Ahead of the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels and hairdressers this weekend, we have updated our Kingston Re-opening Guidance in line with the latest government and council advice. It's just been sent out in our bi-weekly update to Kingston First members, or you can take a look on our... read more →
Jul
02
Jun
23
Today, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that from 4 July pubs, restaurants, hotels, hairdressers and barbers will be able to re-open and social distancing measures will be reduced from 2 metres to 1 metre ‘plus’. Sector-by-sector guidance is due to be published in the coming days with advice... read more →
Jun
18
Knowing the hard work and community spirit that's gone into getting retailers reopen over the last few weeks, we put Kingston forward to the media and were delighted to secure a feature on BBC London News on Monday 15 June. Kingston was featured alongside our friends at New West End... read more →
Jun
18
To help you with reopening, we've created two sets of assets you can use yourself to promote your business and help manage social distancing. We've created an A4 document you can print yourselves to signpost how many customers you're allowing in your store at once. Just print, fill in the... read more →
Jun
10
In order to support businesses and organisations across Kingston town centre who are planning to re-open over the coming weeks, we have produced Kingston town centre Re-opening Guidance which can be downloaded here. The document provides an overview of town centre updates, Council updates and projects and services we... read more →
Jun
02
At Friday 29 June's 5pm press conference, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that from August employers will have to start to share the cost of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and he confirmed that he will extend the Self Employed Income Support Scheme to August. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Employer... read more →
Jun
02
Click here to download a PDF of our latest weekly Keeping You Informed newsletter, or read it below. We have detailed below announcements from this week on retail and dentist re-opening dates, the creation of a London Transition Board and updates on some of the government support packages. As part... read more →
May
28
In order to help us better shape the projects and services we are developing to support your business needs as a result of the pandemic and aid our planning to re-open the town centre, we ask you to give us a few moments of your time to answer a few... read more →
May
28
To re-boot London’s economy, The Mayor of London and Government this week announced they have joined forces to launch the London Transition Board. Headed up by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, the board will oversee London’s... read more →
May
27
On Monday 25 May, the Prime Minster Boris Johnson announced the next step in the ‘Conditional plan’ to re-start the economy and ease the lockdown restrictions by confirming that from 15 June all non-essential retailers would be able to re-open. The Prime Minister confirmed that, subject to ongoing progress... read more →