Passionate about Plants? ....so is Altrincham
This Summer there will be even more reasons to visit Altrincham and stay for longer to enjoy the amazing shopping, restaurants, cafés and bars in the town. Sitting alongside the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, 'Passionate about Plants? ...so is Altrincham', 14th - 22nd July, will provide the BID businesses with a platform to support existing customers and develop new ones. Whether you're one of our town's creative independent retailers or one of our more traditional professional services suppliers, this celebration week of all things horticultural will provide business opportunities. Here's how you can get involved: 🌺'Best in Show' Business Fronts CompetitionTo be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is flex your green fingers and produce a fun and creative floral display in your shop or business window! Dress your windows with the aim of providing an eye catching floral display to passers-by, promoting your business and Altrincham. - The 'Best in Show' will be chosen by RHS judges on Wednesday 18th July and the 'People's Choice' will be voted for on social media.
- Use this as an opportunity to showcase your
business or just an excuse to make your business look amazing!
- Entice new customers with your enchanting window display.
- Enjoy positive feedback on how fabulous the town you have chosen to run your business in looks from your clients perspective.
- Maybe use creating the design as a 'team-building' exercise or a lovely way of 're-inventing' the front of your business temporarily.
- Gain exposure for your business on social media on your own accounts and Altrincham Unlimited's platforms.
The businesses who have already signed up to create a fabulous floral window display
include; The Con Club, Gran T's, Jameson & Partners, Inspire, RMS, Randalls and Idaho. Download a 'Best in Show' Business Fronts Entry Form 🌺Creative workshops and talks from experts- Fascinating and creative talks on all things horticultural.
- Children's activities and workshops.
- Workshops give another great reason for visitors to come into Altrincham, extend their stay and experience all the town has to offer.
🌺Summertime Shopping, Restaurant, Bar and Café Offers- A great way to encourage new customers
- If your business can't make an offer, why not tell your team and clients about the offers so that
they can use them.
🌺RHS Tatton Free Shuttle Bus- A free shuttle bus service will be available throughout the RHS Tatton Flower Show from a floral bus stop at Altrincham Interchange.
- 'Passionate about Plants?...so is Altrincham' will give RHS visitors a reason to stay and experience Altrincham, or to make a return visit, helping to create a new audience for the town.
To find out more or to put
forward an offer please contact: aimee.green@altrinchamunlimited.co.uk
'Explore Altrincham'
Networking Events
As a BID business, you will have received an invitation to ‘Explore Altrincham’ on one of the town's new walking tours. The tours will provide a great networking opportunity for BID businesses, as well as being entertaining and informative! Networking Tour Dates: - Thursday 21st June 5pm
- Saturday 23rd June 3pm
- Thursday 28th June 5pm
- Saturday 30th June 3pm
Please RSVP by the 1st June, to reserve a place for yourself and a colleague by emailing: aimee.green@altrinchamunlimited.co.uk
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Goose Green Festival Save the Date!
This year’s popular Goose Green Festival will take place over the August bank holiday weekend, on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th August. A festival for everyone with an impressive line-up which includes exciting unsigned bands and singers, mixing favourites from previous years with up-and-coming artists, as well as attracting some strong local names. As in previous years, entry to the Goose Green Summer Festival will be FREE of charge, and as well as live music there will be street food and family-focused activities on offer throughout the two days.
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Refill - FREE tap water initiative
Refill is a national, practical tap water campaign that aims to makes it easy, convenient and cheap as possible to fill up your water bottle by introducing refill points on every street. Participating cafes, bars, restaurants, banks, galleries, museums and other businesses simply put a sticker in their window – alerting passers-by to the fact they’re welcome to come on in and fill up their bottle – for FREE! The campaign is designed to reduce plastic pollution and promote healthy hydration by making refilling a water bottle easy, social and rewarding! Costa and Tre Ciccio are already taking part in this campaign and we’d like to encourage more
Altrincham businesses to get involved.
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Business opportunity for Independents
Are you an independent retailer/food & drink or coffee shop that wants to expand? If the answer is yes…. Altrincham Unlimited has been asked by Revo, an organisation that supports the people and businesses involved in the diverse world of retail property and placemaking, if you would like to attend and/or take exhibition space for FREE to promote your product at their event to be held at Manchester Central, 18th-20th September 2018. Attending usually costs in excess of £500 and exhibiting significantly more so a great opportunity to position yourself and your product to 2,500+ key influencers in the retail world looking for business just like yours! For more information contact: erin@revocommunity.org
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Would you like to display award winning artwork in your business?
Trafford College’s art and photography courses have offered their end of year show pieces to Altrincham businesses to display FREE of charge. Please let us know if you have available space, you could be a landlord with an empty unit, a retailer with window space free or a professional service supplier that would like to enhance your working/client environments. You may think if you are a supplier of professional services this opportunity would not be useful for you, but research has shown that artwork in the workplace can increase productivity. Read more here For more information contact: mark.green@trafford.ac.uk
Cardboard Recycling & reduced freight
We have been asked to look at cardboard recycling by a number of businesses in the town and we are also looking at an initiative in partnership with TFGM (Transport for Greater Manchester) that will reduce freight movement on our roads. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if we could save you money, recycle more cardboard only have one cardboard recycling lorry coming through the town each week In order to help us to provide this service we will be asking you to fill in a short survey. The survey will be sent out on a separate email. For more information contact: liam.potts@tfgm.com
The new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) comes into effect this Friday, 25th May. If your business needs support with GDPR compliance please let us know. Also, if you haven't already done so, please confirm that you are happy to continue hearing from us either by opting in via our GDPR email or by emailing us directly. For more information contact:
Aimee.green@altrinchamunlimited.co.uk
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