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Achievements 18 August 2023
Digital Transformation
✅ Pippfest web page build
✅ Continued CRM work; coordination with MVDC
✅ Continued coordination on Gift Card efforts
✅ Continued website updates: forms, minutes, blogs
✅ Continued work on Future Dorking
✅ Multiple web updates
✅ Generated website savings on old domains
✅ Respond to all website engagement
Creative Campaigns
✅ Continued communications via Mailchimp emails to our audience
✅ Followed up on PR
✅ Continued LoyalFree marketing coordination of all materials and collateral
✅ Continued Summer Safari print campaign development and management
✅ Continued social media execution: socials, blogs, promotion, channel management
✅ Blogging
✅ Additional radio support of community partners
✅ Social media execution, copywriting, reporting
✅ Completed Springboard training for High Streets Task Force for free footfall counter
Placemaking/Events
✅ Continued support of Pippfest: website support, marketing and PR
✅ Finalised risk assessment and submitted to St John’s Ambulance for Christmas
event
✅ Continued troubleshooting and management of ‘A Very Dorkensian Christmas’ – event management coordination with MVDC, Highways, Traffic Management, engagement with businesses and residents.
✅ *Extensive* Christmas coordination with all parties – coordination with community partners – all documentation submitted ahead of the SAG meeting
✅ Continued meetings with Council on Christmas coordination and consultation
✅ Continued LoyalFree PR, coordination and execution
✅ Finalised consultation results
✅ Finalised all consultation plans (traffic, etc.)
✅ Distributed LoyalFree print materials to businesses
✅ More Pippfest updates and promotion; remind everyone on our list of events
✅ Coronation Committee planning meeting and follow up
✅ Development of programme and project management of Christmas programme – interaction with all vendors and prospects
Business Support
✅ Meetings with community partners
✅ Brought on board new Voluntary BID members
✅ Explored grant opportunities
✅ Coordinating policing meetings and followed up again
✅ Coordination of board meeting with all parties
✅ Remind levy payers of of Christmas event and encourage involvement
✅ Christmas documentation for MVDC
✅ Coordination with vendors
✅ BID Board support, meeting management and coordination
✅ Community engagement
✅ Op ed on Banking Hub (continuation of the BID’s efforts to bring a hub to Dorking)
✅ Followed up on operating agreements with MVDC again
✅ Routine finance and operations
