Social media engagement is an important metric to consider when building an online presence. While most want to increase the size of their audience, they often fail to increase their social media engagement as well. Join us whilst we explore how to grow your social media reach and how to increase social media engagement. Book your place
This 1-hour virtual session will take you on a whistlestop tour of sustainability – what does it mean? Why should you care? How can it benefit your business? Save money, make money and protect our planet, as we delve into a best practice sustainable events guide and leave you with actionable takeaways to put into practice for your own events. Book your place
A Visit Kent Workshop, presented by Visit Kent and Dr Xavier Font Visit Kent will be joined by Dr Xavier Font, Professor of Sustainability Marketing at the University of Surrey to discuss the six steps that small businesses and destination managers can undertake to design and market sustainable experiences. Visit Kent team will also present their plans to support the reduction of seasonality (encouraging year round visits instead) through sustainable experiences. Book your place
This session has been designed to help you to get a tight grip on the subject of Business Rates in Canterbury and will highlight the government’s current support packages for businesses. The session will be delivered by Sadie Furner of Civica, the company that operates a shared management of business services with Canterbury City Council and oversees the collection and administration of all Canterbury City Council’s Business Rates. Book your place
This Valentine’s Day, join us to find out how you can get involved with the new Visit Canterbury platforms. Run by Canterbury BID in partnership with Visit Kent and Canterbury City Council, get an overview of content and seasonal campaign plans for the year ahead. Book your place
Join Stephanie Martin for an business email newsletter writing masterclass on Wednesday 8 June, 9-10am, via Zoom (and yes, we will be picking up tips too!). The session will cover what makes a good email strategy; how to choose and present content; how to maximise open rates and why email newsletters are so important when it comes to communicating with our audiences. To book please email Emily Wells
Create real relationships with your customer and measure real results with this hands on session with Sinead Hanna and Abby Sales from Pillory Barn. This will be an opportunity to learn, take-away and take action based on what the team know works. Selling the Sizzle through Social Wednesday 9 March | 9-10am | Via Zoom To book please email enquiries@canterburybid.co.uk
Are you overwhelmed by talk of plastics and carbon? Think you and your business can’t make a difference? Too busy dealing with the day to day to deal with the ‘what if’ of sustainability? Helen Burridge of Place Positive will give you a quick overview of the issues and provide real actions to take away for your sustainability journey. CLIMATE CHANGE, CARBON, AND BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE EVERYWHERE Friday 11 February, 10-11am (via Zoom) To book please email enquiries@canterburybid.co.uk
Civica operates a shared management of business services with Canterbury City Council and oversees the collection and administration of Canterbury City Council's Business Rates. This will be your perfect opportunity to ask Sadie Furner of Civica all your questions about business rates. BUSINESS RATES SUPPORT Tuesday 8 February, 9-10am (via Zoom) To book please email enquiries@canterburybid.co.uk
This session will be delivered by supply chain specialists, to ask your thoughts on a “You Shop, We Drop” business case. Essentially the idea is to provide shoppers with a 'hands-free shopping experience' so they can combine shopping activity with all the hospitality, cultural and leisure attractions the city has to offer. Great for them -and great for the local economy! While similar schemes are already up and running for fashion outlet malls and enclosed shopping centres, this will be the first design a business and operating model fit for city-wide adoption in Canterbury. You or someone from your team are welcome to join us for the Customer Value Proposition and Logistical Workshop on Thursday 3rd February from 9-10:30am. We’ll spend 90 minutes working together to crunch through crucial aspects of the scheme, including: Which of your customers do we expect will gain most value from the service? How much will they pay for it? When should customers expect to collect/receive their shopping? Where to locate collection points and the delivery hub? Who will be best placed to spearhead getting the scheme started? What will be the criteria to measure success of the scheme by? To book please email enquiries@canterburybid.co.uk
BID NETWORKING - THE CAFE CULTURE EDITION There's still a few spaces left for our virtual Networking on Tuesday 25 January 5.30-6.30pm (via Zoom). Settle in for an hour from the comfort of your home or office, and hear updates from local cafe-owners, take part in a cafe-themed quiz to win £300-worth of prizes (with max 50 people there's VERY good odds!), a best-looking mug competition plus Biscuit Bingo. You'll also get introduced to loads of other businesses! To book, please email HERE and you'll be sent the link
The next meeting of the Canterbury Forum, for Canterbury residents and councillors, will be on Monday 17 January at 7.00 pm, and will again be online. The main agenda items will be: OLD PARK: This is the area between Sturry Road and Littlebourne Road which is a much-valued area of woodland and grassland, of very special ecological and historical interest. A Friends of Old Park and Chequers Wood group has recently been formed to safeguard and protect it, and attached is a leaflet which the group has produced. This agenda item will be an opportunity to hear and discuss why it is so special, what the threats to it are, and the questions it raises about possible routes for a Canterbury eastern by-pass. TOWN COUNCILS: There is a lot of active support in Whitstable for seeking to create a Whitstable Town Council. As that campaign goes forward it will raise the question of whether there is also a case for a town council for Canterbury. This agenda item will be an opportunity to hear about the plans for Whitstable and think about their implications for Canterbury, and the pros and cons of a Canterbury Town Council. WINCHEAP BY-PASS: KCC officers […]
