Recent News

Wales and West upgrades to Gas Pipes in the Kenwyn St Areas in January 2025

Please see newsletter from Wales and West explaining the traffic managment relating to the upgrades.

Shop Watch Meeting in February 2025

All Truro businesses are invited to attend the next Shop Watch meeting, which will be held on Tuesday 4 February 10am at Training Room 4a, Pydar House, Pydar Street, TR1 1XU. Shopwatch meetings provide businesses with a chance to share city centre crime related topics, local knowledge and issues with other businesses, Truro's anti-social behaviour officer, the police and Truro BID. There is no meeting in January.

Christmas in Truro 2024

Please see our Christmas webpage for more details!

Truro Classic Car Show - July 2024

We brought the Truro Classic Car Show back to the city on Sunday 28 July for the second year.

Truro Children's Day - July 2024

We brought Children’s Day back to Truro City Centre for the seventh year, on Saturday 6 July, with lots of mostly free entertainment and activities for families to enjoy.

Truro Rangers awarded CSAS Powers

The Truro Rangers that we arrange and fund now have Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS) powers. This means that they can now stop individuals and take down names and addresses of those related to anti-social behaviour incidents to identify offenders which can then be handed on to the police.

Summer Floral Displays

The summer floral displays and hanging baskets, which we joint fund with Truro City Council, have started going up. Thank you to the Parks Team at Truro City Council who have done a great job.

Truro Volunteers Day on Sunday 21 April

The event was a chance to find out about local volunteering opportunities in one place, on one day. Truro BID supported the Truro Volunteers Day by lending out our gazebos.

Spring 2024 Truro BID Printed Newsletter

The printed Spring newsletter, which is for everyone working in the City Centre has been delivered to businesses and has gone out with Truro BID levy bills. Copies of the newsletter are also online here.

Bunting

The colourful bunting that we fund and install to improve the appearance of the city centre is up for the spring and summer season!

The BIG Truro Market - from March 2024

Hosted by Truro Farmers Market and Cornwall Shop Small, this takes place on the last Saturday of the month from March to October. We are continuing to support Outdoor Markets by lending our colourful gazebos.

City Clean Up 8 & 9 March 2024

We organised the seventh Truro City Clean Up event, in association with Newham BID, on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th March. For more information, see our webpage.

The Magic Tenner

We brought the Totally Locally Magic Tenner to Truro from Saturday 7 to Saturday 21 October, posted on @magictennertruro on Facebook and had listings of the £10 deals on www.visittruro.org.uk.