Celebrate Christmas with HammersmithLondon

Get your Christmas presents wrapped for free in the Christmas Cabin!

To make the festive planning a little easier, the Christmas Cabin will be featuring again on Lyric Square curtesy of HammersmithLondon. This will take that extra strain off you as shop as you can have your purchases specially wrapped up in festive paper for free.

Each person is allowed up to four items and all you have to do is show the receipt to prove that it was brought in the Hammersmith area. The cabin will be set up next to our giant tree and underneath the path of lights which will be provided for the area.

Peppa Pig made a very special guest appearance on Saturday 3rd December to host the annual Christmas Tree lights switch on event, in Kings Mall shopping Centre.

The month long event extravanganza also featured FREE entertainment from various acts and entertainment pieces borne out of Hammersmith including heavenly sent sounds from various Christmas choirs, graffiti artworks display and an a capella feature (China Soul). Join HammersmithLondon in celebrating this festive period to its fullest.

WISE UP with HammersmithLondon

Wise Up was an event bonanza with a strategic aim of engaging with the business community by providing community awareness and crime prevention advice to all. The two day event (16th and 17th November) took place on the Lyric Square and invited employees of the business world to:
Wise Up...… with crime prevention advice
Wise Up…... with our Book Swap
Wise Up…... to the Olympics Games
Wise Up…....with Dr Bike

Wise Up...… with crime prevention advice
Crime prevention advice was delivered in conjunction with the MET Police, in addition to a crime prevention workshop.

The workshop on Thurday 17th November, was very much informative about the serious bag dipping crime which is on the rise in Hammersmith town centre. The MET police successflly gave the warning to all shoppers of Hammersmith to ensure thay have in place preventative measures to combat this new wave of crime and provided useful tips to avoid being victim of such a crime. A crowd engaging demonstration took place in the afternoon to show how easy it is to be a victim.

The message was very much: "Don’t be a victim of crime: our police officers will give you crime prevention tips… and see if you can avoid our phantom bag-dipper…"

Wise Up.....with Book Swap

Books for Amnesty kindly donated an assortments of books for various reading levels.

All kinds of books were brought along to be swapped! From your old blockbusters to your heavy novels such as "War and Peace". No book was excluded. This two day event on the 16th and 17th November was well turned out and received excellent feedback. The "swap" event proved to be a popular way to mix books, writers and the reading public in the past.

Wise Up....to the Olympics Games

Reduce, Re-time, Re-route, Re-mode

Next summer the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be coming to town, with the Olympic Games taking place between 27 July and 12 August and the Paralympic Games running from 29 August to 9 September.

Public transport and roads across London will be impacted and will operate differently. This will affect residents, suppliers, business owners and employees travelling around London.

Travel Advice for Business (TAB) is working with businesses across London and beyond to help them prepare for the transport impacts of the Games. The TAB team will be attending the ‘Wise Up’ community event to provide advice on travel throughout the Games.

To find out about the information and support available from Transport for London, visit www.tfl.gov.uk/2012 .

Wise Up.....with Dr Bike

Dr Bike is a free check up and service surgery hosted by two professional mechanics and included the follwing services:
FREE Bike Check
FREE Bicycle Service/Maintenance
FREE Advice on More Major Repairs
FREE Puncture Kits
FREE Bicycle & Road Safety Training Information
All appointments were set up in the lead up to the two day event with registrations for a 15 MINUTE repair slot with Dr Bike to have your bike marked against theft at the same time. Easy!

Yoga and Pilates Classes - November 2011

Following a warm reception, the first course of the eagerly anticipated Yoga and Pilates course of the Autumn and Winter term has now finished. The course had a fantastic take up this time round, following on from the success of last year. Employees found that the 45 minute sessions alleviated stress levels by breaking up the day to day work routine. Class-goers also found that they felt more revitalised when they returned to work and had a more positive outlook dealing with work matters.

The second part of the Autumn / Winter series started on Tuesday 1st November (Pilates) and Wednesday 2nd November (Yoga) and run over a 6 week period, finishing on Wednesday 7th December.

For more information and to register your attendance for this six weekly course due to start up gain in the New Year, please click here

Please note that classes are only available to employees of BID business.[/i][/b] If you are not sure whether you are eligible, please contact Grace Nelson by email or call 0208 741 8157

London 2012 Travel Advice workshop. 19 October 2011

Reduce, Re-time, Re-route, Re-mode was very much the message coming out of yesterday’s well-attended Olympic Travel Advice workshops, in association with Transport for London.

With the two-hour workshop tightly targeted to the impact that the Olympic Route Network will have on the busy roads, rail, tube and buses right here in Hammersmith, Rose MacArthur from London2012 (the company organising the Games) lost no time in revealing the sheer scale of the Games. Her initial 40-minute presentation pulled no punches:

• With an extra 8 million people loading down the network, the hub of Hammersmith will be severely affected
• Workers coming in and out of Hammersmith will find their conventional commute severely affected
• Imaginative solutions will be required for all levels of attempts to conduct a normal working day

The four main issues that Rose encouraged all businesses to think about was how the games was going to affect Staffing, Deliveries, Customers and Business Travel. The 2 hour workshop also included an interactive group activity which was notable for the communal desire to share advice and suggestions, consider their own business and the issues that will mostly affect their individual operation’s supply chain and in the wider scheme of things – their sector.

The consensus was that previously, the thinking by most businesses was very much, “It’s not on my doorstep, therefore it will not affect me”. Rose McArthur proved that this way of thinking is WRONG and precautions need to be taken now so that your business and customers would not suffer or take the brunt of the ricochet effects from the Games. “Take nothing for granted with your supply chain!” was an oft-repeated phrase. She concluded the workshop with two case study overviews of SMEs where interventions had already been put in place to mitigate any potential complications that would arise.

For more information about the Games and how you will be affected, please visit www.london2012.com/traveladviceforbusiness

19 October 2011 - Olympic Travel Advice Workshop presentation is now available for download below.

HammersmithLondon Halloween Half Term week. 26 - 29 October 2011

Over the Halloween week residents and children on half term break in Hammersmith made the most of the Halloween Festivities organised by HammersmithLondon. The highlight of the free activities which included ghouls, gravestones and cauldrons on Lyric Square, was the popular Pumpkin Hunt Competition.

40 business took part in this years scavenger like Pumpkin Hunt and an overwhelming figure of just over 450 people attended the spooktacular Halloween cabin. The cabin was buzzing with herds of little children, teenagers and parents who all wanted a peice of the action! Visitors to the cabin were greeted by a somewhat "scarrific" wicked witch of Hammersmith, who handed goodie bags and sweets to all those dared crossed her path!

Two local young residents commented "We enjoy [HammersmithLondon's] events throughout the year so much. Especially the Easter Egg and Pumpkin Hunts. You're doing such a great job"

To see all the lovely pictures from this year's event, click here.

Mary Portas Successful Guide to Retailing

An inspirational programme for shop owners and managers.

The Mary Portas Guide to Successful retailing scheme was designed to meet the need of small business owners and managers of independent retail businesses.

There are 7 masterclasses in total in the series which coverevery stage of creating and running a successful retail business, and each one will include hints and tips from Mary Portas herself on how to improve business performance. All master classes delivered will be interactive, accessible and supported by real life case studies and interviews with arange of independent retailers. There will be other retailers present in the workshops to allow for ideas to bounced off one another and collaborative ways saught together to improve business presence and growth.

For more information, please visit Work Zone Events and Training

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