A Floral Summer of Celebration – which will bring Harrogate well and truly back into bloom – has been unveiled by town’s Business Improvement District (BID) at this week’s Spring Flower Show. Between July 15 and August 12, the town centre will be home to a floral trail featuring ten unique displays, floral-themed shop windows…
Two ‘Harrogate Hosts’, whose aim is to make the town centre a more welcoming and pleasant place to visit, have made their on-street debut. Abigail Smith and Rebecca Evans – wearing Yorkshire tweed waistcoats, flat caps and carrying messenger bags containing an array of information for visitors and residence alike – are a new addition…
Harrogate BID’s (Business Improvement District) cleaning crew are steam cleaning and jet washing ‘hot spots’ across the town centre. Ahead of the Easter holidays, the team from UK Nationwide Cleaning is spending ten nights removing grime and chewing gum in a number of areas Harrogate BID Manager Matthew Chapman said: “Walking around the town centre,…
Welcome to our March 2022 Newsletter Safe, Clean and Welcoming are three of our key priorities for Harrogate Town Centre, and this week we welcomed back our cleaning contractors for the first deep clean of the year. And it is very obvious to the see where exactly they have aleady been washing away grime and gum. In this newsletter,…
Medical treatments in medieval times will be put under the public microscope this April at an interactive pop-up museum in Harrogate town centre. Being staged within Victoria Shopping Centre, the Window on the Past will give shoppers a chance to compare modern cures and living conditions with those from almost a thousand years ago. In…
Harrogate BID has opened its 2022 Town Centre Improvements Grant scheme, to help levy payers enhance their street frontages. Qualifying businesses will be able to claim match-funded grants of up to £750 for making a variety of upgrades, including paintwork, signage, and accessibility, all designed to make Harrogate town centre safe, clean and welcoming. Harrogate…
Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) has today (Monday, March 14) launched a month-long initiative to bring visitors into Harrogate town centre to shop, eat and drink. For the next four weeks, shoppers redeeming the most deals via the LoyalFree app, will be in with a chance of winning a number of exciting prizes, including Turkish…
Welcome to our February 2022 Newsletter I don’t know about you, but the weather this weekend has made me feel that Spring is just around the corner, and with that the promise of lighter nights and warmer weather, something we will all welcome. I hope you enjoy reading our latest newsletter, which will inform you of…
Nine colourful letters, spelling out the word Harrogate, are now brightening up a drab town centre street. The mosaics have been funded by Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) and created by differently-able artists at town centre charity, Artizan International, and are now adorning the side wall of the Boots building, on Cambridge Place. Before the…
Harrogate BID are proud to be partnering with Real Food Markets, organisers of a new monthly market in Ilkley for over 5 years, will be bringing local and specialist food, drink and makers to Harrogate on the third Sunday of the month, starting on Sunday 20th February. Real Food Harrogate will be based on Crescent…
