Purley BID’s Spring Convention took place in May. Key themes included employment, property, advice, fly tipping, health & wellbeing, legal services, Croydon Council Safer Streets, arts & crafts, reducing business costs, charities and the Purley Rotary Club. Simon Cripps, CEO, outlined the BID’s achievements, including the 33% reduction in business rates for smaller retailers and
8th June 2019 12-4pm Purley Food & Drink Festival is a fantastic event. Bringing Purley to life, there is something for everyone. Great food and drink from Purley-based shops, cafes, takeaways and restaurants. Excellent entertainment throughout the event, including live music, free activities for children (sand art, face painting, Mad Hatter’s tea party) and much
Thursday 16th May 2019 1pm-4pm at Christ Church, Purley All Purley businesses are invited to our Spring Conference to meet the BID team and see what we have planned for 2019/2020. A range of exhibitors will also be showcasing their offers that can improve business in Purley. Come and join us to : Meet other
Saturday 20th April 2019 Easter Fair 2019 Purley Baptist Church hosted a fantastic Easter Fair on Saturday 20th April 2019. With brilliant sunshine, live music, dance displays, entertainment and fun craft activities for children, the event was a great success and was well attended. Thanks to the Purley BID businesses face painting, sand art and
Purley Baptist Church are hosting Easter in the Square 2019 on Saturday 20th April from 3-5pm. Purley BID will be running free activities, including an Easter egg hunt, face painting and sand art. Come along for some Easter fun!
Best Festive Window Display Competition 2017 Our judge noted over 80 displays around the whole area as part of this year’s competition looking at them in the day time and at night before picking our three winners. First Prize Rowland Brothers in the High Street Second Prize Rawlings Opticians in Brighton Road Third Prize Get
Happy new year to you all. Well we had a great 2018 and let’s just hope that 2019 is just as good or Purley. Events wise we had a great Food festival again in June, We were really proud that like previous food festivals it was a celebration of all good things to do with
Every year Purley BID runs a “Be Active” Campaign in January and February as part of our year-long Live Well in Purley project. This year we will also be supporting Mind In Croydon campaign called Red January. http://www.mindincroydon.org.uk Mental health is closely associated with physical health so we are really pleased to be supporting Mind and the great
Purley BID help to resolve dumping of general rubbish and lack of recycling facilities in Russell Hill! Following engagement with business owners, residents, local Councillor and Croydon Council, the Purley BID team help to resolve dumping of general rubbish and lack of recycling facilities in Russell Hill. Let’s work together to keep Purley clean and
It was great to see so many members represented at the conference which took place on 23rd October at Christ Church Purley and sharing Purley BID’s current projects and future plans. Following a warm welcome from Marlon Johnson (Chairman), Simon Cripps, CEO of Purley BID, outlined the structure of the team, the budget the team