Waltham Forest Council quickly assembled a team to engage with businesses, residents and community groups to understand the evening economy and create a pilot project with an event on Small Business Saturday. We led the business engagement stream with high street businesses to understand the challenges they faced to remain open later into the evenings and the support that might encourage it. The wider team included Matter Architecture, Artillery and a community engagement specialist.
Key learnings from the pilot informed the evening and night time economy objectives in the council’s updated Economic Growth Strategy and the Business and Employment Strategy for the town centre.
Diane approached the work with enthusiasm and drive that was evident from the very start and her extensive knowledge and attention to detail ensured a wide range of businesses were meaningfully engaged and participated in the project initiatives, admitting to have hugely benefited from the process at the end. I feel confident in recommending Diane in supporting high street regeneration projects with business support expertise.
The project celebrated the town centre with High Street ADVENTures, an event linking businesses and residents which took place on Small Business Saturday, programmed by Artillery.
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20 November