Two new Taste Trails have been created for the Taste Cumbria food festival which takes place on Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 September, with launch events including a comedy night, beer festival and pop-up restaurant on the Friday.
The aim of the trails is to guide visitors to various areas of the town, using brightly coloured signage. It would be great if you could put items in your windows to reflect the different colours on the trails. The different zones and their colours are below. Hope you have a great Taste Cumbria weekend. Suzanne Elsworth (Taste Cumbria PR)
The meeting in September discussed 'what next' for the chamber with options for:
Putting the chamber into hibernation and keep the funds for emergency use
Finding a new chair and other exec members to continue the chamber on to work on some schemes with a smaller pot as the emergency fund and balance for schemes and ideas
An idea to have a 'new rebranded chamber' split/company set up in addition to the chamber
It was suggested that a survey of what members want is conducted to bring the results back to a meeting in October.
On the 5th August 2017, CN Events supported by Allerdale Borough Council will be returning to Main Street in Cockermouth to host Cumbria’s biggest free street party!
Our objective for the event is to drive footfall to the town and its businesses and provide a one day “festival” themed street party. Suitable for the whole family, we have two stages, fairground rides, kid’s arts, crafts and workshops and a selection of Cumbrian food traders.
Last nights meeting discussed the survery results so far. Given the results and the discussion, we will be pausing delivery of any more marketing at this time that was previously outlined and discussed for delivery.
We are exploring ideas to utilise someone for social media posts on behalf of the town/chamber on a trial over the summer as a paid service and will review results.
The Commission has now completed its review of Allerdale Borough Council. A full copy of the Commission’s report and a summary of its recommendations are available on our website, www.lgbce.org.uk. An interactive map of the final recommendations is available at https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/.
A quick reminder of the meeting on the 12th at 6pm at the Bush where we will review current results of the survey. If you have not done already, help us to understand what you want from the marketing, if anything, by taking 30 seconds to fill in these simple questions: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QD9XLV9
Alongside the Cumbria Life ads and email newsletters from last year, we are looking to continue the campaign this year. We need to establish the want/desire and need for ideas - please take 30 seconds to complete this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QD9XLV9
Marion Bowman, the chair of the board of Trustees at Kirkgate Arts, has asked me to write to invite the members of the Chamber of Trade to a reception we are having on April 20 at 6pm to celebrate the launch of our new live-streaming service. This new development at the Kirkgate means that we will be able to show the best of national and international theatre, opera, music and other events, live via satellite, beginning with the Old Vic’s production of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ on April 20, following the reception.
Next meeting Monday 11th September 2017 6pm at the Bush
Anyone wanting to get involved and support the town, please let us know
Thanks to a couple of people, we now have an active @CockermouthTown twitter account. This is a public facing (not business to business) account looking to promote whats on, the tour of Britain, events and what to see and do. Please follow, retweet and help grow this account for everyones benefit. https://twitter.com/cockermouthtown
Please follow the link below for information on a new scheme where businesses, charities and social enterprises in Allerdale can apply for grants of up to £3,000 to get better broadband.
