BID Updates

Richard Wilcox, Falmouth BID Manager

BID AGM & Presentations
Many thanks to those businesses in the town who made the time and effort to attend the BID AGM and presentations. Some excellent feedback regards the ranges of projects delivered in 2012 and exciting plans for 2013. Thanks also to Camborne BID who made the time and travelled up to hear the exciting work being undertaken here in Falmouth. BIDs can only be effective in the towns/cities they operate in (145 currently operating and growing) when businesses engage and support the efforts to improve their town. Browse the substantive BID presentations given by Richard Wilcox and Directors Jilly Easterby, Richard Thomas and Chairman Nigel Carpenter

Love Falmouth, Shop Local

The BID will be instigating a ‘Love Falmouth, Shop Local’ initiative in Dec as another further support for local businesses and will be looking for widespread support from businesses to spread that message. Thanks to one or two businesses including Wavelength One for their proactive ideas here. More details will follow in the local media but this involve window posters, off and online promotion in an effort to further highlight Falmouth’s vibrant main shopping areas. Furthermore, we will have the Shop Local, Falmouth for Business image exhibition in The Poly 21 Jan-4 Feb as another creative way of celebrating local business. All this will be put onto Falmouth.co.uk, supported by our PR efforts and backed up further with more exciting ideas in 2013.

Falmouth Food & Drink Week

More info to follow of course but I will look to run the second Falmouth Food & Drink Week 9-17 Feb 2013. The campaign has a simple but effective message – cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants, delis can be creative as they wish with their offering under the banner £10 or under. There’s no cost attached for businesses of course, BID will further support with promotional material, off and online promotion but please as per last year get in touch with me if you are interested in getting involved. The more we have, the more effective the campaign which in turn means greater impact, footfall and so on.

Falmouth.co.uk website further stats

Just following on from the 750,000^th unique visitor milestone for the Falmouth.co.uk website which you would have read about,  some other useful stats on how it has helped support businesses (this is in the presentation above)in 2012-

·         Over 165,000 page views for the accommodation section in 2012

·         Equates to around 2,000 per establishment

·         The website, BID working with the Visitor Information Centre, plus their excellent work has subsequently led to 150 accommodation bookings that has been worth £20,000 to the local economy in 2012

Falmouth Top Town Interview
Interview on Source FM - click on link given, interview with BID and Richard Gates regards Falmouth Top Town Shortlisting, BID’s business support and promoting Falmouth efforts

Falmouth Safe
You may have read in the local media last week about this very good new scheme which Falmouth BID is helping to support and will be involved in. Read more here - SAFE PLACES.