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Award for One Friargate COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2018 AWARD FOR ONE FRIARGATE INSIDE THIS ISSUE • Digbeth Dining Club • New coffee shop • New faces for hoarding • Wasps Chief Executive • Coventry Pride • City of Culture update friargatecoventry.co.uk @FriargateCov DIGBETH DINING CLUB COOKS UP A STORM Digbeth Dining Club has landed in The lunch club rolls into Station Square every first Wednesday of the month between 11am and 3pm, with traders serving up Friargate! Hundreds of people have a huge variety of dishes from burritos, tacos, quesadillas and pizza to Middle Eastern-inspired kebabs and mezzé, Thai been turning out for the monthly food and gourmet churros. Artists, designers and makers lunchtime market offering some of the from Digbeth Arts Market sell creative goodies. UK’s best street food and arts. Speaking at the last lunch club, Saboor Arif, who works at One Friargate, said: “Today I’ve tried a kebab and pizza and want to taste the churros next time! I’m so pleased Digbeth Dining Club is on our doorstep – the food is amazing.” Friargate’s Stephen Reynolds added: “It’s great to see that the lunch club is fast becoming a Friargate fixture as well as a melting pot for different foods, tastes and cultures.” friargatecoventry.co.uk NEW COFFEE SHOP Latte, chocolate caramel shortbread and carrot cake are firm favourites with the people of Coventry according to Coffee#1, the busy new coffee house at One Friargate. Since opening in March the store has attracted a loyal following of customers who can’t get enough of its handcrafted coffees, pastries, cakes, sandwiches and herbal teas. Positioned on the tree-lined Station Square and just steps from the train station, Coffee#1 Coventry is open to the public from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday. Manager Jamie Cannon said: “There’s already a real buzz here and we have lots of regulars. We see commuters, shoppers, students, workers and business people coming in to relax, socialise or have meetings. Latte, chocolate caramel shortbread and carrot cake are our best sellers by far!” Award-winning Coffee#1 has branches across the country, and prides itself on serving carefully handcrafted coffee and sumptuous snacks served in cosy coffee houses with comfy leather armchairs, reclaimed furniture and friendly baristas. MINUTES WITH NICK5 EASTWOOD CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF WASPS As the Premiership Rugby season drew to a close, we managed to get five minutes with Wasps Group Chief Executive Nick Eastwood to find out how things are going in Coventry. How has Coventry responded to having a leading Premiership side in the city? We simply could not have had a better reception on all fronts. We have had great support from the City Council and all of the other bodies here in the city, and that has helped the move have maximum impact for the good of the club but also for Coventry and the wider area. Coventry is seeing a lot of positive change - what do you like about the city? It’s been just over three years since Is the team having as much success your star-studded team moved to off the pitch? When people ask for our impressions of Coventry, I say it is a real city, with Coventry after buying the Ricoh I’m pleased to say we are growing real people and a real community and Arena. What has the move done the Ricoh Arena’s conference and we are proud to be a part of it. for the club? exhibition business at a healthy rate – When Wasps decided to move to the venue hosted a record-breaking Both European City of Sport 2019 and Coventry, we knew it made sense 857 events last year - while we are UK City of Culture 2021 are set to be both on and off the field – but no-one looking forward to welcoming the watershed years for the city and we could have envisaged just how well it Rolling Stones to the city for the first are proud to support both initiatives. has gone. time in decades. We are looking forward to helping Buying a new home – especially Away from the Ricoh Arena, Wasps build momentum for the city by one with the regional and national have established a comprehensive attracting even more events into importance of the Ricoh Arena – community programme which is the region alongside having a rugby was always going to be a major working with a plethora of schools, team that continues to compete with development, while establishing a clubs, colleges and the two the elite. fresh fan base in a new part of the universities. country had many people in and That does not mean everything has outside the game raising gone totally smoothly – it rarely does their eyebrows. in such a huge move – but it is more But three and a half years later the than fair to describe the move as reasons why we made that decision transformational. are all too clear. We are attracting some of the biggest crowds in the Aviva Premiership, we have made the play-offs and we have a formidable home record. COVENTRY PRIDE’S FREE LGBT+ FESTIVAL WEEKEND IS BACK! Everyone is invited to Coventry Pride in University Square outside Coventry Cathedral on 9-10 June. It promises to be brilliant weekend with three stages of live family-friendly entertainment, community stalls and food & drink. There’ll also be a parade through Coventry city centre on Saturday 9 June. #covpride18 @PrideCov www.coventrypride.org.uk 9-10University Square, opposite JUNE Coventry Cathedral #BeYou EVERYONE IS WELCOME LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDING... Nicky French FREE Corey Cooper Amrick Channa Freddie Parker EVENT Lilith AI Marcus Morgan Marilyn Misandry Dr Bev Lloyd Daniels Milestone Road Calton Kelly ...and many more – check website Take a walk through Coventry with pride Gather at 10am Sat 9 June Catherdral Ruins Register for your FREE TICKET at coventrypride.org.uk 3 STAGES OF LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Sponsors of Coventry Pride COMMUNITY STALLS FOOD & DRINK HEALTH & WELL-BEING ZONE Coventry Pride is a registered charity no. 1164035 run entirely by volunteers ONE FRIARGATE CROWNED ONE OF THE MIDLANDS’ BEST WORKPLACES #covpride18 @PrideCov www.coventrypride.org.uk Judges praised the building for delivering significant cost savings and introducing open plan working, desk sharing and low parking provision. 9-10University Square, opposite JUNE Coventry Cathedral “This new Civic Centre has facilitated a major transformation in #BeYou EVERYONE IS WELCOME the way the Council operates and is LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDING... a linchpin in the regeneration of this part of Coventry”, they added. Nicky French FREE Stephen Reynolds of Friargate said: Corey Cooper Amrick Channa Freddie Parker EVENT “The delivery of One Friargate was Lilith AI Marcus Morgan Marilyn Misandry Dr Bev We’ve won a real team effort and I am truly a context and setting that kick- Lloyd Daniels Milestone Road Calton Kelly another award! humbled to have been the one started regeneration around ...and many more – check website This time One Friargate – which collecting the award for everyone Coventry station through intelligent houses the majority of Coventry involved. On behalf of the Project placemaking, played a part in the City Council’s office-based staff – Team, I would like to record our community by employing local Take a walk through Coventry with pride has picked up the ‘Best Corporate thanks for the peer recognition of construction workers, supported the Workplace’ at the British Council for the scheme’s quality. successful Coventry 2021 City of Gather at 10am Sat 9 June Catherdral Ruins Culture bid and is now host to the Register for your FREE TICKET at coventrypride.org.uk Offices’ (BCO) regional awards – “One Friargate is the first building monthly Digbeth Dining lunch club.” 3 STAGES OF LIVE ENTERTAINMENT which recognises the highest quality of the £700 million Friargate Sponsors of Coventry Pride COMMUNITY STALLS workplaces and sets the standard for regeneration scheme; Friargate One Friargate will now be entered excellence across the regional and has not only created a fabulous into the National BCO Awards FOOD & DRINK national office sectors. work space, but it has created in October. HEALTH & WELL-BEING ZONE Coventry Pride is a registered charity no. 1164035 run entirely by volunteers SHOWCASING FRIARGATE TO THE WORLD The Friargate development was showcased to the world at the recent global real estate show MIPIM 2018 in France. Project director Stephen Reynolds Mayor of the West Midlands, was part of the senior team in Andy Street, said: “There was a real the Midlands UK Pavilion, which feeling at MIPIM that our region is welcomed more than 4,700 visitors on the up. keen to find out about property “It also saw the West Midlands investment opportunities. working together in showing the Friargate was one of 26 investment- world how we are the UK’s new ready Midlands projects highlighted growth capital and its most liveable, at the show, with a combined value investable and competitive region.” of £11 billion. COVENTRY NAMED EUROPEAN CITY OF SPORT Coventry has been named as the Leader of the Council, Councillor UK’s European City of Sport for George Duggins, said: “European 2019, when it will celebrate all City of Sport 2019 will be a special aspects of sport and wellbeing year for our city, and the perfect across the city. build up to City of Culture in 2021, with investment in community sports The title has been awarded by programmes and grants and huge European Capitals and Cities of Sport investment in new sporting facilities. Federation (ACES Europe), after judges were impressed by the city’s “We already do lots to encourage ‘exemplary sports policy’ and its aims our residents to be active and healthy and we will make sure that of ‘health integration and respect’, – especially those who live in we work with partners throughout An important part of the year will be disadvantaged communities – to 2019 and beyond to encourage the opening of the new £36 million enjoy sport and lead an active as many people as possible to get waterpark in the city centre as well lifestyle.
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