Falmouth Updates

Some Falmouth BID updates as usual for you:

Falmouth Spring Festival 14-24 March

• The Festival Guide will be out late next week. I am producing 10,000 copies which will be distributed locally and regionally to promote the town and the event
• 15,000 flier inserts will be in both the Packet and West Briton in the week leading up to the festival
• We now have 90-100 schoolchildren, 100 businesses, 30-40 University students and 4,000 daffs all working together and involved in the Paint the Town Yellow Day on 14 March!
• We have in the region of 90 volunteers and have earmarked 10 sites for the big Spring Clean Day on 9^th March!

·         Full schedule www.falmouth.co.uk

BID Director and support

Thank you for the keen interest shown by a number of businesses in wanting to get more involved with the Falmouth BID and therefore supporting the town. We’ll make an announcement on the new ‘High St Champion’ Director very soon.

St Austell BID

Congratulations to the steering group and to the businesses of St Austell who have voted YES (75% Yes vote) to a Business Improvement District, making it the 5^th town in Cornwall to now have a BID.

Great South West Walks – some info from the organisers

We are contacting you to ensure you are aware of our Great South West Walk in April and May this year.  The walk is to be a relay to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the South West Coast Path Association.  It will  start on both North and South coasts, walking westwards day-by-day and ending at Land's End on May 7th.  Walkers will try and raise money to fund over forty improvement projects on the South West Coast Path.  Full details of our walk on to be found at www.greatsouthwestwalk.co.uk