A BUSINESS Improvement District (BID) is to be launched in Bradford after city centre businesses gave it a massive YES! vote in a month-long postal ballot. More than 630 businesses were asked to vote on setting up the BID, which plans to raise £2.5 million to spend on projects to boost the city centre over

THE campaign to set up a Business Improvement District (BID) in Bradford city centre has brought together some of the district’s top firms in support. More than 630 businesses and other organisations – from independent shops to chain stores, from professional services firms to hotels, bars and restaurants, from museums to education providers – have

THE LAST chance for city centre businesses to vote in the Bradford BID ballot is fast approaching. Postal voting to determine whether the Business Improvement District will go ahead has been taking place since September 13 but the ballot closes at 5pm this Thursday. Ian Ward, chairman of the BID development board and general manager

THE FIRST business improvement district – or BID – in the world was set up in a small suburb of Toronto, in Canada, in 1970. The concept proved so popular that just a few years later it moved to the United States where it has continued to grow. Astonishingly, there are now 67 BIDs in

TWO OF Bradford’s oldest and most prestigious hotels have joined forces to urge businesses to “Vote Yes!” for a city centre business improvement district. With a raft of new hotels opening in the city over the last few years, filling rooms has become an increasingly competitive business but the managers of the Great Victoria Hotel,

BRADFORD’S own national museum says it has already voted in favour of setting up a business improvement district in the city centre and now it is urging others to get behind the “exciting” plans. Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum (NSMM), pictured, says the BID will provide significant benefits for the

THE Bradford BID could play a major role in boosting the city’s economy by encouraging more visitors and tourists, say business leaders. According to the most recent available figures, overnight and day visitors spent an estimated £472 million in the district in 2016, up 10 per cent on the previous year. Ian Ward, chairman of

THE chief executive of one of the district’s most influential business groups says a Yes vote for Bradford BID could make a “critical difference” to the city centre’s future prospects. Trevor Higgins (pictured), of Bradford Breakthrough, said businesses in the heart of the city are in urgent need of support and a business improvement district

THE CRUCIAL ballot on the future of the proposed £2.5 million business improvement district for Bradford is underway at last! More than 630 businesses and other organisations have just under a month to vote on whether they wish to pay an annual levy to provide a safer, cleaner, more animated and better promoted city centre

ONE OF Bradford’s newest businesses says it is backing the BID wholeheartedly because it “strongly believes in Bradford.” Bread and Roses is a new café and co-operative workspace which opened its doors on August 1 in North Parade. It was created by a group of Bradford-based people and organisations who have come together to establish