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Welcome to
Sutton Coldfield
It is always good to see businesses investing in
our town centre. So far this year we have
welcomed a whole host of new businesses to the
town, most recently the Nero e Bianco fashion
boutique on Birmingham Road and INI Mobile in
The Gracechurch Centre.
Perennial favourite, The Station, has now
reopened following an extensive refresh, much to
the relief of most of us thirsty town centre
workers and commuters! We’d also like to extend a
warm town centre welcome to Berkhan Dincer, the
new owner of Don Diego.
We’re delighted to have a
beautiful selection of
hanging baskets now in
situ on High Street, along
The Parade, and up
Birmingham Road as far as
the cinema. Funded by
the BID and part of our
‘green and clean’
commitment, we’re looking
forward to seeing them
blossom throughout the
summer!
Rewarding Visits
competition
prizewinner
Sutton resident Andrew
McKeown was the lucky
recipient of £100 to spend in
the town centre after entering
a prize draw run by the BID’s
reward scheme partners,
Rewarding Visits. Over 500
people entered the draw,
which was run to promote
the Rewards In Sutton
Coldfield scheme.
Congratulations Andrew!
Mike Bushell (right) with winner
Andrew McKeown
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Dates for the diary
Just a reminder…
• Craft Markets (first
Saturday of the month)
• Farm & Produce Market
(second Friday of
the month)
• Bert ‘n’ Gert’s artisan
markets (third Saturday of
the month, May to
September)
• 26 September 2015 –
Expo (BID levy payers can
exhibit free of charge)
• 15 November 2015 –
Christmas light switch on
• 21 November 2015 –
Santa arrives in town
You will hopefully have
noticed the ongoing work
we’ve been doing to develop
the BID’s three strategic
initiatives – Restaurant
Quarter, Sutton Coldfield
Nightlife and Rewards In
Sutton Coldfield.
We’re actively promoting
each of these initiatives
through the Sutton Coldfield
Observer and on billboards
throughout town. Our website
has undergone a refresh and
we also operate four social
media profiles which exist
to serve the local community,
providing daily information,
special offers and
much more.
Make sure you’re following
all four profiles to ensure
you’re up to date on all the
latest town and BID
information. We would
welcome feedback you have
on any of the BID brands.
Below: In July we hosted acts from the
successful Jazz and Blues Festival
Sutton Coldfield Town
Centre Nightlife
Twitter: @suttonnightlife
Facebook: /SuttonNightLife
Sutton Coldfield BID
Twitter: @sutcoldfieldbid
Facebook: /sutcoldfieldbid
Rewards in Sutton Coldfield
Twitter: @suttonrewards
Facebook: /suttonrewards
The Big Hoot
Chamber of Commerce
Expo 2015
Hanging Baskets
News
Restaurant Quarter
Twitter: @SCTCRQ
Facebook: /SCTCRQ
www.suttoncoldfieldtowncentre.co.uk
This is the newsletter of Sutton Coldfield Town Centre BID Ltd, Reg. No. 7846722
Registered address: 1 Trinity Place, Midland Drive, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B72 1TX
20.15 July 2015
Hanging
Baskets
Summer 2015
www.suttoncoldfieldtowncentre.co.uk
If you’ve been out and about in the town centre over the
last week, you’ll have noticed that the Big Hoot owls have
landed. And aren’t they a stunning bunch?
The BID is delighted to announce its
support of the new Sutton Coldfield
Chamber of Commerce, part of Greater
Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.
The hugely popular BID initiative,
Expo, is set to return to the town
on Saturday 26 September.
Join the Big Hoot
in Sutton Owlfield
this summer
New Chamber
of Commerce
Popular
Expo
returns
The Big Hoot, as has been
widely reported, is a terrific
public art exhibition – the
biggest of its kind to ever be
held in Birmingham – that will
see 89 beautifully designed
giant owls
appear
overnight in
locations across
the city.
It has been
created by Wild
in Art, a worldrenowned public
art specialist, in
partnership with
Birmingham
Children’s
Hospital, which
will benefit
when the owls
are auctioned off
at the end of the
exhibition.
The Big Hoot is
intended to be visual
and fun and it will see
people become ‘owl
spotters, travelling around
the city to see the different
designs – especially
families – in addition to
attracting tourists into
the city.
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And thanks to the
BID, the Gracechurch
Centre, Moor Hall Hotel &
Spa, Dignity PLC, Birmingham
Metropolitan College and
the West Brom Building
Society, Sutton Coldfield is
playing a leading role.
For 10 weeks from 20 July,
the town is host to the Sutton
Owlfield trail, a parliament of
seven Big Hoot owls – each a
towering 1.8m tall – and 14
smaller owlets, each lovingly
created by local school
children. The trail will stretch
across the town centre as well
as into Sutton Park and the
grounds of Moor Hall Hotel.
Over the six-week summer
break, The Gracechurch
Centre and BID are hosting
a variety of fun and free
activities for kids of every
age, all packaged up under
the Sutton Owlfield banner.
We have also published a trail
map and are sharing news of
everything linked to the Big
Hoot in Sutton Coldfield
via a bespoke Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/
suttonowlfield. Keep your
eye out for a very special
edition of the Sutton
Observer on 24 July too…
This is a tremendous
opportunity to attract
custom to your shop, bar,
restaurant or business: we
urge you to familiarise
yourself with the event now
and think about how you
can get the most from it.
For more information visit
www.thebighoot.co.uk.
The new Chamber will be
operating from the BID office
in Knights House from 20 July
and will provide a new and
dynamic ‘connectivity’ and
business growth proposition
for Sutton businesses.
The Chamber is dedicated
to connecting businesses to
opportunity. Members join in
order to raise their profile,
grow their businesses and be
represented at local, regional
and national level. With over
2,300 member companies
within the group and a
calendar of over 200 events,
membership will provide
huge opportunities for any
business and of any size or
sector. Sutton Chamber, while
having the advantage of being
part of the larger group, will
focus on its local businesses,
helping them to grow and be
more profitable.
If you would like more
information, please contact
the Sutton Business
Development Manager
Julia Gray at j.gray@sutton
coldfield-chamber.com.
the town centre’s calendar. There are many
brilliant businesses, charities and groups in
the town, but they don’t always have the
opportunity to engage with Sutton
Coldfield residents, workers and visitors, so
Expo provides them with the perfect way
to do just that.
Expo takes place down the length of
The Parade and will run from 9am to 5pm.
Sutton Coldfield-based organisations or
businesses who wish to take a space at the
Expo should contact Mike Bushell at
info@suttoncoldfieldtowncentre.co.uk.
Expo is the annual event that provides
local organisations with the chance to put
themselves in the spotlight and promote
what they do. Members of the public are
invited to attend the free event and learn
more about the variety of things to do
and support in their town.
Now in it’s
sixth year,
Expo has
become a
popular
event on
Above: Julia Gray
Left: Business Services Director
of Birmingham Chambers of
Commerce Russell Jeans and
BID Manager Mike Bushell
Above: Shoppers inspect one of Sutton
Coldfield’s new Big Hoot owls.
Left: Owl statue adorned with an artistic
representation of Sutton Coldfield.
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