4 7/ 17 NEWS The newsletter from Angel Business Improvement District Be dazzled by the Angel on Angel Day this Saturday November 18 Oh – and put December 5 in Angel all set to sparkle your diary. It’s the first at first-ever Angel Day anniversary of the flood Angel is back in business after the through flood. And we’re marking it with our first Almost there....Thai Square gets ready for Camden ever Angel Day on Saturday November its re-opening Passage and shops will be 18 to show what’s so spectacular about celebrating their the Angel. Flood report survival in style. Come and celebrate with us the re-opening of historic Camden Thai Square has re-opened! Passage almost a year after water gushed through, see the wonders It’s the last business that was of our traditional street market Chapel Market, check out the fabulous flooded by December’s water independent Upper Street clothes and cosmetics boutiques and visit main burst to open its doors all your favourite stores in Angel Central where Santa and his elves and again. Since the flood six reindeer are switching on the Christmas lights at 5pm. businesses have disappeared but our community spirit There will be musicians and living statues around the Angel, hot hasn’t. Camden Passage shops, chestnuts in Chapel Market, mulled wine, hot cider tea and mince pies restaurants and antiques In-Residence in Camden Passage, the cast from Hoxton Hall’s Puss in Boots, selfie traders have all pulled together taxis and much more. over the last eleven months owner Jacqui to breathe life back into the Bulmer who And that’s not to mention our sparkling Christmas lights which this Angel, and make sure Thames was famously year will be even more dazzling than ever before. We won’t spoil the Water compensated people only open for surprise…look around and see what’s new. and honoured its commitments six weeks and to the area. then closed for So what’s so good about the We are pleased to report that six months is Angel? Thames Water has made a significant contribution determined to We’re publishing a handy pocket-sized guide to to new lights this year, the make it a date to Angel in partnership with Angel Central giving entertainments in Camden remember with tourists, visitors and hotel guests a flavour of what’s Passage, and our project flash mobs and here. It will hit the streets soon – if you’d like some in for signposts which will be dancers. your foyer or to distribute to clients, get in touch. completed in 2018. What’s happening where? Saturday 18 November Angel Central 12.30-6pm Camden Passage 2-6pm Chapel Market 2-5pm Father performances throughout the music, living statues, street Christmas, living statues, afternoon from Santa, his elves, entertainment, selfie taxis, buskers, hot chestnuts, free face- and Rodney the lazy reindeer mulled wine, hot cider tea, mince painting and henna tattoos, free at 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, pies and other special treats chocolates and balloons 4.30pm. Grand all-Angel lights from shops and cafes. Re- switch-on 5pm. Plus a special opening ceremony with Islington performance from Hoxton Hall’s Mayor Una O’Halloran. Puss in Boots panto cast 3.30pm. angel.london businesses were intrigued by the fake notes at our spot the forgery session Criminals and shoplifters watch Spotting the fakes Designing out! There’s zero- tolerance for thieves BIG thanks to all those businesses who became real fake note and criminals at spotters at our recent security breakfast. The Bank of England out crime Angel – and a super- experts who trained everyone said the session held at Candid After a slew of complaints efficient partnership Arts Trust in Torrens Street was their best attended event so far. about mini-cabs obstructing between angel. It’s important to be especially eagle-eyed about fake notes at the traffic and pedestrians on london businesses moment. The police team are reporting that tricksters are trying to get Liverpool Road and ice-cream and Angel Police rid of counterfeit £20 and £50 notes before they go out of circulation, vans idling and their fumes Team is making that and also spend fake polymer notes before anyone gets familiar with choking people relaxing on a reality. their security features. It’s vital for businesses to spot the duds, but the lawn in Angel Central, we also for all of us to check our change carefully. decided to act. A lethal combo of police intelligence, “That was the most interesting training session,” said Arnaud Orchamp Working with Islington Council, and shops and bars from Frederick’s restaurant. “Now we can spot fake notes at a glance, we got the paving at the back of reporting crimes which is important at work and at home. I recommend everyone in the shopping centre improved and sharing their every business does this course.” and bollards installed all the CCTV means we’ve way along there. Now there’s no For all those who didn’t get to our training, we requested these really often got enough thoughtless parking, pedestrians helpful links for you to share with everyone. evidence to actually can cross safely between the put criminals behind supermarkets, shopping centre bars and get them What’s happening at PubWatch? and Chapel Market, and people off our streets. can relax for a few minutes Calling all angel.london licensees – the next PubWatch meeting without fumes in their faces. Recently, persistent is at 3pm on Tuesday December 5 at the Lexington. If you missed shoplifter Phillip the very popular and successful fake banknote training event Says Chapel Market stallholder White aged 30 was recently, the Bank of England trainers will be doing another Joanne Coote: “Thanks angel. sentenced to 20 session on December 5 for you and your staff. Pubs and bars are london! The works have improved weeks in prison for prime targets for people trying to pass off forged notes so come the area no end. Not only does regularly shoplifting and discover how to spot them at a glance without slowing up it look so much better but more in Boots, and your service. importantly it’s safer. No longer are there mini cabs and ice- 46-year-old Cemal PubWatch meetings are the first Tuesday of every month – contact cream vans idling illegally and Hassan was handed Mark Turner 0207 288 4377 for details. eight weeks inside chucking out fumes.” after assaulting a local stall holder. He was identified The Bank of eLearning training package as a What are you doing by a sharp-eyed zip file to download onto internal member of the England’s free platforms, please email with last year’s angel.london team educational [email protected]. winter coat? – now nicknamed gov.uk Miss Marple – who materials, including If yours is gathering dust on the matched photos short films and To be kept up-to-date about coat rack or stashed under the with crime reports. banknotes, when new ones are bed, take it to Chestertons estate online training can being issued or withdrawn, sign up agents because they’re collecting to the banknote bulletin via http:// unwanted coats and delivering be accessed via bankofengland.us12.list-manage. them to charities looking after http://www.bankofengland. com/subscribe?u=f7bfb4e5984e7fb vulnerable families, older people, co.uk/banknotes/Pages/ 90467e6fba&id=3213315a56 and asylum seekers. educational.aspx. Finally, if you have any questions It’s the fourth year they have been Hard copies of the materials can regarding banknotes or would running their Calling London Coat be ordered via an online order form like any further information, Drive – just drop yours into their midway down the webpage above. email knowyourbanknotes@ office at 327 Upper Street and they If you would like the certificated bankofengland.co.uk will make sure it gets a new home. Lexington pub wins business rates appeal The Lexington has scored a massive victory by appealing against their new business rates and getting them reduced from a whopping £199,000 to £130,000. Determined to help other businesses struggling under the weight of the rises, we organised a seminar for Chapel Market businesses with Islington Council experts on how they can appeal and what financial help is available through the Discretionary Scheme. Businesses discovered from Duwaine Brown, the council’s Revenues Collections Manager, how the rates are calculated, how to launch and manage appeals, and how the council can give financial help through the new Revaluation relief fund. This information is particularly valuable for all Do you Angel’s small and medium businesses, many of whom have been devastated by the rate increases. want to If you need advice or help with your rates, get in touch with the Business Rates team at revenues. know how [email protected] many Thanks to angel.london business Islington Islington Townhouse - excellent meeting space in a very Townhouse on the corner of Chapel Market and people central location Liverpool Road for generously hosting the seminar. pass your shop? We’re paying for ten more footfall monitors and will Reach a new install them on a audience… Without wishing to be rude, first come, we’re thrilled to see the Old Red Lion in St John Street back of the Thames Water first served roadworks, lorries and contractors and delighted basis. All to witness the return of A real drama at the Old Red you need is buses, shoppers and diners The suspect package alert which closed the Angel one October to the Angel just in time for evening was a scary reminder about how we must all to stay a plug point Christmas.