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This is Clapham website

This is Clapham is a consumer facing website designed exclusively to encourage more people to spend time and money in the area and create a positive noise about Clapham.

Restaurant or bar, café or shop, community centre or theatre, we showcase the best the area has to offer to visitors from London and beyond. It’s free for BID members and easy to build your profile.

Contact This is Clapham to get your business listed.

It is supported by the ‘This is Clapham’ BID brand that was created in early 2015 and will be the brand that promotes both the area and the work of the BID. The date of EST. 871 was created in consultation with the Clapham Society and their local history experts.

Events

This is Clapham has an annual budget for events and will seek to create an annual programme of town centres events to attract and increase footfall on the high street. This is Clapham has already organised the following events:

Christmas Lights 2014

In December 2014 This is Clapham paid for a Christmas Tree to be installed in Clapham Old Town and in partnership with Clapham Omnibus arts centre organised a carol singing procession along the High Street. It ended at the new Old Town Square whith live music, a Christmas market and Comedian Arthur Smith turning on the tree lights.

 

Clapham Art Prize

In July 2014 This is Clapham organised the Clapham Art Prize, a public art competition and exhibition. The Art Prize attracted over 100 applicants of which ten were shortlisted by judges Tim Gosling, Dermott Rowan (Orla Kiely) and Paulette Randall. Ten pieces of art were installed in businesses and empty shops around Clapham for a 10 day art exhibition. More information is available online – www.claphamartprize.com.