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SPRING 2022

  • ‘De-paved’ flower beds along Norwood Road planted by local volunteers and schools
  • Jobs Board service improved, expanded and re-launched
  • Spring Festival collaboration with Feast & Norwood Forum, funded from Welcome Back Fund 
  • Tulse Hill bridge mural completed

WINTER 2021/2022

  • Levy-paying businesses continue to take advantage of our Free Photography service 
  • Businesses helped to access Omicron & ERF funding
  • £130K funding won for ‘Making High Streets Work’ project 
  • Winter Festival collaboration with Feast & Norwood Forum, funded from Welcome Back Fund

AUTUMN 2021

  • It’s a YES! Station to Station renewed as a BID for another 5 years
  • 26 Norwood Works lamppost banners go up on the industrial estate
  • Happier Healthier Workplaces Week, funded by Design Council
  • Monthly Parkhallo business networking event launched
  • West Norwood bridge mural painted
  • AGM - with leader of council

SUMMER 2021

  • Local Jobs Board launched
  • Campaigning starts for renewal
  • Retail consultant commissioned to work on Norwood High Street
  • £30K Design Council funding won to reimagine health and wellbeing in the workplace
  • £20K GLA High Streets for All Round 2 funding won
  • More businesses helped to access round 3 Economic Resilience Funding (ERF)
  • Oil drum and wooden planters start to appear

SPRING 2021

  • More businesses helped to access Lambeth’s discretionary Economic Resilience Funding
  • Work finally begins on Norwood Works branded murals
  • Work begins on ‘Plants for Pavements’ greening project
  • Preparations begin for renewal ballot in September 2021

WINTER 2020/2021

  • Second Parkhall business surgery (accounting)
  • Collaboration with West Norwood Feast to bring first Christmas market to high street
  • £15,000 Grow Back Green planting fund won for the area

AUTUMN 2020

  • Launch of Free Recruitment Service in collaboration with Lambeth & 3 other local BIDs
  • Businesses helped to navigate through 3 lockdown Tiers with guidance, support and information
  • Business support webinar with Helen Hayes MP
  • Survey of businesses commissioned and run by WeRise
  • First Parkhall business surgery (branding)
  • First online AGM - appointed new board members, Eammon Sweeny, owner of Blackbird Bakery and Helena Riviera, owner of A Small Studio

SUMMER 2020

  • Norwood High Street features in month long series of virtual events for the London Festival of Architecture
  • 15 local businesses ineligible for other government grants helped to get £225,000 Hardship Funding from Lambeth Council
  • Launch of paid for social media promotions of area, including Eat Out to Help Out scheme

SPRING 2020

  • Valentine’s Day competition
  • Effra Women's Business Networking event
  • Savings Advisory Service launched to help businesses reduce utility costs
  • Lambeth public protection and parking teams begin regular investigations and removals of abandoned vehicles on industrial estate
  • Norwood Works rebrand completed, work begins on rollout of murals across the estate
  • Covid-19 pandemic strikes bringing a halt to all projects
  1. 100 + businesses with problems accessing funds receive direct assistance
  2. 100% of 267 eligible businesses helped to get grants
  3. Newsletter frequency 2 x monthly to keep businesses informed & safe
  4. Online Directory launched
  5. Mediation with landlords in rent negotiations
  6. Locally sourced PPE hand delivered until national stocks adequate
  7. Dedicated Covid-19 information page launched on S2S website, with access to news updates and downloadable/printable resources 

WINTER 2019

  • Consultancy management of BID ends and appointment of new BID manager and local support team
  • Launch of cargo bike delivery pilot scheme
  • Collaborative work helps convict criminals responsible for spate of high street burglaries
  • Shop Local marketing campaign for Christmas, door drop to 10,000 local homes of Christmas promotional leaflet and Parkhall Directory
  • Full page advert taken out in Urban Fox Magazine, reaching 80,000 south London residents in print and online.
  • 25 ft Christmas tree in West Norwood and lights put in trees by Tulse Hill station
  • Christmas business networking event at Railway pub
  • Sponsorship of West Norwood Feast Christmas Lights event, with Station to Station businesses given free stalls

AUTUMN 2019

  • Second high street promotional map produced and handed out at railway stations and on the high street
  • Parkhall Directory printed and copies handed out at Feast markets  and on high street
  • Local architect firm R2 appointed alongside branding agency Strudel to rebrand the industrial estate

SUMMER 2019

  • Visits to businesses on the KIBA to establish issues and coordinate efforts to resolve them:  
  1. Working with Lambeth Parking to remove abandoned vehicles (AVs) from the KIBA and to make the removal of AVs a top priority for Lambeth
  2. Working with Veolia & Lambeth Enforcement to keep the streets clean and follow up and fine/prosecute serial fly tippers
  3. Working with Lambeth Regeneration team and local organisations such as NPA, NF & NAG to support positive building developments in the area.
  • Production of first of series of high street map leaflet with local offers to encourage shoppers to use the high street - 5000 of these were handed out at local train stations and the high street.

SPRING 2019

  • Negotiations with Thames Water, Transport for London and Lambeth Highways to get best possible outcomes for the high street when 13 months of necessary mains replacement work happens.
  • Parkhall business directory commissioned.

  • Forging working links with local organisations such as Norwood Planning Assembly (NPA), Norwood Forum (NF) and Norwood Action Group (NAG) to represent the business interests of the local area.

WINTER 2018

  • Shop Local marketing campaign for Christmas, door drop to 10,000 local homes of leaflet highlighting all the great Christmas Shopping ideas on the high street.
  • Advocacy with Streetworks and Lambeth council to reinstate some 1 hour parking lost to pavement widening.
  • Links made with Parkhall Workspace - advocacy with Workspace and local councillors on parking issues, establishment of WhatsApp group for internal communication.
  • Christmas networking event for businesses and new Christmas lights and two trees.

AUTUMN 2018

  • Establishment of high street trader WhatsApp group for businesses to communicate with each other, S2S and local councillors.
  • Monthly trader meetings with invited traders, themed around topics of interest to businesses i.e. marketing, Thames Water roadworks, business rates, policing, building developments etc.

SUMMER 2018

  • Station to Station supports Fest Norwood – a ten day multi-arts festival celebrating our heritage, community and local businesses and promoting well-being.
  • Three new planters installed at Tulse Hill Station Rise, funded with Lambeth and maintained by STS.
  • Commissioned the Shop Local blog on West Norwood Feast's redesigned website, profiling a new West Norwood and Tulse Hill business each month.

SPRING 2018

  • We work with Veolia and volunteers to deliver West Norwood Gateway Garden at the neglected junction of Knights Hill and Chapel Road.
  • Station to Station supports Tulse Hill and West Norwood Wonder – a project to increase accessibility for engagement in the arts to combat loneliness.

CHRISTMAS 2017

  • Station to Station work with local volunteers to adorn the high street with balloons in celebration of Small Business Saturday, encouraging consumers to support local businesses.  We promote a series of special offers through social media and poster campaign.
  • Station to Station commissions local business Floral Hall to deliver West Norwood’s Christmas tree, and work together with Feast to fund the annual Christmas Lights event.

AUTUMN 2017

  • Station to Station supports CuriousSE27 – a curated trail of work by South London artists displayed in
    local businesses and venues.
  • Customer service training is delivered for employees of local businesses – the first in a series of sessions.
  • Working with Lambeth Council we scope Government funding opportunities to develop workspace in West Norwood’s Commercial Area. The BID leads on engagement with local stakeholders.

SUMMER 2017

Station to Station coordinates ‘Food Week’ working with local venues and West Norwood Feast to promote the area’s diverse gastronomic offering.

SPRING 2017

  • Our monthly networking meetings begin.
  • Station to Station partners with First Mile to offer businesses a subsidised recycling service and lower cost waste collections.
  • We support the popular Free Film Festival, funding printing costs and helping to promote the events.

CHRISTMAS 2016

The BID makes its mark with its Christmas tree along with a festive programme of events in the town centre.

AUTUMN 2016

  • Our five year term commences! Get ready for positive change in the area.
  • A board of directors is established to oversee the BID projects, board members are voluntary representatives from a range of both independent and national businesses with premises in the area.
  • Our new website and social media channels go live. We will use them both to communicate with our business community and to tell the world about our great place!

JULY 2016

Station to Station works with TfL and Lambeth Council to install hanging baskets on lamp columns across the town centre, brightening the area for all.  The baskets are maintained with funding from the levy and replanted seasonally.

JULY 2016

Businesses vote YES to a Business Improvement District for Tulse Hill and West Norwood.