Purley Businesses have overwhelmingly voted in favour of establishing a Business improvement District (BID) in the town. This is after an 18 month campaign set up by the Purley Business Association to create a BID to help improve Purley. The Purley BID scheme has successfully been voted in, the requirement was to meet 2 criteria
Great ideas for Purley Fireworks night was the British BIDS Annual conference 2015. What a great event it was as well. Really nice meeting other similar BIDs from around the country and understanding issues and the great ideas that they have. Met up with Bromley BID whose Ballot closed on the 5th November as well?
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
Purley’s bold plan to become a better place to live, work and shop have taken a huge leap forward with Croydon Council’s decision to back plans for a local Business Improvement District (BID). “This is great news,” said BID driving force and Purley Business Association (PBA) Chair Simon Cripps, “now we can ask local businesses
The newly launched Purley Business Improvement District has been nominated for the Business award in the 2015 Croydon Champions. Based in the High Street, the company was founded three months ago and had its official launch to coincide with the beginning of the Purley Festival at the end of June. Co-founder and chairman Simon Cripps,
MORE than 8,000 music lovers flocked to ‘Purley Festival’ last weekend to enjoy two days of predominately sunny weather and enjoy the Celebrations. This was the fifth annual, community volunteer-run festival featuring a silent disco, 40’s themed cocktail garden, kids areas, circus entertainers and much much more. The main stage was headlined by jazz-funk with
Purley High Street high fines Purley BID is amazed at the high amount of fines that were placed on visitors to the high street. Not being the biggest street in the borough it still demands the second highest amount of fines of around half a million pounds in one year. This is obviously unfair and
After 2 years work the Purley Business association has secure GLA funding to support it plan to become a Buinsess Improvement District. The feedback we recieved was that the Proposal was very comprehensive for the size of townh that we represent. This Grant from the GLA of almost £25,000 with be combined with £10,000 loan