30 MINUTE WELLNESS WALK
Did you know spending time outdoors can reduce stress and boost your mood?
To celebrate mental health awareness week, here is our go to route for a peaceful 30-minute stroll through some of the city centre’s beautiful green spaces.
SMALL GRANT SCHEME
We have launched a small Grant Scheme, offering up to £18,000 to boost the city centre by supporting creative, innovative projects and events that will drive footfall and benefit city centre businesses.
For more information including eligibility criteria click here!
FREE LEARNING PLATFORM ACCESS
We’re working in partnership with SEEDL.com to give all levy-paying businesses and their employees FREE learning platform access.
The platform offers unlimited training across 200 live and on demand courses, including Leadership, Customer Service, Health and Safety, Ask Angela and more.
If you are a levy paying business or an employee who works for a levy paying business you can create an account here!
FLOWER POWER!
We’ve collaborated with local garden designer, Andrea Connor, to refresh our city centre planters – and what a result!
As a seasoned gardener with a deep love for nature, Andrea has shared her vibrant vision and expert knowledge to help us deliver our commitment to making our city centre a more vibrant and uplifting place to be.
You can read more on the project here.
FREE SUPPORT TO REDUCE BUSINESS COSTS
We're excited to be partnering with Place Support Partnership to help save levy paying businesses money on their business costs.
This includes savings on new contracts, advice on navigating the cost-of-doing business crisis, and how to achieve the best value on essential services like gas, water, insurance, electricity, telecoms and merchant fees.
The team will be in the city centre along with our City Centre Ambassador, Terry, on 11th January and have appointments available to help support you to:
Improve cashflow Improve profitability Free up capital to invest Become cost efficient Email contact@peterboroughpositive.co.uk to find out more and to book your free 1-2-1 appointment.
WELCOME PACK
In October 2023, we introduced a new welcome pack that our City Centre Ambassador could hand to new businesses that open within the Business Improvement District.
The pack contains a wealth of information that new business owners in the BID area may need to know, including useful contacts and our latest newsletter, an introduction to Peterborough Positive and a welcome from our Board of Directors.
If you're a new business in the BID area and haven't yet received your welcome pack, email contact@peterboroughpositive.co.uk.
FREE CITY CENTRE MAPS
After being without a city centre map for so long, Peterborough Positive decided to create their own - free for all to use - to help visitors find anything from a car park or taxi rank to the nearest tourist information or WC.
To encourage people to spend longer in our centre, we’ve also detailed the names and locations of every blue plaque in the area,along with fun facts and background details on eight historical buildings across the city centre.
The maps are available from the Tourist Information Centre at Peterborough Museum and the Town Hall, or available for digital download here.
CITY CENTRE CLEAN-UPS
One of the BID's main priorities is to make the city center a cleaner and safer place, so the Peterborough Positive team have organised a weekly clean-up of the city centre, with help from Peterorough's Community Payback team.
Every Friday, the team are out and about focusing on a different area in the centre, litter picking, cleaning grafitti, removing stickers, weeding, and more. This is an ongoing project that is already making a huge difference to the appearance of Peterborough city centre.
CATHEDRAL SQUARE PLANTERS
To bring some of the beauty back to Cathedral Square and its adjoining spaces since the removal of flower troughs and hanging baskets, we launched our new flower planter project, Flower Power!, in May 2023.
We lead a collaborative initiative with St John’s Church, HMP Peterborough, West Town Primary Academy, Marshfields School and Peterborough City Council, to create a colourful space to eat, drink and shop once again.
You can read more on the project here.
Student Discount Directory
We’re working with local businesses to create a directory of student discounts available across the city centre.
Check out the directory here!
If you are a business and would like to add your offer, please email contact@peterboroughpositive.co.uk.
If you are a business and would like to add your offer, please email contact@peterboroughpositive.co.uk.