New West End Company works closely with public partners and our wider West End businesses, organisations and residents to ensure that the projects and activities delivered are in the best interests of our community.
Neighbourhood Forums
As a BID, we bring together the voices of the business community and ensure that any planned activity or projects benefit the wider West End.
New West End Company sit on all four Neighbourhood Forum’s in the West End. The Mayfair Forum, Soho Forum, Fitzrovia West Forum & Marylebone Forum. These Forums, consisting of businesses, community groups and residents, help safeguard the unique, individual districts that make up the West End.
Click the links below to find out more about each forum.
Working with the Lord Mayor of Westminster
Supporting the Lord Mayor’s chosen charity partners, Carers Network and The Passage.
Carers Network was established in 1991 to support unpaid carers. Supporting people caring for partners, family members, friends and neighbours aged over 18 with disabilities and long-term conditions or experiencing frailty due to old age. Carers Network’s services are available free of charge to unpaid carers living in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Each year, Carers Network helps over 6.600 local carers gain access to the support they deserve.
Founded in 1980 by Cardinal Basil Hume and The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, The Passage is based in the heart of Westminster, providing practical support and a wide range of services to help transform the lives of people who are, or are at risk of, street homelessness
Click below to find out more about each charity and donate.
New West End Garden
In 2018 New West End Company and The Portman Estate created the ‘Wild West End Garden’ in partnership with Wild West End, Baker Street Quarter BID, Marble Arch BID and FM Conway.
‘New West End Garden’ was designed and produced by award-winning garden designer Kate Gould and was showcased at the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden transformed an urban side street off Oxford Street into a people-friendly green space for workers, residents and visitors to enjoy.
The garden vastly improved the area showing an increase of 47% of people walking through the street and 64% increase in self-reported wellbeing by visitors.
In 2021 the garden was removed to make way for a more permanent feature and New West End Company donated the trees to the local community. The trees found happy homes in Portman Early Childhood Centre, Grand Junction community Centre and other projects elsewhere in London, including a permanent home for trees as part of the Westminster Bridge Road regeneration project in Lambeth.
