Month: March 2015

Vauxhall underground station will also be completely closed over the same weekend, 27 – 30 March, with no services stopping at Vauxhall and no ticketing facilities open.

Vauxhall national rail and Vauxhall bus station will operate as normal, but expect these services to be busier.

Winning a Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award is your opportunity to highlight your community engagement achievements to clients, internal stakeholders and competitors.

The prestigious Awards, hosted by the Lord Mayor, recognise excellence in corporate community involvement benefitting Greater London and are open for application from Monday 16 March to 5pm Monday 18 May.

Previous winners include GL Hearn, Lakehouse, Slaughter and May, and Hogan Lovells International LLP. Making an application to one of our six categories is free of charge and all applicants will receive a complimentary invite to the illustrious Awards dinner at the Mansion House on 30 September 2015.

As a member of the Vauxhall BID community, you know better than most that paying for services only for when you need them is the smart choice.

We have teamed up with Zipcar to offer a free year’s membership, giving you access to a car or van whenever you need one, without having to own one.

Zipcar have over 1,500 cars and vans bookable by the hour or the day parked across London

Best of all, they include fuel, insurance and the Congestion Charge in their rates, which start at just £3.96/hour.

Why use zipcar?

• Over 1,500 cars & vans – Our vehicles are parked in handy on-street bays across London, near your work and home.
• What’s included? Starting at £4.79/hour for a VW Polo, our rates include insurance, 40 miles free fuel and the Congestion Charge
• Account information – All booking information is available online and you can downloaded your statements too!

Vauxhall One have teamed up with City Car Club to bring BID members an exclusive introductory offer.

Join today and get your first year’s corporate membership for free plus receive £75 worth of drive time as an added bonus.

City Car Club enable businesses to move away from the cost and complexity of company cars, taxis and pool cars to a flexible, sustainable and cost-effective means of business travel.

“City Car Club has completely changed the way we approach business travel. It’s a really convenient and cost-effective way of making short journeys in and around the city. It has allowed us to be much more flexible and professional, plus we’ve been able to significantly cut business travel costs.” IBI Group

Become a member today

• 24/7/365 access to a network of more than 800 vehicles spread across 17 UK cities including London, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh.
• Forget about the cost of fleet vehicles, maintenance, fuel, parking costs, tax, insurance and all those other motoring expenses as it’s included in your membership.
• No longer spend time processing mileage expense claims, parking permits, checking employee’s insurance certificates as City Car Club look after it all.
• Take advantage of some of the lowest CO2 emitting vehicles on the market – support your CSR policy, reduce your carbon footprint and improve your environmental credentials.
• Get your team where they need to be, when they need to be there – reservation to driving in less than 5 minutes with City Car Club’s handy iPhone app and mobile site.

For more information about City Car Club visit www.citycarclub.co.uk/business

The new ‘Vauxhall Perk’ will have incredible local offers from local businesses to the employees and residents of Vauxhall.

From the 16th March, Vauxhall One will send a brand new offer straight to your inbox every Monday morning. But hurry, these fantastic offers will only last for a limited time, so be quick in order to enojoy your Vauxhall Perk!

From restaurant deals to beauty treatments Vauxhall Perk offers will give you the insider deal on all the amazing local businesses have to offer.

How it works

To redeem your weekly Perk simply print out that week’s email and take it with you to the participating business, or show the email on your smart phone.

To sign up to receive the new weekly perks, email luke.smith@vauxhallone.co.uk with the subject “Vauxhall Perk”

Or sign-up on our website www.vauxhallone.co.uk

If you are a business and wish to be involved with the ‘Vauxhall Perk’ please email luke.smith@vauxhallone.co.uk for more information.

Pleasure is a neon sign, positioned on the Community Centre’s roof. It acts as a beacon for the centre and for the historic Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens below. Produced by Studio Long & Scenografika, both tenants of artist studios at the centre, the sign is an expression of the joy taken from all the centre has to offer the local community. It’s also a nod to the wide range of recreational activities that have been and continue to be enjoyed in and around the gardens.

The plant boxes in front of the Pleasure sign are embedded with evergreen shrubs common to coastal and cliff top environments. The light and the plants will be visible to users of the Pleasure Gardens, to railway commuters and to those who live and work in the rapidly developing area. The installations are just the beginning of a longer term project which will make greater, more colourful use of the roof and centre.

The Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, variously known as ‘New Spring Gardens’, ‘Vauxhall Gardens’ and ‘The Royal Gardens, Vauxhall’ were a popular cultural destination over the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. People headed to Vauxhall for an outdoor stroll, for food, drink and entertainment. The gardens gave London its first public art gallery and a first hearing of Handel’s Fireworks Music. Today, they are enjoying a new lease of life, hosting an ice rink in the winter months, outdoor cinema screenings in the summer and festival events throughout the year.

Around the gardens, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and a variety of clubs offer late night entertainment, while the Cabinet and Hirst Galleries, together with Beaconsfield promise access to high quality contemporary art. The Pleasure Project sets out to celebrate and contribute to this vibrant cultural landscape.

Light Manufacture: A1Designs

Horticultural Advice: Daniel Lobb MSGD

Generously funded and supported by the Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre and the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support from CLS Holdings, Martinspeed and Neal’s Nurseries, Wandsworth.