Hey Acton! Vicki here. I’ve been busy managing the Your Acton BID social accounts, and now I’m coming out from behind the scenes to help YOU market your business online. Your Acton BID is a business improvement district after all, and we want to help you bring your brilliant Acton businesses to the next level with easy and actionable advice that you can implement to grow online. Go on our Instagram page here every Monday for a new tip or trick to help you with your social media, website, digital marketing, and email.

Ealing Council is working with SaveTheHighStreet.org to deliver a series of free support centres for small businesses in Ealing.

Taking place live in person in various locations across the borough, join us for a range of exclusive business support, including:

• One-to-one mentoring, educational presentations and group discussions
• New opportunities for your business - from support programmes to local campaigns, government grants and upcoming events
• Networking with other businesses, local community champions, council officers and support providers over food and drinks.

Register for any of the upcoming business support centres and attend either for the whole day or just for the parts that interest you the most. Next upcoming support centre in Acton will be held at the ActOne Cinema on April 7^th from 9 am to 18:30. 

We have been working with Place Support Partnership (PSP) by offering free sessions with cost-saving experts to help reduce business costs by reviewing your bills and identify where savings can be made.

You can view Place Support Partnership (PSP) energy report on our website, which reflects the current state of the UK wholesale and retail energy markets. This can help you on how you can protect yourself from the ongoing energy crisis.

Ealing Council has been working with local businesses across the borough to provide hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities.

If you'd like to get local people into apprenticeships, the council is sharing its unspent apprenticeship levy funding with Ealing businesses to pay for the training of new apprentices, increase the number of apprentices or upskill existing staff.

We have hidden 28 wooden bunnies around town, inside our brilliant BID businesses. Can you find where all of the bunnies are hiding?

How to play:

Search the High Street, Churchfield Road and The Vale for businesses displaying the Easter Trail poster and head inside to find out the name of the bunny that lives there! Write down the name of the bunny in the boxes given, then fill out your contact details and hand this form into one of the 3 collection points for a chance to win.

Download your map here! You can play from March 30^th until April 18^th. 

Your Acton BID presents a Spring Celebration event on The Mount! More springtime fun, coming right up!

Date: Sunday, April 10^th, 2022

Time: 10 am - 4 pm

Location: The Mount, W3 9NW (in front of the Church and Morrisons)

Join us for an egg-stra special Spring Celebration and enjoy plenty of family-friendly activities, entertainment, and shopping from over 30 stalls from The Aeronaut, Reboutique, Tea Darlings, The Little Gardener, Auntie Bonnie’s and more!

We’re bringing together the best of local so you can enjoy the sunshine in our wonderful town, plus lots of free craft activities for the kiddos to get stuck into. 

Est. 2014, City Harvest collects nutritious surplus food from manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers, and delivers, for free, to 350+ London charities feeding those facing food poverty. City Harvest rescues food, people, and planet by preventing food waste, providing life-changing support to communities in every London borough through food, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste. 

City Harvest tripled in size in 2020 to meet the demand of people facing food poverty, now distributing free food for more than 1 million meals a month.  

Our HQ is based in Acton Park Industrial Estate and we offer AM (8.30-12) and PM (4-8) shifts for volunteers looking to make a real difference. There is more information about volunteering with City Harvest here: www.cityharvest.org.uk/volunteer 

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