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Aldgate Connect Community Fund supports community projects with £15k

Aldgate Connect Community Fund supports community projects with £15k

Since launching in 2022, the Aldgate Connect Community Fund has helped to support some truly impactful community projects across Aldgate. The Fund has provided vital funding and re...

Phone Marking Sessions Helping Combat Mobile Theft

Phone Marking Sessions Helping Combat Mobile Theft

Aldgate Connect BID has joined the other City Business Improvement Districts, alongside the City Business Partnership, to partner with the City of London Police and Metropolitan Po...

What’s On in Aldgate this May

What’s On in Aldgate this May

May has arrived, bringing brighter days, bank holidays just around the corner, and a What’s On Guide designed to keep your calendar effortlessly full. What more could you ask for...

Toast the City 2026: Nominations Now Open!

Toast the City 2026: Nominations Now Open!

That's right, Toast the City Awards return for a second year, bigger, better and more ambitious than before. Aldgate Connect BID is proud to join the other City BIDs in supporti...

That’s A Wrap: Aldgate Egg Hunt 2026

That’s A Wrap: Aldgate Egg Hunt 2026

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Aldgate Egg Hunt this year to make it the best one to date! This year's Aldgate Egg Hunt too place across 20th March - 6th April and...

Get Involved with the Gravel Lane Windows Project

Get Involved with the Gravel Lane Windows Project

As part of the construction work to expand the City of London Police’s Eastern Base at Middlesex Street Estate, the City of London want to keep the new shopfronts on Gravel Lane ...

Latest Webinars on the Aldgate Training Hub

Latest Webinars on the Aldgate Training Hub

Our free online learning platform has a range of exciting webinars planned this month, including introduction to ESG, How to Understand Others, Power BI, and Mental Health Essentia...

Winning Design Announced for ‘A Place to Belong’ Aldgate Connect Design Competition

Winning Design Announced for ‘A Place to Belong’ Aldgate Connect Design Competition

We’re pleased to join London Festival of Architecture (powered by NLA) in announcing OUT Architecture’s Macchiato, as the winning design for our 'A Place to Belong: Goulston St...

What’s On in Aldgate this April

What’s On in Aldgate this April

We aren't April Fooling with this action-packed guide to Aldgate this month. Discover scavenger hunts, creative connection and just a hint of cheekiness. Everything you need to mak...

Crack the Egg: The Leader Board

Crack the Egg: The Leader Board

Unveiled: The Leader Board for the ultimate Aldgate Team Challenge This year's edition of the Aldgate Egg Hunt has brought the ultimate Aldgate Team Challenge to the area, which i...

Ally the Aldgate Bunny – Meet & Greet

Ally the Aldgate Bunny – Meet & Greet

The Aldgate Egg Hunt returns this year and with it the iconic Ally the Aldgate Bunny! Running from 20th March to 6th April, the 2026 edition of the Aldgate Egg Hunt returns fo...

City of Women Choir Celebrates International Women’s Day

City of Women Choir Celebrates International Women’s Day

Aldgate Connect BID is delighted to join Music in Offices and Cheapside Business Alliance to celebrate International Women’s Day. Come and join us on Thursday 12th March to sing...

Aldgate Gardening Club: Growing Herbs

Aldgate Gardening Club: Growing Herbs

Join us for the next Aldgate Gardening Club workshop and grow your own herbs! Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026 Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm Location: The White Chapel Building, 10 Whitech...

Aldgate Egg Hunt is back for its 5th year!

Aldgate Egg Hunt is back for its 5th year!

The Aldgate Egg Hunt returns this year with egg-citing new additions for everyone to enjoy! Running from 20th March to 6th April, the 2026 edition of the Aldgate Egg Hunt ...

Crack the Egg: The Aldgate Team Challenge

Crack the Egg: The Aldgate Team Challenge

Step away from the desk and take on Aldgate's ultimate team challenge. Dates: Tuesday 31st March or Wednesday 1st April Time Slots: Available across 12:00-2:00pm Start Meet-up...

What’s On in Aldgate this March

What’s On in Aldgate this March

This March, Aldgate steps into spring with an exciting mix of tours, treats, workshops and trails for everyone to enjoy. Explore what’s on this month: Aldgate Egg Hunt | 20th ...

Aldgate Connect BID proudly supports the Pink Jukebox Trophy at Bishopsgate Institute

Aldgate Connect BID proudly supports the Pink Jukebox Trophy at Bishopsgate Institute

Aldgate Connect BID is proud to support the 2026 edition of the Pink Jukebox Trophy, bringing together dancers from across the globe for the long running annual same-sex Ballroom a...

Duchamp & Sons x Max Murray Film Installation

Duchamp & Sons x Max Murray Film Installation

Aldgate Connect BID is proudly supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s youth collective, Duchamp & Sons, in their new film installation co-created with artist Maz Murray. Install...

Aldgate Gardening Club – Bottle Terrariums Workshop

Aldgate Gardening Club – Bottle Terrariums Workshop

Join us for the next Aldgate Gardening Club workshop and make your own terrarium-in-a-bottle! Date: Monday 16th March 2026 Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm Location: sYp, 19 Bevis Marks, L...

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training

Aldgate Connect BID is proud to bring this Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training opportunity to our business community, in partnership with Bridge Watch. Date: Tuesday 24th ...

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