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| Christmas 07.11.08 Huddersfield Christmas Lights Switch–On Christmas fun in Huddersfield will start on Thursday 13th November when a host of special guests including Yorkshire born Billy Pearce come to town for the annual Christmas Lights Switch-On event on The Piazza at 6.30pm. The Pulse breakfast show presenter Darren Kelly will kick things off at 4pm with lots of fun, games and music assisted by Huddersfield Town Crier, the Huddersfield Giants mascot Big G and Father Christmas. Also joining the fun will be local actress Natalie Anderson who will be performing her new single. Town Centre Manager Cathy Burger says “we hope families will come down early and enjoy the road show. The Christmas Lights Switch-on is a fabulous way to get in the mood for Christmas shopping and marks the start of some wonderful events in Huddersfield during the run up to Christmas.” Parking both on street and in Kirklees controlled car parks is free from 4pm on Thursdays from the 13th November and on Sundays from the 30th November until 21st December. Cathy Burger added “ for more information about all Christmas events, shop opening times and Christmas parking pick up a copy of ‘Your Christmas Guide Huddersfield 2008’ in shops, libraries and tourist information centres’. Contact: Cathy Burger or Julia Lilof - Tel: 01484 487933 (top) 01.11.08 Free Parking for Christmas Shoppers in Huddersfield have been given an early Christmas present by Kirklees Council with the announcement of free parking during the festive season. Parking will be free on-street and in all Kirklees controlled car parks from 4pm on Thursdays from 13th November until 18th December and all day on Sundays from 30th November until 21st December. Cllr Ken Sims said “with my colleague Cllr David Hall of Highways we have worked together to provide a package that should help both businesses and the public to enjoy a good experience when shopping in Huddersfield this Christmas.” Town Centre Manager, Cathy Burger added “ This is a real boost for the town centre and is a great addition to the start of late night shopping, the Christmas Light Switch-on, the Festival of Light, the Continental Market and the opening of the ice rink. We really feel that free parking will encourage people to come to Huddersfield and do their Christmas Shopping and enjoy the various events that are taking place.” Parking is also free on bank holidays in Kirklees so there will be no charges on Friday 26th December and Thursday 1st January. Contact: Julia Lilof – Assistant Town Centre Manager , Tel: 01484 487933 (top) 08.10.08 Christmas in Huddersfield. With Christmas fast approaching Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership are again looking for performers to help bring a festive feel to late night and weekend shopping in the run up to Christmas. The Partnership is looking for local performers to play on Thursday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. Town Centre Manager Cathy Burger says ‘the town has traditionally benefited from brass bands and choirs playing and singing in the town. For the second year we are offering those the opportunity to be included on our Christmas brochure and have a listing on our website. We will also be happy to assist people with collection licenses’. Cathy added, ‘Christmas in Huddersfield is set to be better than ever. We have the Christmas Light Switch-on with The Pulse radio roadshow on Thursday 13th November with Billy Pearce and Santa turning on the lights followed by this years Festival Of Light on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd November. The fun doesn’t stop there either because the ever popular ice-rink is returning on 4th December. Shopping during the run up to Christmas can be quiet a stressful business. We hope that by having plenty going on in the town the task will become more pleasurable and people will be encouraged to come to Huddersfield to shop’. If you would like to perform in the town please contact HTCPL on 01484 487933 or email htcpl@kirklees.gov.uk by Friday 17th October. Contact: Julia Lilof Assistant Town Centre Manager. Tel: 01484 487933 (top) Food and Drink Festival 27.06.08 Eighth Huddersfield Food & Drink Festival Huddersfield's eighth Food & Drink Festival, which this year is being held on The Piazza and New Street will be officially opened by The Mayor of Kirklees, Councillor Karam Hussain Thursday 14 th August at 11.15am on the Piazza and will continue until Sunday 17 th August. Following the official opening, Real Radio Breakfast Show presenters Gayle Lofthouse and Darryl Denham will be competing in a ‘Ready Steady Cook' style competition. The stars are to be assisted by professional, local chefs from The Head of Steam and Heritage Exchange in the 80 seater cookery demonstration theatre which forms the centrepiece of the festival. The competition will be the first of 20 free demonstrations running hourly throughout the four day festival showing a wide variety of skills from the best local chefs, to annual Sporting Chef of the Year competition with the Huddersfield Giants. Other attractions being held include a variety of stalls selling everything from award winning pies, specialist cheeses, local pickles, fabulous pastries, preserves and ice creams, real ales to wine and cider and an open air food court provides the opportunity to try delicacies from around the world. Children will be kept busy too with plenty of free entertainment. On Thursday and Friday Kirklees Museums and Galleries will be giving children the opportunity to play with genuine Victorian games and to make some of their own to take home. There will also be the chance to make butter Tudor style! On Saturday and Sunday children can join Borage and Bombus for the Bee Walks as they track down and save the bees whilst pollinating plants with their elaborate inventions! Find out more about what the humble bee does for us, why they are leaving and what we would have to do to replace them. The Real Radio Patrol will also be out and about during the festival giving away lots of Real Radio goodies. The Festival, which runs from Thursday 14 August until Sunday 17 August is open from 10am til 6pm Thursday – Saturday and 11am – 5pm on Sunday. For more information please contact the festival hotline: 01484 487933 or see the Festival website at www.foodanddrinkfestival.co.uk CONTACT : Julia Lilof, Assistant Town Centre Manager Tel: 01484 487933 (top) 05.08.08 ‘Once a Week Cookbook’ launched at Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival Local Almondbury person, Sylvia Shaw is to launch her new cookbook on Friday 15th August at the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival. Her stall will be up on New Street and Sylvia will also be doing a cookery demonstration down at the Piazza between 1pm and 2pm. It was an article in the Examiner in April about Sylvia’s cookbook that urged the Festival team to get in contact with Sylvia. Cathy Burger, Town Centre Manager, said ‘We couldn’t miss an opportunity like this. Having a local person with such talent, and our Food and Drink Festival occurring about the same time as Sylvia’s book being produced seemed to be just the recipe we needed! We contacted Sylvia and she not only agreed to do a book signing at the Festival, but also agreed to be involved with our Cookery Demonstration theatre. Like most people these days Sylvia is short of time, being a full-time office worker, so it was not until 2006 that she finally got around to starting the book. The ‘Once a Week’ recipes can be made up in one cooking session per week and then frozen, thus evening meals then become quick assembly jobs – some taking just a few minutes to get to the table. This year the Food and Drink Festival is being held on The Piazza and New Street and will be officially opened by The Mayor of Kirklees, Councillor Karam Hussain on Thursday 14th August at 11.15am on the Piazza. The festival continues through until Sunday 17th August and promises to provide lots of delicious goodies as well as entertainment! Other attractions being held include a variety of stalls selling everything from award winning pies, specialist cheeses, local pickles, fabulous pastries, preserves and ice creams, real ales to wine and cider and an open air food court provides the opportunity to try delicacies from around the world. Children will be kept busy too with plenty of free entertainment. On Thursday and Friday Kirklees Museums and Galleries will be giving children the opportunity to play with genuine Victorian games and to make some of their own to take home. There will also be the chance to make butter Tudor style! On Saturday and Sunday children can join Borage and Bombus for the Bee Walks as they track down and save the bees whilst pollinating plants with their elaborate inventions! Find out more about what the humble bee does for us, why they are leaving and what we would have to do to replace them. The Real Radio Patrol will also be out and about during the festival giving away lots of Real Radio goodies. The Festival, which runs from Thursday 14 August until Sunday 17 August is open from 10am till 6pm Thursday – Saturday and 11am – 5pm on Sunday. For more information please contact the festival hotline: 01484 487933 or see the Festival website at www.foodanddrinkfestival.co.uk Cathy Burger, Town Centre Manager Tel: 01484 487933 (top) General 29.02.08 National Award For Town Centre Partnership Huddersfield’s Town Centre Management team has won ‘Partnership of the Year’ award at a major conference in London. The award, presented at the Association of Town Centre Management’s (ATCM) annual conference and sponsored by Springboard, recognised the teams work on behalf of the Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership Limited (HTCPL). The partnership between Kirklees Council, town centre businesses and key stakeholders including the University, Civic Society and Police has developed into one of the country’s leading partnerships. With 180 members the partnership helps to drive the town’s economic performance and undertakes a wide range of initiatives to improve the perception and vitality of the town. The ATCM itself represents over 550 towns and cities across the country and the judging panel chose Huddersfield from an eventual shortlist of five. The award was presented to Town Centre Manager Cathy Burger and Chairman of the Partnership, John Eastwood, of Eastwood and Partners. Mr Eastwood said: “I am delighted our partnership working has been recognised nationally and congratulate Cathy and her team for their hard work in ensuring we talk up the town for the benefit of all our members. The loyalty and valuable input of members has helped achieve what we have today and reflects the care and commitment of members to the town that we work and live in” Cllr Ken Sims, Kirklees Council’s Cabinet member regeneration and one of two council directors on the board of the partnership said: “Partnership working is extremely important in ensuring that we are all pulling the same direction in taking the town forward and giving the maximum support to those efforts. “A lot is happening in Huddersfield, and there is a lot more to come. There is a deep commitment from all concerned in driving the town forward, and this award is justly deserved and recognises the hard work put in by the partnership.” This is the second award the Town Centre Management team has won over the past 4 years, the first being the Shopping Centre SCEPTRE award in 2004 for ‘Town Centre Manager of the Year’. For more information contact: Cathy Burger on 01484 487933 (top) 21.11.08 Booming Night Time Economy leads to new initiatives With the night time economy booming in the town centre, a couple of new initiatives are being trialled in the lead up to Christmas. Working in partnership, the Police, Community Safety and Town Centre Management are responding to the needs of the night time economy by providing urinals at 2 locations on Friday and Saturday nights. The 2 units that house 4 urinals per unit are located on King St and Victoria Lane and are dropped off at 9pm every Friday and Saturday night and picked up at 6.30am every morning. The trial is to run for 10 weeks and will monitor the need of toilet provision in the town centre for the booming night time economy. Cathy Burger, Town Centre Manager said “Our night time economy has really grown over the past few years and initiatives such as these help provide a solution to some of the challenges we are presented with. We hope that people will make use of them over this very busy period!” The second initiative, being piloted in December aims to provide nourishment and essentials to people heading home in the early hours of the morning. A ‘safe haven van’ selling tea, coffee, water, energy bars, flip flops, condoms and personal alarms at cost will be in town every Friday and Saturday night. This is the first pilot trial of this kind in the UK and if successful, will be rolled out across the country. Contact: Cathy Burger, Town Centre Manager. Tel: 01484 487933 (top) 26.09.08 Town Criers Set to Make a Noise in the Town Centre Town Criers from all over the country are travelling to Huddersfield to take part in the annual Town Criers Competition on Saturday 27th September. The Town Criers will parade through the town from 10.30am and then gather at the Piazza where the competition starts at approximately 11.15am. Huddersfield Town Crier Vic Watson explained ‘competition takes place in two rounds with a team of judges awarding points for volume, clarity and the content of the cry as well as the Criers overall deportment’. Huddersfield Town Crier, Vic Watson said “as host Crier I am delighted that so many Town Criers are coming to Huddersfield. This is the sixth town crier competition in Huddersfield and I hope that lots of people will come down and support us and join in with some of the fun and games! Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership have sponsored the event and provided the prizes which will be presented to the winning Town Criers at approximately 3.15pm. For more information contact Vic on 01484 315494 Contact: Vic Watson, Hudds Town Crier 01484 315 494 (top) 21.10.08 In Bloom and Tidy Trader Award Winners Announced. Winners of this years Huddersfield In Bloom and Green & Tidy Business Awards have been announced by the Huddersfield In Bloom committee. Certificates were presented to businesses in many different categories at the ceremony which was held at The George Hotel. Overall winners were The Piazza who were presented with Huddersfield Civic Society Rose Bowl for Floral Excellence. Term Time Wear won the Huddersfield Civic Society Trophy as winners of the Tidy Trader Competition for the second year running. Prizes sponsored by Kirklees Environment Unit were also awarded by Jim Porter of the Green Business Network to the winners of the new Green Business Awards. First prize went to Adrian Midgley from Half Moon Health Foods who was presented with a grant of £250 towards environmental improvements. Assistant Town Centre Manager Julia Lilof said ‘the award ceremony is our way of saying thank you to all the businesses that help make Huddersfield a nice place to live, work and do business. The town has looked particularly vibrant this summer and judging from the amount of letters in the press and to ourselves, the floral displays have made a big impression on our visitors. The addition of the barrier planters around the ring road which were funded by Huddersfield North and South Area committee have made a real difference and really brightened up the approaches to the town.’ Contact: Julia Lilof Tel: 487933 (top) 24.10.08 Pride of the Penninces Vintage Vehicle Show Sunday, 26 October, 2008. Organisers of the annual Vintage Vehicle show are hoping this years event will be better than ever Enthusiasts from all over the country have been invited to display their vehicles at Springwood car park. Now in its 7th year the event has attracted historic commercial vehicles, cars and buses. Mel Munday, organiser of the event said, ‘The popularity of this event demonstrates the continuing pleasure both young and old have for these classic vehicles. Many proud owners will be coming to Huddersfield on Sunday and we hope it will provide an extra attraction for local people.’ Vehicles will be on display from 11am. Contact: Mel Munday Tel. 07765 302675 (top) Plant Sales 04.06.08 A treat for LocalGardeners. Local gardeners are in for a treat when the first of the town's annual plant sales takes place on Saturday 7 th June. The event, now in its eighth year is organised by Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership in conjunction with the National Trust Marsden Moor, and is an opportunity to purchase a wide variety of plants from growers and nurseries from all over the region and further a field. The sale takes place on New Street and will run from 9am – 4pm . Town Centre Manager, Cathy Burger says ‘These events have proved to be very popular. Our stall holders bring in a wide range of plants including some very unusual varieties. Plants go very quickly, so our advice as always is to come early! Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership will be having a stall where visitors can find out about other events going on throughout the summer and have an opportunity to enter our prize draw for the chance to win £50 of vouchers to spend in Huddersfield town centre'. The second Plant Sale is on 5 th July. For more information call Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership on 01484 487933 or got to www.huddersfield-htcpl.co.uk. For more information contact: Cathy Burger on 01484 487933 (top) Plant Sales 30.06.08 A Treat for LocalGardeners. The second of Huddersfield 's annual Plant Sales is coming to town on Saturday 5 th July. The event, now in its eighth year is organised by Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership and is an opportunity to purchase a wide variety of plants from growers and nurseries from all over the region and further a field. The sale takes place on New Street and will run from 9am – 4pm . Town Centre Manager, Cathy Burger says ‘These events have proved to be very popular. Our stall holders bring in a wide range of plants including some very unusual varieties. Another reason for the sales popularity is that the stallholders are always more than happy to give advice to customers to ensure their purchases thrive. Also, new this year we have Julian Faulkner from Kirklees Council Countryside Unit who will be on hand for general horticultural advice and allotment information. The Plant Sale in June was one of our most successful yet with stallholders selling out so we suggest keen gardeners come early!' Visitors to the Plant Sale will be able to pick up information on other events running through out the summer at the Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership stall. For more information on the Plant Sale and other events call Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership on 01484 487933 or got to www.huddersfield-htcpl.co.uk. For more information contact: Cathy Burger on 01484 487933 (top) |
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