We want Sutton to be Engaged and Attractive to visitors, businesses and new investors.

We work hard to ensure our district is an attractive, vibrant and safe environment where people don’t just want to visit, but want to stay!

Your BID delivers a wide variety of footfall driving events and makes sure our town feels and looks like it’s taken care of as the heart of its community.

  1. Deliver two main focus events each year -The Sutton Science Festival and the Christmas Lights Switch On. Find Out more about our events here https://enjoysutton.co.uk/whats-on/
  2. Develop our #Lovesuttonbiz ‘Keep It Sutton’ campaign, supporting local spend in our town centre and promoting our businesses on our @enjoysutton social media networks.
  3. Partner with our shopping centres and businesses to promote experiential activities and offer support in event delivery, like Folk in the Park, to drive footfall.
  4. Deliver graffiti cleaning and/or gum removal.
  5. Deliver and maintain a green planting scheme, protecting our green areas and focusing funding on increasing greening for our Town Centre.
  6. Work with partners and businesses to manage problem areas and provide additional road and pavement cleaning.
  7. Lobby for further improvements to the public realm.
  8. Engage with landlords about activating empty units, such as window ‘wrapping’ and pop-up uses.

 

What’s coming 2024 and beyond

Friends of Sutton High Street

In Spring of 2024 we will be looking to engage with local community groups, volunteers and businesses to develop a ‘Friends of the High Street’.  We feel this will encourage not only business ownership of our space but also that of residents. These friends will assist us with maintenance and community engagement through our green planting, graffiti removal, events and other key projects. To find out more about this, keep an eye on our news updates.

Sutton – Culture

We have a wealth of creativity in Sutton, which sits in our town centre but also other parts of the borough . We are keen to bring those creatives to the heart of our town centre to assist in the delivery of events and projects and assist us in shaping a cultural and creative space for our businesses and visitors to enjoy. We have been lucky enough to work with organisations like ‘The Sound Lounge’, Sami Art, Chaos, and other networks to deliver crafting, live music and other activities for our community. In 2024 we will be looking at ways to enhance this further.

Safer Spaces

We want everyone who comes to our district to feel safe but also supported in crisis. We will be working with local support organisations, national schemes and key partners to deliver an ‘umbrella’ safe spaces scheme which will provide training, signposting and support information for businesses to be able to give a safe space to anyone visiting our district that finds themselves in need of help.