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