Whether you are offering Mother's Day discounts or takeout cream teas, hampers for Mum, chocolates, cards, gifts, flowers, cocktail sets, haircut vouchers or pampering promises, PLEASE email us your offering so we can add it to our special Mother's Day shopping list. Remember, this is the PERFECT time to get your business back on the radar in time for reopening. Please email kathy.moulton@canterburybid.co.uk with your offer and an image and we will do the rest
Canterbury BID Board Member Elections are being held from 15 March to 1 April. This is YOUR chance to vote for who you want to sit on the BID board to represent you and to help shape the BID strategy for the city centre. At the beginning of every BID term, we invite any levy-paying business or organisation in the BID area to nominate themselves to serve on the Board until the end of the BID term (September 2024). Due to COVID-19 there has been a delay in the process as we have wanted to ensure we get the maximum turnout and give you the opportunity to have your say. We are delighted that we have twenty-one candidates for the fourteen positions available. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the election is being run online by an independent company called Choice Voting. Find out more HERE.
In order to help businesses navigate through the new rules for trade, travel and business, Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce is hosting a highly interactive EU Transition: Ask The Experts session, where the content will be led by YOU! During registration, you will be asked to submit any questions you have around the current EU Transition for their panel of experts. The event is being held on Tue 16 March 10.30-12.30pm. Find out more HERE
Kent vs. Lancashire Thu 22nd Apr - Sun 25th Apr 2021 at 11:00 LV= Insurance County Championship The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury
From 12 April hospitality business will be able to serve food and beverages outside. If this requires tables and chairs being placed on public pavements outside, you will need a licence from the council. Please click HERE to apply for one. Applications cost £100 to cover the council's costs and the council has a maximum of 14 days in which to decide an application, otherwise it is automatically granted. Find out more here
12 April will see the opening of non-essential retail; personal care premises such as hairdressers and nail salons; and public buildings, including libraries and community centres. Indoor leisure facilities such as gyms will also reopen (but only for use by people on their own or in household groups); as will most outdoor attractions and settings including outdoor hospitality venues, zoos, theme parks, and drive-in cinemas. Read more here
We have been informed that the city's Park and Ride services will be back up and running for Monday 12 April -in time for reopening. More details to follow....
BID networking is back! In partnership with Girlings Solicitors, businesses within the BID area are warmly invited to Canterbury BID's Virtual Networking on 21 April from 5:30-6:30pm. We will provide you with behind the scenes updates from the new Hampton by Hilton Hotel, an amazing chocolate tasting session with our very own Madame Oiseau (goody bags posted to you), an opportunity to meet the new BID Board and catch up with other local businesses in our exclusive breakout rooms. Places are limited so please email Emily HERE to book.
Kent vs. Lancashire Thu 22nd Apr - Sun 25th Apr 2021 at 11:00 LV= Insurance County Championship The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury
28-30 April:Thomas Becket- Life, Death & Legacy Conference, Canterbury Cathedral (online) Join Canterbury Cathedral for three days of exciting papers, from 28-30th April 2021, examining the history, visual and material culture, archaeology, architecture, literature, liturgy, musicology, and reception of Becket’s cult at Canterbury, across Europe and beyond, with keynote papers by Rachel Koopmans, Paul Webster, and Alec Ryrie. Be guided by experts on a series of virtual tours, taking you right into the heart of Canterbury Cathedral and the surrounding area, allowing you to get up close with some of the stunning architecture and artefacts from Becket’s long and storied history. The conference will cost £25 per day, £10 per day for students, and free for a limited number of students of Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent. Click here to get your tickets. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at canterburybecket2020@gmail.com
Following a jaw-dropping 41,000 votes cast by the public, the shortlist for this year's Taste of Kent Awards is now being reviewed by a panel of experts and the winners will be announced at a virtual award ceremony on Tuesday 11 May 2021. The event is organised by local food and drink champion, Produced in Kent, and has seen a phenomenal interest from the public all very busy nominating their favourite businesses in a variety of different categories. Canterbury businesses shortlisted include The Ambrette (Kent Hospitality Business of the Year), Garage Roasted and Lost Sheep Coffee (Kent Non-Alcoholic Drink Product of the Year). Find out more and see those shortlisted HERE
