Press Release News & Updates
- 9th October 2017
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has proved that it takes the lead in caring for stray dogs by winning the RSPCA Gold Community Animal Welfare Footprint Award for the third year running.
Hotel and investment company Nine Group - under its subsidiary SARR Investments LTD - has extended and refurbished the Crowne Plaza Basingstoke, which opened on 5th September.
- 4th October 2017
There’s been a lot going on lately at Basingstoke-based shopping centre, Festival Place, with a rebrand and refurbishment programme currently underway.
- 3rd October 2017
Basingstoke’s first flashmob dance will take to the streets during a spectacular lantern-lit parade as the popular Day of the Dead returns to Top of the Town next month.
- 3rd October 2017
A private place to wash and freshen up is something that most of us – fortunately - take for granted.
- 3rd October 2017
A unique online toolkit has been launched in Basingstoke to help young people develop confidence, resilience, ambition and respect as they move on from education to the world of work.
The vital work that local community and voluntary groups do to transform lives is set to be supported with a quarter of a million pounds in funding, with the launch of the latest round of a borough council grant scheme.
- 24th July 2017
On 27th July the shopping centre will be launching ‘21st Century Tales’, a month-long writing competition which will give Basingstoke’s budding young writers the opportunity to showcase their talents for the chance to win a £100 Waterstones voucher.
Keeping Basingstoke’s historic heart at the Top of the Town as a focus for independent business and developing its identity as a cultural quarter is the aim of an action plan backed by the council.
A vision to establish Basingstoke and Deane as a renowned centre of excellence for the arts has been agreed, to keep the spirit of Basingstoke Festival going all year-long.