MORE THAN JUST BUSINESS by Arrangement with Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Limited: John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock’S the 39 Steps
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SUMMER CALENDAR Music for Youth • 3-7 July A five-day feast of live music! Hear the very best brass, classical, folk, choral and contemporary renditions from the UK’s leading young musicians at Symphony Hall, Town Hall and CBSO Centre. mfy.org.uk Birmingham Cocktail Weekend • 13-15 July A weekend of sampling the best of Birmingham’s cocktail scene! Your wristband gets you access to £4 signature cocktails at great venues across the city throughout the long weekend! The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) • 24-28 July The National Production Company presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). This critically acclaimed play is an irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s 37 plays! oldreptheatre.co.uk The Full Monty • 8 September – 1 August The Old Joint Stock Theatre presents The Full Monty: The Musical as you’ve never seen it before; up close and personal! oldjointstock.co.uk/whats-on Dippy on Tour • Until 9 September The Natural History Museum’s famous Diplodocus, known as Dippy, is taking a road trip to Birmingham. Visit Dippy until 9 September birminghammuseums.org.uk Birmingham Heritage Week • 6-16 September A city-wide festival that celebrates Birmingham’s rich and diverse heritage. Keep an eye on the website for events. birminghamheritageweek.co.uk Moseley Arts Market on the Move • 7 September Once again Colmore BID will be bringing this fabulous market to the cathedral grounds. Visit for an amazing selection of arts, crafts and jewellery, all made by local artists and makers. colmorebusinessdistrict.com/events SUMMER 2018 • FREE The 39 Steps • 8-15 September MORE THAN JUST BUSINESS By Arrangement with Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Limited: John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Tickets from £11 • crescent-theatre.co.uk Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert • 21 September The film in full on the big screen accompanied by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. thsh.co.uk 28 29 Children’s Hospital, Breast Cancer Haven West Midlands and the Birmingham Royal HUNGRY FOR MORE... Ballet. We have also developed a mentoring scheme with students at the University of Wolverhampton and our 5 Star Futures The Team programme works with pupils at Perry Beeches The Academy. Michele Wilby, The Colmore Food Festival is a brilliant BID Executive Director event, it reflects the fantastic food scene in Colmore Life: Managing Editor Birmingham which I try to make the most of. I have attended every year since it started Lucy Elvin, Projects Maker and having the opportunity to sponsor the Colmore Life: Deputy Editor event is great for DWF. I was keen for us to get involved in the event to show our support Mike Mounfield, Projects Manager to Colmore BID and our fellow businesses Colmore Life: Journalist in the area. Philip Singleton, Projects Manager Colmore Life: Journalist Jonathan Bryce, Projects Maker Colmore Life: Journalist Katy Paddock, Projects Assistant Colmore Life: Journalist Claire J. Smith, PA to Michele Wilby Martin O’Neill, Business Analyst Welcome to our summer edition of Colmore Life, we hope you like our new-look magazine. John Jo Von Johnson, This year is an important one for Colmore BID as we move closer to our ballot for BID 3, so you Street Operations Manager will find lots of information in the magazine about the timeline for voting, when the ballot opens “The Colmore Food and when it finishes and most importantly how you can feedback on what you would like Stacey Barnfield, to see in the BID 3 Business Plan for the District. See full details on page 5. On pages 6-7 you Colmore Life: Guest Journalist Festival is a brilliant can read about what we’ve achieved historically and after consultation with many colleagues event, it reflects the from businesses in the District, some of our initial ideas for the next five years. International legal business DWF is the headline sponsor of this year’s Colmore Food Festival. DWF’s Executive Partner for Birmingham, Jon fantastic food scene Another way to hear more about the projects and initiatives we’ve delivered is to come to our Contact Stevens, tells Colmore Life why it is important for DWF to be involved. in Birmingham.” annual meeting on 11 September. Please contact Claire by emailing [email protected] to register your place. Waterloo House, 20 Waterloo Street WF has had an office in Birmingham where we recognise that there is valuable Birmingham is a highly exciting place If you’d like us to visit your businesses to talk in more detail about our ideas for the next five years, Birmingham for more than five years and I cannot local talent and expertise as well as a to be for business at the moment with please contact Claire (email above) who will be happy to arrange this. B2 5TB speak highly enough of this city. thriving local economy. developments such as the arrival of HSBC, 0121 212 1410 DI always tell people that while I am not a a bid to be Channel 4’s headquarters, Enjoy this exciting edition and I hope to see you at the Colmore Food Festival on 6 and 7 July! Brummie, my children are and I am proud The Birmingham office began as a mainly HS2 fast approaching and the 2020 [email protected] of that. It’s over 30 years since I first came insurance-focused office but in just five years Commonwealth Games around to Birmingham and I have worked here for we now have a full service offering with the corner. colmorebusinessdistrict.com almost 20 years. In that time we have all seen particular expertise in the Retail, Michele Wilby the area go from strength to strength and Food and Hospitality; Financial Services; The fast pace of the city has been reflected Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Birmingham offers a huge amount to those and Real Estate sectors. in a very busy year for our office so far – it is Executive Director, Colmore BID Instagram: ColmoreBID that come here to live, work and visit. a source of pride for us that our clients arrive In addition to our work as a legal business at our offices having walked through the Every location where DWF has a presence it is also important to us to be involved in the buzzing Colmore District and that we have is important to us strategically as a place local community and through our charity, the so many fantastic restaurants and bars close through which we provide solutions to DWF Foundation, we have provided grants by that we can all enjoy after work and take Designed by wearespoke.co.uk our clients’ needs, but also as a place to local organisations including Birmingham clients to, to show off our fabulous city. 2 3 APRIL - 6 JULY ANOTHER WHAT DAY IN CONSULTATION WITH LEVY HAPPENS NEXT PAYING BUSINESSES PARADISE... Between now and early July, Colmore Business District will be contacting levy payers and hosting a number of informal workshops; this is your chance to refine the BID 3 ideas and contribute to our business plan. 11 SEPT If you would like to participate, have any questions about what you’ve read, or about the Business Improvement District’s renewel process, please contact Michele Wilby, Colmore BID’s Executive Director, on LAUNCH OF THE BID 3 BUSINESS [email protected] PLAN AT THE ANNUAL MEETING FOR OUR LEVY PAYERS Save the date. 15 Photo credit: Spoke OCT Colmore BID has had discussions with services giant committed to the entire The 280,000 sq ft One Centenary Way VOTING STARTS the Paradise Birmingham Board and has 150,000 sq ft of office space in the building. building – the first building for Phase Two of Please look out for your ballot paper! agreed to extend its western boundary to the scheme – will overlook the transformed WELCOME incorporate the new £700 million Paradise Work has also started on the 183,000 sq ft Centenary Square and provide a striking visual development, including the landscaped Two Chamberlain Square building which will gateway to the whole Paradise development. Chamberlain Square. The extension directly overlook the enhanced Chamberlain Site works and initial construction on Phase responds to the growing scope of the Square, with a terrace at sixth floor level and Two is expected to start later this year. TO PARADISE Colmore Business District making the ground-floor restaurant and retail fronting the 20 new office buildings a seamless addition square and pedestrianised Centenary Way. Colmore BID’s current geographic area Earilier this year, the Boards of both Colmore BID and Paradise NOV to the vibrancy of the area. includes Snow Hill, Colmore Row, Edmund agreed that this landmark new development would join Street, Newhall Street, Cornwall Street and Colmore Business District. We look forward to Described as the most important city centre The provision of high quality connecting streets. welcoming our new neighbours development outside London, Paradise public realm, enhancing the setting into the District in BID 3. VOTING ENDS is seven hectares of mixed-use development of Birmingham’s most important Make sure you have your say. of commercial, civic, retail, leisure and hotel historic buildings such as Town The District is home to some of space, providing major improvements to Hall and Birmingham Museum the city’s biggest professional and pedestrian access and public realm on the and Art Gallery, is central to the financial services companies, plus former site of the Central Library complex. Paradise development. a growing list of premium dining outlets such as Opus, Purnell’s, Work is progressing on the first phase of the Gaucho, Primitivo and Zen Metro development with two new buildings and Chamberlain Square will feature new finishes Bar & Grill.