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Seen, Reported and Repaired

The Purley BID team is working hard to make Purley a better place for everyone. Last month we reported and fixed a broken bench on the High Street and reported an abandoned bike, which has now been removed. Let us know if you notice anything and if we can help. You can also report many

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Make a Difference and Get Active in Purley!

Purley Swimathon, 2017 The Purley Rotary Club is a community led organisation with a long history of serving the local Purley community since 1923.  By combining their skills and resources, members of the Purley Rotary Club work to make a real contribution to the lives of others. Every year Purley Rotary Club organises great fun

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Business Improvement District
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Purley BID Administrator

Role Specification Job title: Administrator Location:  Purley Reports to  Purley BID CEO Responsible for Delivery of Business Improvement District Job summary The Administrator reports to Chief Executive of the Purley Business Improvement District (BID). Main responsibilities: To support the Purley BID delivery team with administration and communications Create Board meeting invites and agenda To maintain the BID contacts

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Let’s make Purley Dementia Friendly Town

Purley is a unique community.  The independent shops and cafes, combined with numerous charity shops and estate agents with a large superstore make for an eclectic mix of visitors to the town centre. There are many people who visit Purley town centre who are living with dementia. We are very lucky to have store owners

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We’re on Croydon Radio

On Wednesday we dropped in to say hi to Croydon Radio and let them know all about the Launch event for Live Well in Purley.  Listen to the pod cast and hear all about the event and the many things that we have going on. From Gardening work shop, living libraries, kids work out and dementia awareness

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More Parking spaces in Purley

Ever since the 2010 Purley Realm improvement project that delivered more trees, electric charge points, cycle facilities some public art in the form of a mosaic outside Astoria court, there has also been a reduction in the number of parking spaces available. This reduced the number of spaces from 42 to 38.  Working with Chris Philp MP, local business owners

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Events for Purley

Following the British BIDs annual conference really gave some good advice on creating events to improve business within Purley. Katie Coombes from MayNineteen looked at 3D approach which is Discover, Design, and Deliver.  Discover: Let’s look at the objectives first what is the point of the event, what does success look like? How will we

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Purley residents criticise council’s ‘worrying view’ of town after decommissioning of car park lifts

PURLEY businesses and politicians have criticised the council for having a “worrying view” towards the town after the final working lifts in the multi-storey car park were decommissioned. The council said the 30-year-old lifts were taken out of use because it is “increasingly difficult to source spare parts”. The Advertiser understands the car park has

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