Events activity and the BID’s involvement
As I’ve mentioned before, the BID is involved in funded or
extensively supporting all Falmouth’s main festivals:
Pendennis Cup – BID provided PR support, working with
Pendennis to gain further national coverage for the event and Falmouth. Several
national journalists were down as a result, with good national coverage to
follow.
SPLASH 2012 – the new BID organised and funded
creative festival is really taking shape. Over 12 authors including several
national award winners supporting the Book Festival, award winning plays across
the town, leading south west artists creating light and sound installations and
nationally important exhibitions. Look out for colourful bus shelter adverts,
20,000 A5 flyers to follow early Aug, A4 window posters for businesses first
week Aug and a 16 page guide nearer the event. All this backed up by extensive
PR effort to promote the Festival and of course Falmouth. So far local coverage
in the Packet and West Briton with more to follow over the next few week. You
can listen to a Radio
Cornwall interview here and view the schedule here
Fal Week – BID is giving extensive support to enable
this key Festival to develop further. Liaising with Pubs United, BID will be
supporting a comprehensive Music on the Moor event.
Oyster Festival –BID will be giving PR support which
will ensure maximum national and regional coverage. In addition we are
currently looking at ways to support via new activities in other parts of the
town
Website
An update on Falmouth.co.uk, the BID funded and managed website
for Falmouth of course. The official destination website for the town with
consistently over 25,000 unique hits per month. As a BID business, you are
eligible for a FREE page, another benefit which if you had to pay would be £200
per year. So if you haven’t take up this offer I would encourage you to do so
as it is an excellent way to further promote your business. We have meetings
later this week to map out future development to further secure its position
over the next three years. The website is a huge marketing asset for the town
so I would urge you to take advantage of it!
Sarah Newton meeting
Another reminder that we have been co-ordinating with Sarah
Newton’s office to arrange another session with Sarah to discuss issues such as
business rates. This session will be taking place on Thursday 19th
July 3.30pm in the Council Chambers on The Moor
Car parking
To reiterate Richard Gates’s comments thank you for your
responses. We will be reviewing all the feedback and taking this to meetings
with Cornwall Council in the near future.
