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50p off coffee at Pret if you’re ready to recycle
Delighted to report that Pret a Manger have doubled their usual discount for customers taking in recycled coffee cups for their daily brew. It’s all about changing people’s coffee habits – as it’s now estimated that the UK throws away…
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A-BOARD ENFORCEMENT
Once so unpopular, A-boards have now become a feature of our lives, often displaying clever images and hilarious slogans – but there’s a but… We’re warning you that Transport for London will shortly be adopting a zero tolerance approach to…
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A-BOARDS AND TABLES & CHAIRS ON THE STREET – THE RULES
Recently we have received a number of enquiries from businesses following action taken by TfL regarding A-Boards and tables and chairs on the pavements. We hope this will clarify matters for you. The situation Transport for London (TfL) have responsibility…
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Advance Notice: Closure of Chapel Market – Monday 5 August
To facilitate resurfacing works and repainting of market stall pitches, Chapel Market (from the junction of Liverpool Road to Penton Street) will be closed to all vehicles on Monday 5 August. The road closure will be in place from 07.00hrs…
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Angel Ambassadors
We’ve had calls already – do the new evening recycling times mean you won’t see anything of the popular recycling boys? Not a bit of it – in fact, you’ll see more of Rhys, Damion, Sam and Ash. By negotiating…
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Angel Business Climate Challenge
Do you want to reduce your business property’s energy consumption and save money? angel.london is bidding to be an official Partner with the Greater London Auhtority to deliver the Angel Business Climate Challenge programme for the benefit of our BID…
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Angel Business News – March 2022
To read a monthly round-up of the latest business news from the Angel including grant deadlines and opportunities, and marketing initiatives please click on the link below: http://mailchi.mp/069ee5d0d3a0/latest-news-from-angellondon-march-2022
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B**P!
If you’re startled by a noise in the street that isn’t quite table etiquette, you could be next to one of our new Belly Bins announcing it’s full – and hassling the waste team to come and empty it. By…
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Begging – the question, give or not to give?
You may have noticed an increase in beggars and people sleeping on the streets at Angel. They are attracted here because people are so generous with their donations. Homeless charities and Angel Police Team say it’s not good to give…
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BETTER AIR
We’ve already made great progress towards cleaner air – by signing up 270 BID businesses to our Angel-wide free recycling we’re reducing waste-related traffic by six lorries a day. That means less pollution and less congestion. We are keeping an…
READ MORE >BRIGHTER: London Car Free Day: Sunday 22 September
London Car Free Day takes on Sunday 22 September and Islington is taking part with the creation of a ‘Big Play Street’. A section of St John Street between Clerkenwell Road and Charterhouse Street will be shut to through traffic and is open for…
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Business (as best) as usual
A high-viz jacket is never far away but we’re delighted to welcome shoppers and diners back to Camden Passage. And we’d like to say a BIG thank you to all the businesses and organisations who have rolled up their sleeves…
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Business collection and recycling services – Christmas and New Year duty schedule
The collection and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our team will be working on the 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th December. The team will continue to undertake their bespoke collection services and will deliver…
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Business waste and collection and recycling – Christmas and New Year schedules
The collection and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our team will be working on the 24th, 29th, 30th and 31st December. The team will continue to undertake their bespoke collection services and will deliver bags and stickers (requests MUST be made…
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CLEANER – 21 June 2018, Clean Air Day in Angel
Calling all walkers, cyclists, wannabe-cyclists and anyone concerned about air pollution. Thursday 21st June is Clean Air Day and Islington Council is putting on an event in Angel to celebrate the cleaner ways to travel. Representatives will be on the…
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CLEANER – angel.london collection and recycling services over the Christmas period
The business waste collections and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our recycling team will be working every day over the Christmas period with the exception of Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The team will…
READ MORE >CLEANER – Cleaner Heat Cashback Scheme for Small Businesses
If you’re a small business in London and have an older, inefficient heating system you may be eligible for 30 to 40 per cent cashback when you replace it with a new, cleaner system. What are the benefits? 30 to…
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CLEANER – Cut personal deliveries to your office this Christmas
Did you know that almost 40% of all deliveries to offices in London are now personal items? And this can reach a staggering 65% in the run up to Christmas. Every individual delivery adds to traffic congestion and pollution in London….
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CLEANER – Easter waste collection and recycling shedules
The business waste collection and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the Easter period. The team will undertake their bespoke collection service from Monday to Friday (including Good Friday and Bank Holiday Monday). Islington Council (who collect our recycling) have…
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CLEANER – Free Christmas tree recycling collection service for BID levy payers
We are pleased to confirm that we will be offering a FREE Christmas tree recycling collection service for BID levy payers in the early new year. To take advantage of our FREE collection service (Islington Council normally charges £20) please…
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CLEANER – New fresh drinking water fountain on Islington Green
As part of the Mayor of London’s Drinking Fountain Fund, our very own Islington Green has got a brand new free fresh water fountain. The new fountain (although to be honest its more of a fresh water dispenser than a fountain) is…
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CLEANER – Now you see it, now you don’t!
Here at angel.london we love cycling as an environmentally friendly way to travel and we want to ensure that all bike users have places to lock up their bikes. What we don’t like is when old and clearly abandoned bikes…
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CLEANER – Planning a spring clean? Don’t forget our FREE recycling services
If you’re planning to have a clear-out of your office, store cupboards, or even kitchen, don’t forget that angel.london offers seven different recycling services for FREE! The ‘magnificent seven’ as we like to call them cover paper, cardboard, coffee grounds,…
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CLEANER – Solar panels group buying scheme for businesses
Solar Together London, a group buying scheme for solar panels organised by the GLA, is open to businesses and third sector organisations looking at installations of up to 10kW in size. You can register your interest for free by 22 October, after which…
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CLEANER – The three new ‘C’s of our recycling: Coffee, Cups and Cutlery!!
The harm that disposable drinking vessels are doing to our planet is BIG news at the moment and the difficulties in recycling single-use coffee cups regularly hit the headlines. Well, here at angel.london we are always looking at ways we…
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CLEANER – Working collectively to manage our collective waste!
Yesterday we hosted our monthly meeting with Islington’s waste management team. At these vital meetings, attended by both senior managers and the on-street cleaners themselves, we are able to discuss a whole range of matters relating to street cleanliness, rubbish…
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CLEANER – Easter Bank Holiday doesn’t affect our recycling services
As many businesses know angel.london offers a range of FREE recycling services from paper & cardboard to coffee grounds. Well, in case you were wondering, we can proudly confirm that the upcoming Easter Bank Holiday will NOT affect our services….
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CLEANER – New bins… No ifs, no butts!
Have you spotted the new bins that are on the streets around the BID area? Probably not… Well, the new bins started to be installed earlier this month and the programme of replacement will go on until June by which…
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CLEANER & SAFER – Improved pedestrian paving on Liverpool Road
As well as our ‘big picture’ work, here at angel.london we’re the BID that gets the little things sorted to improve the landscape of Angel to help create the best trading environment for businesses. We’re delighted with the work that…
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CLEANER: Enter the Camden & Islington Sustainability Awards 2019
Don’t miss this opportunity to promote your sustainability achievements and help to inspire and encourage other organisations. The Camden & Islington Sustainability Awards are open to all organisations across both boroughs. There are eight categories to celebrate award winners from…
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Designing out crime
After a slew of complaints about mini-cabs obstructing traffic and pedestrians on Liverpool Road and ice-cream vans idling and their fumes choking people relaxing on the lawn in Angel Central, we decided to act. Working with Islington Council, we got…
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Ensure your business is COVID-19 Secure
It is vital for businesses to ensure that they are COVID-19 Secure and adhering to the rules around NHS Test & Trace, service procedures and social distancing etc. Hospitality venues check-in Since 29 March, every visitor to a hospitality venue is required to check-in…
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Final flooded business opens its doors
Thai Square has re-opened! It’s the last business that was flooded by December’s water main burst to open its doors again. Since the flood six businesses have disappeared but our community spirit hasn’t. Camden Passage shops, restaurants and antiques traders…
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Free ‘Welcome Back’ Pack from Islington Council
Islington Council is offering all customer facing businesses a free ‘Welcome Back’ pack. The Welcome Back pack includes social distancing posters for display in your window, bright floor stickers to help you manage queuing and one way systems and additional guidance and advice that will…
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Free graffiti removal
Graffiti – is it art or is it a crime? However clever, it’s not amusing when you get to work and someone has drawn all over your business. Cleaning off graffiti is one of the services we at angel.london offer…
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Housekeeping
You probably haven’t noticed that we’ve improved the pavement outside CoffeeWorksProject on Islington High Street (why would you?) but we’re always busy behind the scenes making essential things better. This time we worked with Islington Council to remove trip hazards and…
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KEEP UP THE PRESSURE – SIGN AGAINST BUSINESS RATE RISES HERE
Sign our petition against the business rate rises
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Make it a clean air day every day
It’s National Clear Air Day once a year (June 21 2018) but we’re working with Cross River Partnership to urge everyone to spend time EVERY DAY thinking about doing your bit to clean up our air. When did you last…
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NEW Angel waste/recycling times
Angel waste/recycling times 6-7pm – ALL STREETS (including Upper Street) angel.london recycling & all business waste. Put our free angel.london recycling where you normally put your business waste. 12 midnight-1am UPPER STREET ONLY – angel.london recycling & all business waste….
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Next meetings with Thames Water
July 12 6.30pm public meeting at the Business Design Centre – it’s important that as many people as possible go along to speak to Sarah McMath, the new Managing Director of Wholesale Water at Thames Water.
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Next Thames Water public meeting
Will be at 6.30pm on February 28 at the Hilton Hotel on Upper Street with the new managing director of Wholesale Water Sarah McMath. Do attend if you can – there are plenty of businesses and residents who haven’t had…
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Now we even collect your unwanted white goods
We’ve just added white goods to the list of things you no longer need that we can collect for free. This is in addition to the six recycling services we already offer – paper, cardboard, plastics, printer cartridges, furniture swap…
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Oil can dumpers caught & fined
Selfish fly-tippers have been slapped with a £400 a fine after businesses complained to us that cans full of used cooking oil were regularly dumped behind Upper Street. Some mornings workers arrived to find 20 cans of stinking oil behind…
READ MORE >Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend operational update
BUSINESS WASTE AND RECYCLING Standard business recycling services will continue over the extended bank holiday weekend, so please present your bags and stickered cardboard bundles out for collection as normal. Recycling bags & Stickers – If you require recycling bags and stickers to cover the extended bank holiday…
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RECYCLE IT. SAVE £££s
Are you recycling with us? There’s no excuse not to when you see the figures. Our six free recycling services are saving businesses a total of £7,000 per month. We’re filling three lorry loads a day – if everyone was…
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RECYCLING REMINDER
New recycling Our new recycling service is a month old and we hope everyone is familiar with the evening times. Our recycling boys are going out every day checking if anyone has mistakenly put their stuff out and reminding them…
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Recycling times are changing – why and how
In order to make the streets cleaner and more accessible, Islington Council is changing the times that waste can be put out for collection across the borough. This applies to all business waste – regardless of which contractor you use –…
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Register your business for free on the Clean Air Villages Directory
11 Aug 2020 – If your business offers delivery services via ultra-low emission vehicles, cargo bikes or by foot then you can register your business for free on the Clean Air Villages Directory. Managed by the Cross River Partnership (of which…
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Road closures update
Brace yourselves! The latest from Thames Water is that due to the next phase of work on the Upper Street water main, the following traffic changes will take from August 16 to the end of October. All southbound lanes will…
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SMART BUSINESS SAVERS
Whoever you are, whatever your business, our six free recycling services can save you money. It saves many smart businesses far more than they pay in BID levy. Here’s the proof – we’ve made all these annual savings for your…
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Spraying spree
Vandals defaced a number of Upper Street businesses with graffiti recently which we cleaned off the next morning. Don’t forget this service is still FREE to all angel.london members. Says Carrie at Knight Frank: “Thanks for a fantastic response. The…
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STRONGER – Angel Business Survey 2018: Results
Following completion of our Annual Business Survey 2018 by The Retail Group in August, we are pleased to share the full results of this year’s survey. The report covers many aspects regarding business in the Angel including customer segmentation, travel…
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STRONGER – Inside Angel, Spring 2019 edition
We are delighted to have published our latest edition of ‘Inside Angel’, our quarterly publication giving businesses the lowdown on all that’s going on in the Angel. The spring 2019 edition includes a round up of the great results our…
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STRONGER – Our Annual Review 2018/19 published
We are pleased to publish our Annual Review 2018/19. The Review contains details of how angel.london has performed against our commitments over the last year, and our ‘promises’ and budget for 2019/20. Printed copies of the Annual Review have been…
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STRONGER: Inside Angel – Summer 2019 edition published
We are delighted to publish the latest edition of ‘Inside Angel’, our quarterly publication giving businesses the lowdown on all that’s going on in the Angel. The summer 2019 edition includes a round up of activities and initiatives in the…
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STRONGER: Save money on your energy bills with Nationwide Utilities
We understand that energy can be a significant cost to our BID levy payers and knowing when to secure your contracts and finding the right supplier at the time can also be complex and time consuming. To help you save…
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Take part in a Volunteering Taster Day on 19 July
The BIG Alliance invites local businesses to volunteer alongside others at Caledonian Park, a much-loved community green space in Islington. Date: Tuesday 19th July 2022 Timings: The day will be split into two shifts, with an AM and PM session. Volunteers can opt to attend either…
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THERE’S GOOD RECYCLING, AND THERE’S THIS…
There’s good recycling, and there’s this… ..it’s been driving us and Upper Street businesses crazy for well over a year now – who’s been regularly dumping cans of used cooking oil overnight in St Albans Place? Some mornings, several times…
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THREE INTO TWO
You might be wondering why you haven’t seen Damion (left) from our recycling team for a while? Well, don’t worry, he hasn’t moved on. In fact, he hasn’t moved anywhere – he’s laid up with a broken leg. Both Rhys…
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Tidier streets
We’ve always got our eye on how we can keep improving the Angel and, working with Islington Council, we’ve just finished some pavement works making Islington High Street better. We’ve replaced some uneven York stones and added bonded gravel on…
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