Latest News from Altrincham Unlimited No Images? Click here Altrincham to host start of the final stage of the Tour of Britain cycle raceAltrincham will host the start of the final stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race on Saturday 14th September. Altrincham Unlimited, the BID will be coordinating the town centre activities with Trafford Council, and will be working with the businesses on this incredible opportunity for the town. The 2019 OVO Energy Tour of Britain, which takes place from Saturday 7th September to Saturday 14th September, is Britain’s biggest professional bike race and part of the UCI Europe Tour. The eight-day race will take the world’s top teams and riders across a 1,250-kilometre route. More information will follow on how your business can get involved. Huge National TV & Radio coverage for AltrinchamWe would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came together - Altrincham's businesses, Trafford Council & their contractors, local community groups, 'Our Altrincham', volunteers and schools - for all their hard work in ensuring the town successfully delivered the pilot project for 'Perfect Day'. Altrincham was given the opportunity to be the pilot town for the ‘National High Street Perfect Day’ following on from the Government's High Street Report (December 2018). The idea of ‘Perfect Day’ was for the whole town to come together for one special day to work towards making the town 'look & feel' the best it possibly could. The positive PR generated for the town was phenomenal, with broadcast features on BBC 5 Live 'Wake up to Money', BBC Radio 4 'The Today Programme', BBC Breakfast, BBC News Channel, BBC Radio Manchester, Granada Reports and Sky News. Online and print coverage included the following: Fashion United: Drapers Magazine: Altrincham Today: http://tiny.cc/altrinchamtoday2 http://tiny.cc/altrinchamtoday3 http://tiny.cc/altrinchamtoday4 The Messenger: I Love Manchester: http://tiny.cc/Ilovemanchester Business Manchester: http://tiny.cc/BusinessManchester WDYT: http://tiny.cc/WDYT Gov.uk: http://tiny.cc/Govuk The Business Desk: http://tiny.cc/BusinessDesk New Start Magazine: http://tiny.cc/NewStart Altrincham's 1st Community High Street FestivalThe 'Perfect Day' culminated in Altrincham's 1st Community High Street Festival, bringing together Altrincham's businesses and the community in a high street celebration. Thank you to everyone who was involved - over 30 Altrincham businesses, 7 local school & community choirs (involving at least 200 local people). The atmosphere of the day was perfectly captured in a video produced by the BID, please watch and share it on your social media, to date it has had over 8k social media views: Altrincham's Footfall IncreaseAltrincham's footfall is measured by Springboard independent footfall monitors situated in the town centre. The figures below put Altrincham's footfall into context against National figures and other North and Yorkshire towns. This represents an incredible achievement for our town. BID Funded Deep Cleaning Continues
CPR Training KitThe BID business BrightNewMe recently underwent in-house CPR (resuscitation) training. Everyone learned the techniques of chest compression (to keep the blood moving around the body) and mouth to mouth resuscitation. BrightNewMe has invested in a kit including ten mannequins from the British Heart Foundation which they are happy to lend to other BID businesses doing CPR training, in return for a donation to the British Heart Foundation. CPR saves lives. In Norway, where CPR is taught in schools, people who collapse with a heart attack outside have a one in four chance of survival. Here in the UK, where CPR is routinely not taught, survival is only one in ten. For more information email: info@brightnewme.co.uk Stay connectedKeep up to date with news from Altrincham Unlimited on social media. |