BBC Antiques Roadshow coming to town!

Fiona Bruce

13 SEPT 2012. 09.30am-16.30pm

BBC Antiques Roadshow is coming your way! Bring your treasures to the Roadshow experts in Events Square and the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. If you have large pieces of furniture and/or bulky antiques you‘re unable to carry, we may be able to help. Write now enclosing your address, telephone number and a photograph, if possible.Closing date for letters/emails: Tuesday 4th September Antiques Roadshow, BBC, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR Email: antiques.roadshow@bbc.co.uk. 

More information on our website.bbc.co.uk/antiquesroadshow. Antiques Roadshow asks for 14 days notice if you need a sign language interpreter.

BEN AINSLIE’S LONDON 2012 GOLD MEDAL WINNING BOAT COMES BACK HOME

Olympic games may be over but there is one golden star from London 2012 who still has her moment to shine.

Rita, Ben Ainslie’s loyal Finn from the games is returning to National Maritime Museum Cornwall after helping Ben win his incredible fourth gold medal, cementing him as the most successful Olympic sailor in history.

Together, Ben and ‘Rita’ have won three Olympic Gold medals, in Athens, Beijing and now London and their partnership has become legendary.

Rita’s home, when she’s away from Ben, has been the Maritime Museum in Falmouth, along with Ben’s gold medal winning Laser from the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Visitors will soon be able to see all of Ben’s gold medal winning boats in the main hall of the Museum forming an installation in honour of what Cornwall’s great man has achieved.

The boats will be on display together as soon as Rita makes it back from Weymouth – expected in the next couple of weeks. They will feature in the heart of the Museum until the end of the year where they will then be ‘suspended’ in the Museum’s flotilla of flying boats.

“It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, Rita’s coming home…”

Falmouth BID Updates

SPLASH 2012 7-16^th Sept
Significant efforts undertaken regards this new creative event for Falmouth in order to raise profile of Falmouth and drive additional footfall:

·         15,000 A5 flyer inserts into Falmouth Packet (today's edition) and West Briton (last week)

·         Bus shelter posters are in place, shop window posters we’ll distribute next week

·         The 16 page guide has been produced and looking good! 10,000 will be distributed next week. In the meantime do browse it here SPLASH GUIDE

·         Substantive PR effort with local and regional articles having appeared and due to appear over next few weeks

Falmouth Week

Clearly Falmouth Week is progressing well that includes a very good Music on the Moor event which the BID is providing support for, liaising with Pubs United on that initiative. Our support also ensures the event’s marketing and PR continues to grow and develop.

Falmouth.co.uk

We are seeing some significant figures in terms of unique visits to the BID funded and managed official website for Falmouth. We are also working well with the Visitor Information Centre to ensure its growth and visibility remains strong. This month we will see over 35,000 unique visits. 

Falmouth Oyster Festival

I am liaising with Pubs United to look at ways BID can support the Oyster Festival even more by hosting events around The Moor among other things. More to follow on this..

Best Town Award

You may have read that Falmouth has been shortlisted for a Town of the Year award. Richard Gates and I helped facilitate the judges visit and we are now further promoting Falmouth and the reasons behind our short listing as we speak, to maximise even further, the profile of the town.