Costain Skanska host a special one-off presentation and tour of the Crossrail site for a small group of business owners to show the progress and scale of the project.
The winter edition of PaddingtonNow is published, check out the new itinerary for locals and visitors, or read the feature reporting on new developments in the area.
BID Members and guests attend a presentation from London and Partners Insights Team on Tourism Trends for London, at the Frontline Club in October.
The BID’s three summer events, ‘Paddington Covers‘ were held in Norfolk Square Gardens on the last Friday of June, July and August with an excellent response from visitors. As the gateway connecting festival-goers to the UK’s top events, Glastonbury, Somersault and Reading, Paddington will host the mini summer series on the same dates next summer as a fun and free alternative to the ‘real deal’.
Paddington celebrates the arrival of a new royal baby, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge, born at St Mary’s Hospital on 2 May 2015. There were almost 200 mentions of PaddingtonNow associated with Princess Charlotte’s arrival in Paddington, including standout interviews with London Live and BBC Radio London, coverage on key national websites including Mail Online, MSN, Yahoo and Huffington Post, as well as international exposure across Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian and Polish press.
The second edition of PaddingtonNow magazine is published and distributed to local businesses, residents and hotels.
Paddington’s Business Improvement District enters its tenth year of representing and working with local businesses.