Past Events

Every 4 weeks, the Chair of Shopwatch, the Police and a member of the Shrewsbury BID team hold a safety briefing, which members of Shopwatch are invited to attend to share information to make the town a safer place.

Every 4 weeks, the Chair of Shopwatch, the Police and a member of the Shrewsbury BID team hold a safety briefing, which members of Shopwatch are invited to attend to share information to make the town a safer place.

We will be holding a FREE Instagram training workshop at 5.30pm on Tuesday 16th July at the Greenhouse, First Floor, Shearmans Hall, Milk Street.

The session will be a crash-course in what to post to Instagram and how to make it look as good as possible.

If you would like help setting up an Instagram account, please arrive at the Greenhouse between 5pm and 5.20pm and a member of our team will be able to assist with this first step.

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Shrewsbury BID's annual meeting will be taking place on Tuesday 14th May.

The meeting is an opportunity for members to hear from the BID Team about the Company’s activity and achievements during the last year, and to see our exciting plans for BID2.

Board Director elections will also be held for new company board members. Positions are available for owners and senior managers, based locally, who are able to contribute around four hours a month.

To arrange an informal chat about a Director role, please email seb@shrewsburybid.co.uk. The online application can be completed here and must be submitted by 5pm on Friday 3rd May.

To be able to stand to be a company director and vote on Shrewsbury BID company business, you are required to complete a membership form. The form registers you as the named contact and voter for your business.

This year Shropshire Council's Business Continuity Awareness Week will be taking place 13th-17th May 2019 with the theme of “investing in resilience”.

Once again, Shropshire Council will be offering local businesses the opportunity to participate, free of charge, in an exercise taking place during the week which coincides with the undertaking of a national exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to give local businesses the opportunity to test their business continuity management arrangements in a safe exercise environment. This enables gaps in planning and resilience to be identified.

The format of the exercise is as follows:

• Information (called ‘Injects’) will be emailed out to participants with two or three questions on how they would respond;

• Participants consider the information and the questions and respond by return;

• There are 2/3 injects per day between Monday and Friday;

• At the end of the exercise all participants will be notified that the exercise has ended – ENDEX;

• A hot debrief will be forwarded at the end of the exercise to see what went well with your arrangements, what didn’t go so well and what could be learnt going forward.

All responses are collated and anonymised and a Post Exercise Report & Action Plan is provided to all participants.

Shropshire Council would like to start a list of participants for this year's exercise so if you or someone in your organisation/company would like to take part, please send their name and email address by Friday 3rd May 2019 to: Jane.cooper@shropshire.gov.uk

Whilst political uncertainty and the growth of online shopping may be two of the latest challenges in the retail industry, our towns and city centres have always been shaped by a series of technological, social and political revolutions.

The purpose of this talk is to examine how, after many years of mono-functionality focused upon retailing, our centres are experiencing something of a renaissance, and remerging as multi-functional ones, supporting leisure and recreation, employment, tourism, heritage, culture, housing, employment, education, health and wellbeing as well as retail. But how should retail adapt to this new normal?

Speaker

Simon Quin is the Institute’s Director of Place Management and is Practitioner Editor of the Journal of Place Management and Development. He was Chief Executive of the Association of Town Centre Management for six years where he oversaw a tripling of membership, making it the world’s largest organisation of its type, the introduction of Business Improvement Districts to the UK and the development of the Purple Flag awards.

He has served on the Boards of the Washington-based International Downtown Association and of Town Centre Management Europe (TOCEMA). He was a founding Director of the UK’s National Skills Academy for Retail. He serves on the Project for Public Spaces (New York) Leadership Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He has spoken on issues relating to place management in over twenty countries and, when not travelling, he is an active gardener and land manager.

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Following the successful launch event last year, the next Business Leaders’ Breakfast event on Wednesday 14 November 7.45 am – 10.30am at the Shropshire Conference Centre, Shrewsbury.

There is still time to sign up for an exciting update on the progress that has been made since last year’s launch of the Economic Growth Strategy 2017-2021 and the many exciting developments that are helping Shropshire Council to fulfil their ambitious growth plans for the county.

Speakers for the morning include:

Stuart Ashton, Head of Planning and Iain Thomson, Associate Director, Partnerships & Communications of Harworth Group Plc. Harworth is one of the largest property regeneration companies in the West Midlands and their presentation will include news on the emerging plans for the former Ironbridge Power Station,

and

Fiona Piercy, Midlands Engine Programme Director who will speak on the current regional context and the key role Shropshire can play in the region’s vision for the future.

 

Refreshments will be provided, along with an opportunity to network.

Please confirm your place by registering on the following link:

Business Leaders' Breakfast: Shropshire - County of Opportunity

Future of Shrewsbury Network invites you to join us for a ghost tour of Shrewsbury's spookiest spots. We will leave The Square at 6pm for a walking tour of the town centre, ending at Henry Tudor House for drinks. Please bring clothes suitable for standing outside and walking. Tickets cost £10 + booking fee Events are open to young professionals that work in Shrewsbury.