BRADFORD will be one of the last towns and cities in West Yorkshire to launch a BID, if the scheme goes ahead later this year. Leeds established its BID in 2015, the same year as Keighley. Skipton and Otley BIDs were up and running a year before and Halifax and Wakefield set up their schemes

MORE than nine in ten of those who took part in the feasibility study into a BID in Bradford said they felt the city centre would benefit from the additional cash the scheme would bring in. The study was carried out between July and November last year and received more than 200 responses, representing about

PROMOTING Bradford to the outside world will be one of the major projects for the BID. The feasibility study identified that 81 per cent of businesses in the BID area felt that the city’s image both locally and nationally was one of the main reasons why they considered the city to be under-performing. Improving the

About 600 city centre businesses will get the chance to vote on whether they want the Business Improvement District to go ahead when ballot papers are issued in September. But there is a great deal of work to do and several formal steps that need to be completed before that point. The next few months

This is the Year of the BID. After almost 12 months of preparatory work, the campaign to set up a Business Improvement District for Bradford city centre is getting underway in earnest. Business leaders steering the campaign have just nine months to persuade more than 600 retailers, professional services companies and other firms and organisations

BRADFORD’S historic Little Germany quarter is to be included in the city’s planned Business Improvement District. The area was not included in the original plans for the BID, which centres around The Broadway and Kirkgate shopping centres, City Park, the markets and the Leisure Exchange. But the district’s business leaders have now decided to throw

Business leaders seeking to boost the fortunes of Bradford city centre have welcomed a report which shows a similar scheme in neighbouring Keighley is having a positive impact. The town’s Business Improvement District (BID) has only been running for two years but it has been so successful that it is already likely businesses will vote

Business leader says district can realise its dreams (Telegraph & Argus)

The Bradford BID Development Group, which was set up to investigate the possible creation of a Business Improvement District for the city centre, has appointed a local company to handle its Public Relations. Bradford-based Yorkshire Media Partners Ltd, led by the former editor of the Telegraph & Argus, Perry Austin-Clarke, will officially take up its