Recent News

Invite to take part in the Truro Food Festival on Wed 25 - Sun 29 September

The organisers of the Truro Food Festive would like to work with food and drink businesses in Truro to enhance the event. The event organiser is offering Truro city centre hospitality businesses a 10% discount off a pitch. To apply go to: https://www.trurofoodfestival.co.uk/applications. To be involved by offering ticketed events in your premises as part of the programme and be included in a map and marketing for the event (E.g. a café could host a cheese/coffee tasting session) email the event organiser at: stewart@cornwalleventcabins.co.uk.

Truro Rangers awarded CSAS Powers

The Truro Rangers that we arrange and fund now have Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS) powers. This means that they can now stop individuals and take down names and addresses of those related to anti-social behaviour incidents to identify offenders which can then be handed on to the police.

Summer Floral Displays

The summer floral displays and hanging baskets, which we joint fund with Truro City Council, have started going up. Thank you to the Parks Team at Truro City Council who have done a great job.

Shop Watch Meeting in July

All Truro businesses are invited to attend the next Shop Watch meeting, which will be held on Tuesday 6 August 10am at the Truro BID Offices, First Floor, Truro Community Library.

Shop Watch meetings provide businesses with a chance to share city centre crime related topics, local knowledge and issues with other businesses, Truro's anti-social behaviour officer, the police and Truro BID.

Truro Volunteers Day on Sunday 21 April

The event was a chance to find out about local volunteering opportunities in one place, on one day. Truro BID supported the Truro Volunteers Day by lending out our gazebos.

Spring 2024 Truro BID Printed Newsletter

The printed Spring newsletter, which is for everyone working in the City Centre has been delivered to businesses and has gone out with Truro BID levy bills. Copies of the newsletter are also online here.

Bunting

The colourful bunting that we fund and install to improve the appearance of the city centre is up for the spring and summer season!

Truro Children's Day - July 2024

We will be bringing Children’s Day back to Truro City Centre for the seventh year, on Saturday 6 July, with lots of mostly free entertainment and activities for families to enjoy.

Truro Classic Car Show - July 2024

The Truro Classic Car Show will be back on Sunday 28 July, those wishing to exhibit their motorcycle should email sian.knights@trurobid.co.uk. The car exhibition is unfortunately at capacity.

The BIG Truro Market - from March 2024

Hosted by Truro Farmers Market and Cornwall Shop Small, this takes place on the last Saturday of the month from March to October. We are continuing to support Outdoor Markets by lending our colourful gazebos.

City Clean Up 8 & 9 March 2024

We organised the seventh Truro City Clean Up event, in association with Newham BID, on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th March. For more information, see our webpage.

Christmas 2023

We delivered Christmas events in the city from Friday 24 November. Please see our webpage for more details.

Autumn 2023 Truro BID Printed Newsletter

In October we hand delivered the Autumn newsletter to Truro busineses, which is for everyone working in the City Centre. The newsletter features a handy Christmas events listings and copies are also online here.

Truro Rangers

We started working with our current security resource provider in October 2023, and now call this resource the Truro Rangers.

The Magic Tenner

We brought the Totally Locally Magic Tenner to Truro from Saturday 7 to Saturday 21 October, posted on @magictennertruro on Facebook and had listings of the £10 deals on www.visittruro.org.uk.