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Brentwood Connected February 2025 Newsletter

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Welcome note from Brentwood Connected BID Manager Sarah Walmsley, including a photo of Sarah.
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Image showing Brentwood Connected BID Manager Sarah Walmsley outside Shenfield Library with Library Service Team Manager Andiola Basho.
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Image showing the Brentwood Connected Themes - Improving Places, Promoting Places, Welcoming Places, Connecting Places, with icons for each.
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White text on navy blue background - IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR 2025 CALENDARS - with a green bunting illustration.
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Image with posters for Artisan Ingatestone, Easter Bunny Trail and the Brentwood Art Trail, with a list of key dates for 2025.

* Our Easter Bunny Trail will feature 10 large decorated bunnies on display in business locations for families to find and have the chance to win prizes.  

Individual event days with free activities will take place on Thursday 10 April (Brentwood), Friday 11 April (Shenfield) & Thursday 17 April (Ingatestone).

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White text on navy blue background - DOG FRIENDLY LOCATION STICKERS COMING SOON - with a green bench and tree illustration.
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Image of the Brentwood Connected 'We Are Dog Friendly' stickers.

Our ‘WE ARE DOG FRIENDLY’ stickers are coming to businesses in the BID area soon!  We want to shout about our dog friendly businesses to encourage people visiting with their dogs to discover the area and spend more time here.

If your business welcomes dogs, click here to check you’re already tagged as ‘dog friendly’ on our website (if not, get in touch please).  We will be delivering these stickers in Brentwood, Shenfield and Ingatestone from Thursday 6 March.

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White text on navy blue background - HEALTH & WELLBEING IN THE WORKPLACE - with a green illustration showing three location markers

If you work at the Hubert Road Industrial Estate, you’re invited to join us on Wednesday 26 February from 10am to 4pm at our Workplace Health & Wellbeing Event in partnership with Working Well Essex.  

Come along for NHS health & lifestyle checks and more.  The Essex Working Well mobile unit will be located outside outside Baker Labels (unit A2), and you can pop in to our meeting room at Bakers for refreshments.

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White text on navy blue background - CELEBRATING BRENTWOOD CONNECTED MEMBERS' SUCCESSES - with a green applause illustration.

Congratulations to Raspberry Interiors in Ingatestone, awarded Best of Houzz Design & Best of Houzz Service 2025.  

These awards recognise the team’s consistently happy clients and professional online portfolio for the tenth year running!

If you’re celebrating an achievement or a special milestone, let us know so we can shout about it for you.

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Tracey from Raspberry Interiors with the 2025 Houzz award branding.

We’re looking for additional Brentwood Art Trail venues this year.  Please get in touch if you would like to exhibit work from local artists between 31 May - 29 June for this Brentwood Connected event.

Pictured are Julia and Liviu from Schmidt Kitchens & Interior Solutions in Brentwood with their 2024 artists Carole Windham and Nicola Osborne.

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Image showing Julia and Liviu from Schmidt Kitchens with their 2024 Brentwood Art Trail artists Carole Windham and Nicola Osborne.
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Image showing the Brentwood Connected Town Rangers highlighting a recent success.

We’re supporting the Bakers Brentwood Half Marathon on Sunday 23 March 2025.

This is an event which attracts thousands of people to the Brentwood High Street area.  Last year, we promoted special offers from Essex Cryo Wellness, Hey Joe Music & Coffee, The Merchant Brentwood and Whittakers. If your business would like to organise a special offer for visitors this year, please email us so we can help you to promote it.

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White text on navy blue background - YOUR VOICE MATTERS - with a green speech bubble illustration and contact details.