Cultivate London fundraised last year November to kick start their circular economy programme ‘Acton Green Waste Solutions’. They raised a whopping £21,216.

Cultivate London will collect green waste from the local community and process this within a purpose-built biodigester to produce liquid fertiliser and compost.

To find out more about Acton Green Waste Solutions click here.

Ealing is competing with other London boroughs to be the London Borough Of Culture for 2025. If successful, there will be an additional £1.3 million from the Mayor of London to help launch exciting programmes of activity for all ages.  

If you would like to see more places for arts and culture, more spaces for creativity in our communities and more events taking place across the borough, then Back the Bid.

To read more click here.

In 2023, Your Acton BID held 7 business breakfasts at locations within the Acton BID. The venues that hosted us were ActOne Cinema, The George & Dragon, and David Lloyd Leisure Centre. Each breakfast averaged over 35 attendees representing a range of local business owners and education providers as well as councillors and officers from Ealing Council. We partnered with West London Chambers who supported us with the logistics for marketing the event.

The breakfast mornings offer an opportunity to meet with other local business owners and learn about what we have to offer as a BID.

We also invite local businesses to present at these events and would welcome contributions from BID members to talk about what they do. Feel free to contact Natasha for more information.

REMINDER

Your Acton BID will be hosting the next upcoming breakfast networking on Friday 19^th January 2024, in collaboration with the West London Chamber of Commerce.

When: Friday 19^th January 2024  

Time: 8:30am - 10:30am

Where: David Lloyds, East Acton Lane, London, W3 7HB

***It is free for BID members! We look forward to seeing you there!

Click here to reserve your space!

New Pavement License legislation

Details can be read here.

In brief, the £100 (Covid) pavement license expired on September 30th, 2023, regardless of when you applied.

The new pavement license will be £350 for existing license holders for a period specified by the local authority up to a maximum of two years.
For new pavement licence applications, the fee is £500 for a period specified by the local authority.

The council website still needs to be updated, but the concern is whether the yearly charge will be maintained or changed to monthly or quarterly.

*Please note that the council website is not updated with new price at the moment, but the application form and process is still the same. All supported documents will need to be emailed to StreetTrading@ealing.gov.uk.

Your Acton BID is offering free in-house training for businesses who have 15+ employees. We offer a Level 3 Emergency First Aid, Level 2 Fire Marshall, Level 2 Food Safety, Mental Health First Aid and Level 2 Health and Safety in the workplace. All courses are accredited by an awarding body and is bought to you by AID Training.

If you are interested in hosting a training course for your staff members, please contact Natasha. 

Testimonials

‘Fab training provided by the Acton BID! Ray was awesome, very engaging and enthusiastic. The team found that it was a great refresher and they also found out some new information. Very useful and lots of fun! One of the team said it was a very memorable training.’

** From Cape Acton **

We have been working with Place Support Partnership (PSP) by offering all businesses within the BID area free sessions with cost-saving experts. PSP helps reduce business costs by reviewing your bills and identifying where savings can be made. It is a free service to all Your Acton BID members.

If you are interested and want to save money, please email Susana Crespo to book an appointment as they will be back in Acton on Wednesday 14^th February 2024. If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact us at info@youractonbid.co.uk.

Congratulations again to all the businesses that took part in the mystery shop in November/December. We have received a great response from businesses about how changes will be or have started to be implemented to improve their processes and customer service.

The Customer Service Awards Ceremony will be held on 25th January at 17:00! We will provide more information to businesses who participate next week.

If you would like more information about the mystery shopping initiative for the next selection or to discuss your report please click here to contact Na'quelle.

For the month of December, the Acton BID reported various issues such as: 

• Over 25 issues of fly tipping incidents. 
• 1 counts of graffiti on business shop fronts and street furniture. 
• 2 other types of incidents, including streets not clean, pavement issues and abandoned bicycles. 

My Local Bobby team has attended various incidents which includes: 

• 9 incidents related to beggars. 
• 2 incidents related to Antisocial behaviours (i.e., street drinking, noise disturbance, etc.). 
• 11 incidents related to crime (shoplifting and theft). 

The MLB team has continued to assist businesses with various Shoplifting incidents and dealt with multiple Anti-social behaviours. They are continuing to work with the Met Police and the Safer Neighbourhood team to gather intel and provide information on people of interest in Acton.  

DID YOU KNOW....

It has been 20 YEARS since the legislation set up BID's in England. Since then BID's have grown at steady pace and as of last week, there are 340 BID's across the UK. 

We are here to support you, so please feel free to contact us for any queries or information.