- Urban Picnics in Gloucester -

We are promoting in partnership with Visit Gloucester, the Urban Picnic Spots in Gloucester. With many restaurants, cafes and eateries only having a limited space outside, we think this is a great way to allow your customers to enjoy their favourite food to take away in their favourite city!

Visit Gloucester have written a blog highlighting some great places to eat alfresco in the city https://www.gloucesterbid.uk/news/urban-picnic-spots/.

There will be a dedicated page to this on our website soon with a map that shows alfresco eating spots, takeaways, WCs and defibs.

It would be great to get some fresh/new images of your food offering, picnic ware, rugs, reuseable cups etc. that we can use to help promote your business and the campaign online. Please send us any images and we will create social posts with your products. A quote from a business always goes down a treat too!

Feel Good in Gloucester Trail

We Are Destination (King's Walk Shopping Centre and Eastgate Shopping Centre's marketing team) have lots of exciting plans for the summer. However, in order to keep the community safe, they want to plan an event that gets people out into the fresh air for their daily exercise, explore locations around Gloucester that may have been forgotten and bring a sense of togetherness. Therefore, they are proposing to create a trail around Gloucester city centre, having different locations (shops, businesses, museums etc.) as ‘stops’ on the trail which have a clue. By going to all the stops and collecting the clues, each entrant can submit their answer at the finish - every winning entry will be entered into a prize draw to win multiple prizes.

To make this event as successful as possible, we are reaching out to other businesses and attractions in and around Gloucester city centre to see if your business would like to be included in the trail. To participate We Are Destination are looking for businesses that are willing for them to install a window display or external display at your business and offer a voucher, gift or entry as a prize in the prize draw. In return you will receive organic advertising for your business across a range of social media channels and marketing on the trail map, this is also a great opportunity to have people visit your establishment and refresh them on your services.

In addition to the above, We Are Destination are also running a range of paid social media packages to maximise exposure of your business, an offering of which they can discuss direct any tailored opportunities you may require.

Continental Market

The Continental Street Market would love to return to Gloucester this summer, to bring their array of street food and arts & crafts stalls to the city for the weekend. They would like to work with you to make this event as successful as possible for everyone in the city, bringing an extra attraction to Gloucester and increase footfall. I have been made aware of some issues from their last visit, and it would be great if we could offer some feedback and work with them to make this event a great asset to us all.

RESTART GRANTS

The application window for restart grants is now open - please note the council are required to undertake more extensive and robust pre-payment checks on the restart grants, so processing times for these grants may be longer.

Restart Grants offer support to businesses which provide in-person services, where the main services and activity takes place in the business rate-paying premises, in the relevant sectors outlined below - please read carefully before submitting an application.