Events

Events are key to bringing new visitors into the town and the team at Our Bury St Edmunds are always at the forefront of many major events that have taken place in the town centre over the last few years. The BID team are always coming up with new events and ideas and this year there are many events to look forward to. Take a look at some of the events taking place in 2018...

Whitsun Fayre: 26th and 27th May 2019

Independents Week: 1st - 7th July 2019

Food and Drink Festival: 25th - 26th August 2019

Festival of Sport: Dates 18th - 27th October

Christmas Lights Switch-On: Thursday 14th November 2019

For more information about the festivals and events, click here.

Please find our member resources below for each of our events: 

Independents Week 2019

We are looking forward to Independents Week this year, and we have lots going on including a Facebook competition and a visit from The Town Crier. Please see below for some images that we've prepared for you to use to promote Independents Week far and wide to your audiences! 

Header image: download here

This can be used for Facebook and Twitter, the header is the large image at the top which helps to capture attention of the user, and is a great way to advertise a campaign or a particular topic that you would like to promote. 

General Social image:  download here

This is a general image to promote the event. This can be used on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

We have also created a series of infographics about the variety of independent businesses we have in the town, download them below:

Image 1 - 2019 marks the 9th year of Independents Week - download

Image 2 - 59% of all of our businesses are Independent - download 

Image 3 - Every street in the BID has an independent business in it - download

Image 4 - Bury St Edmunds has 20% more independent businesses than the national average - download 

Image 5 - 290 businesses are independent -  download

Image 6 - There are 80 independent market stalls - download

Image 7 - We have a variety of independent businesses - download

Image 8 - Let us know why you love shopping with independent businesses! - download 

Food and Drink Festival 2019

We can't wait for this year's Food and Drink Festival with demonstrations from celebrity chefs Nick Nairn and Dean Edwards. We'd love for you to promote this to your customers, please find some helpful social media images below:

General header image - download here

Header image with chefs - download here

This can be used for Facebook and Twitter, the header is the large image at the top which helps to capture attention of the user, and is a great way to advertise a campaign or a particular topic that you would like to promote. 

Square social images, we have a few options and these can be used on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Image 1 General - download here

Image 2 with Dean Edwards - download here

Image 3 with Nick Nairn - download here 

Theatre Star Trail 2019

This year is the 200th Anniversary of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, and as one of the oldest active theatres in the UK and a huge cultural asset to Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding areas, it’s an anniversary worth celebrating!

There are a number of events the Theatre are organising to recognise this important achievement, click here to find out how you can get involved!

One of the events commemorating this anniversary is the Theatre Star Trail where, in partnership with the Our Bury St Edmunds BID, we are creating a trail around the town centre and challenging the public to find the 25 stars, each with a named performer, who has trodden the boards at Theatre Royal!

The trail will run from the May half term until the end of the October half term holiday (Saturday 25th May through to Sunday 27th October)

To take part in the trail is FREE!, great exercise and a fabulous social event with friends and/or family and a way of getting to know even more about our town centre and it’s wonderful businesses.

Trail leaflets and entry forms will be available from late May from the theatre and the Tourism Information Points at the Apex, the Cathedral Shop, Moyses Hall and the Town Council offices. There are prizes up for grabs for those who can identify each performer on the stars at the correct location and correct entries need to be delivered to the Our Bury St Edmunds BID offices in Woolhall Street by Thursday 31st October 2019.

Header image: download here

This can be used for Facebook and Twitter, the header is the large image at the top which helps to capture attention of the user, and is a great way to advertise a campaign or a particular topic that you would like to promote. 

Social image-  Theatre Star Trail 2019: download here

This is a general image to promote the event the trail with the star in the centre. This can be used on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.