Destination Chesterfield

Chesterfield Photo Competition – Win a year’s supply of Frederick’s Ice Cream and see your photo in print!

Have you taken the best summer photo of Chesterfield?

The sunny weather hasinspired the new Destination Chesterfield team to gather a photo album of all the best images of the town to show the rest of the country just how good it is here.

This is your chance of fame as the best photographs may be published in a brand new Summer brochure that will we be sent to thousands of people in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.

Plus, the photograph voted as the best-ofthe-best will win a year’s supply of Fredericks Ice Cream. If you are wondering how much a year’s supply is we have based it on having one ice cream every-single-day of the year, which amounts to 60 big tubs of ice cream. However we do recommend that, in the spirit of healthy eating, the winner share’s their ice cream!

To enter just publish them to our Flickr group onwww.flickr.com/groups/chesterfield or email them todominic.stevens@dncc.co.uk

The best images will also be posted on www.chesterfield.co.uk/summerthroughout June and July.

Guidelines

The judges will be looking for summer seasonal photos with great local scenery and happy locals. It could be your favourite building, an event you attended, they can be quirky or traditional as long as they show what is best about Chesterfield.

If you want the chance of fame by appearing in print in Chesterfield’s Summer brochure it will need to have been submitted before 15/06/2011 and be available in high resolution (300dpi).

However the ice cream prize is not restricted and will go to the photo that the judges believe sums up summer in Chesterfield the best, regardless of resolution and content.

So send in your photos of Chesterfield we all want to them on our Flickr group!

Terms and conditions for this competition are available at www.chesterfield.co.uk/summer.

The closing date for this competition is 15/06/2011 but we welcome any further photos to our Flicker group at any time.

Thanks to Fredericks Ice Cream, Crush Design and The Derbyshire Times for the support of this competition.

Source:Destination Chesterfield

Posted in Destination Chesterfield, Summer

It’s Destination Chesterfield for College students

Forming part of their course, the students have been promoting Chesterfield across the local areas of the College’s three campuses, explaining just how much there is to do in the town such as places to eat, play sport and shop. As part of the drive the students put up posters, handed out flyers and manned information desks all in a bid to raise the awareness of the amount of things to do in Chesterfield.

Dom Stevens of Destination Chesterfield said “Destination Chesterfield are pleased to be working with Chesterfield College’s Travel and Tourism students, it is a great opportunity for them to use the skills they are developing to promote the place they live or study in and to raise awareness of what is happening in the town. The students have been enthusiastically promoting things to do, shopping and places to eat and drink as well as the future development sites and the Chesterfielduk facebook and twitter pages to not only fellow students but visitors to the College as well.”

Source:Chesterfield College & Destination Chesterfield

Posted in About Chesterfield, Destination Chesterfield

First look for Chesterfield Champions

Businesses leaders in Chesterfield discussed the next stages of the Destination Chesterfield Project over breakfast at the Red Lion at Stonedge and enjoyed an exclusive glimpse of the town’s latest boutique hotel which is due to open in April.

Destination Chesterfield, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Chesterfield Borough Council and the local business community is helping to improve the economic prosperity of the town through a campaign to promote Chesterfield. This new approach to promoting the town sees local businesses playing a central role in its success.

Destination Chesterfield Manager, Dom Stevens, presented the achievements so far, the future plans for the project and then delivered a workshop with the businesses to develop these campaigns.

The attendees then donned hard hats to have a behind the scenes tour of the Red Lion’s new hotel rooms the latest regeneration project taking shape in the area.

Peter Swallow, Chair of Destination Chesterfield said “This meeting was all about action, about what we have achieved since the launch in September, what we will deliver in the next 2 years and how local businesses as Champions will support these plans.”

Vic Risorto, a Chesterfield Champion and owner of Calabria, said “It was great to have the opportunity to feed in our ideas and discuss what we as local businesses can add to the project. This is an exciting time for Chesterfield and I am looking forward to working with Destination Chesterfield to deliver the campaigns”

Damian Dugdale, a Chesterfield Champion, and owner of the Red Lion said “This event gave Chesterfield Champions an exclusive preview of what we have planned at the Red Lion. Our development and the other regeneration projects around the town are all exciting additions to a changing Chesterfield.”

Images of the event can be viewed on the Destination Chesterfield facebook page

For further information on Chesterfield and the Chesterfield Champions Scheme visit www.chesterfield.co.uk  or follow us on twitter @chesterfielduk

Source:Destination Chesterfield

Posted in Destination Chesterfield

Destination Chesterfield Manager Appointed

Dom Stevens has been appointed as Destination Chesterfield Manager, his role will be to manage the new Chesterfield brand and drive forward the Chesterfield Champions project.

Dom who was born in Chesterfield and grew up in Derbyshire was previously Destination Marketing Manager at marketing gloucester ltd.

Dom Stevens said “I am looking forward to working with local businesses to promote Chesterfield to the world.  The town is perfectly located and has a number of exciting regeneration projects making it an excellent place to invest, work, live and visit.”

For further information on Destination Chesterfield and the Chesterfield Champions contact 01246 207207 or email dominic.stevens@dncc.co.uk

Source:Destination Chesterfield

Posted in Destination Chesterfield

First Champions Meeting at ‘Casa’

The first Chesterfield Champions meeting took place in December at Chesterfield’s first four star hotel, Casa. The event was attended by over 50 businesses who were champions or interested in the scheme.

The event included a breakfast and networking session plus a personal presentation from Steve Perez on his investment in The Casa and his commitment to growing his business in Chesterfield. Local busineeses attending were one of the first to have a tour of the hotel and to hear more about what the Champions scheme can offer businessess.

For existing Champions there was an invitation to stay on after the event for a workshop session on the future plans for Destination Chesterfield. This was an opportunity to be directly involved in shaping the next stage of the Destination Chesterfield project.

For further information on becoming a ‘Chesterfield Champion’ or future events contact Dom Stevens on 01246 207207 or email dominic.stevens@dncc.co.uk

Source:Destination Chesterfield

Posted in About Chesterfield, Destination Chesterfield

Taking a fresh look at Chesterfield

Local business leaders and Chesterfield Borough Council have announced their plans to help improve the economic prosperity of the town through a campaign to promote Chesterfield as a modern, contemporary destination. The ‘Destination Chesterfield’ project, funded through money from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), was launched today (Tuesday 28th September) to nearly 200 private and public sector organisations at the town’s new b2net football stadium.

The project has been driven by Chesterfield Borough Council and key local business people. It builds on existing achievements to deliver a new approach in promoting the town and Borough’s many assets and regeneration projects to further improve what Chesterfield has to offer. Funding has now been secured from the ERDF to deliver this new approach with the local business community playing a central role in its success.

The town, famous for its iconic Crooked Spire and markets, is attracting interest and investment from a number of key developers and its physical assets, along with its central location, rich heritage, and modernity of the place are all helping to build its confidence and vibrancy as a place to live, study, invest and visit.

Cllr Ray Russell, Leader of Chesterfield Borough Council said: “This is a project of strategic importance to the Borough.

No single organisation owns the place of Chesterfield. We all have a stake in its future and this project brings together public and private sectors to speak confidently about the place and what Chesterfield has to offer to business, investors and visitors.”

A variety of marketing materials have been produced to support the Destination Chesterfield project. These are available through the ‘Chesterfield Champions’ programme which encourages businesses to positively promote Chesterfield to help make the town more competitive, attract new investment and improve its offer.

Bolsterstone Group plc, one of the organisations behind the town’s largest regeneration project – ‘Chesterfield Waterside’ – has become one of the first Chesterfield Champions and Pete Swallow, Managing Director said: “It’s a very competitive time for places and businesses and it’s important for potential investors and visitors to understand what we have to offer so they can choose to come here.

The Destination Chesterfield project is a great opportunity for all organisations in the town to come together and share their part in promoting the Chesterfield story with more confidence and consistency, which will benefit the whole of the local economy in the longer term. We jumped at the chance to join and to influence how we promote ourselves.”

 

Source:Chesterfield Borough Council

Posted in Destination Chesterfield

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