring Festival yet, has drawn to a close:

·  20,000 daffodils distributed throughout the town!

·  100 volunteers giving up time to Spring Clean numerous areas including a lovely gardening job at Dell Woods

·  5,000 revellers at the Cider & Folk Fayre

·  500 runners for Run Falmouth, raising thousands of pounds for Cornwall Hospice Care in the process

·  Scores enjoying themed guided walks over the fortnight

·  Dawn French in the middle of it, who gave us great praise for re-enacting the Paint The Town Yellow Day for her as part of the historic procession

Thank you to Jacqui Owen at Gyllyngdune Gardens in particular, as well as all the organisations and volunteers who gave up time to support the efforts.

You can view a small selection of imagery from the week here – FALMOUTH SPRING FESTIVAL 2015

ZestiFAL

We’ve got some very exciting announcements over the coming weeks on Falmouth’s newest festival. We have more sports and activities showcased than you could wave a cricket bat at, so make sure you are following the ZestiFAL Facebook page for the latest news.

ZestiFAL Launched!

We're delighted to announce an amazing new festival for ‪#‎Falmouth‬ for 2015! 

ZestiFAL will celebrate Falmouth's active lifestyle with an incredible array of have a go sports and activities. 

Our open spaces from The Moor and Events Square, to Kimberley Park and Gyllyngvase Beach, will be transformed! Follow and like the new ZestiFAL page and the amazing schedule will follow shortly.

FOLLOW AND LIKE ZESTIFAL ON FACEBOOK HERE

Falmouth Spring Festival

12-29 MARCH 2015. Celebrating Falmouth’s open spaces, terrific coastline and gardens…

As profiled on the BBC’s Great British Garden Revival programme in January 2015, this wonderful early season festival brings together the Falmouth community like no other. The festival brings an explosion of colour, life and activity to the town....

http://www.falmouth.co.uk/search/events/falmouth-spring-festival/ 

A Falmouth Christmas

Lights, street theatre, markets, live nativity, running Santas and more besides mean that that Falmouth is the town to visit this year for Christmas!













Check out the schedule here - Falmouth Christmas

Falmouth Spring Festival

Falmouth Spring Festival schedule is taking shape rather nicely.

The festival brings an explosion of early colour, life and activity to the town. Paint the Town Yellow Day sees thousands of daffodils being donated to hundreds of businesses by the school-children of Falmouth, Run Falmouth is the town’s annual half-marathon running event in partnership with Cornwall Hospice Care while the two-day Folk & Cider Fayre will bring great food, drink and music to Events Square.

Don’t miss it!

Main activity dates so far:

12 March - Paint The Town Yellow Day

12-13 March - Community Spring Clean Up days

14 March - Games & Fitness on The Moor

15 March - Run Falmouth half-marathon event

21-22 March - Spring Flower Show

28-29 March - Folk and Cider Fayre on Events Square

Keep an eye out via www.falmouth.co.uk for the schedule as it builds! 

Government Visit

The Falmouth Town Team hosted a visit on Wednesday 15TH October, by a senior team from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) who came down to Cornwall to review the active BID scene that exists here. There are seven Business Improvement Districts now operating in towns and areas of Cornwall, representing and supporting over 3,500 businesses - the highest number of BIDS in any one local authority area in the UK, outside of London. There are over 180 BIDs in the UK.

The visit is part of a UK-wide tour of BID towns and cities and will inform a report to be submitted to Government at a later date, on the UK high street and BIDs, highlighting areas of good practice as well as challenges to growth.

The Town Team for Falmouth (Falmouth Business Improvement District working together with Falmouth Town Management) has been operational for five years and is the only such public-private partnership in Cornwall. The Town Team is the management resource for Falmouth, delivering the town’s major festivals, destination marketing campaigns, public realm improvements, business training and more.

The visit follows on from a week in which Southend BID visited the Town Team to look at the Falmouth partnership model and contact made by Belfast City Council who are also looking at the Town Team partnership idea.

SPLASH 2014

We have another lovely little activity as part of SPLASH called the Face of Falmouth. Head to the new North 55 Gallery on Church St during SPLASH week & contribute to a community-led picture! The finished painting will then be auctioned off with the proceeds going to the RNLI

Full SPLASH rundown can be viewed here - SPLASH 2014