A Harrogate charity’s quest to promote accessibility within town businesses has been given a boost by Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District). For the organisation, whose remit is to increase footfall in Harrogate town centre, has funded a set of 250 stickers for Disability Action Yorkshire to give to shops, bars and restaurants, saying they welcome…
Harrogate Business BID (Improvement District) has staged its first BID Club of 2021. The event, which was staged in Cedar Court Hotel’s Tipi on The Stray, was limited to a maximum of 30 people to comply with ongoing Covid restrictions. In addition to meeting with fellow town centre business owners and managers, those gathered were…
Harrogate’s West Park Stray plays host to a visually stunning touring art installation, from award winning artist Luke Jerram.
Harrogate BID is inviting town centre businesses to its first BID Club of 2021, when owners, managers and their staff can get to get together, mingle, and chat with their peers over a drink and nibbles. The networking event, which was last held a week before the first Covid lockdown in March, is being staged…
In view of the amount of time spent in lockdown and the length of time that businesses have had to close, Harrogate BID will honour gift cards that expired after 1st November 2020 and those that are due to expire up to the end of July 2021, with an extension of 3 months.
Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) has published its response to the £7.9m Harrogate Station Gateway project. Whilst broadly welcoming the £7.9m investment, and the overall aims of the scheme, the organisation has urged caution saying that with the town centre economy being in a fragile state, it needed to be confident that the proposed changes…
Harrogate BID has appointed Matthew Chapman as its new manager.
Matthew, who has spent the last six years promoting two major Yorkshire town and city centres and is the current Huddersfield manager, will start his new position on May 1.
In a joint statement responding to £7.9m secured for the Harrogate Gateway Project, Sandra Doherty, Harrogate District Chamber of Commerce CEO, Robert Ogden Independent Harrogate Co-founder, and Sara Ferguson, Harrogate BID Chair, said: “The challenge we are facing is how do we achieve a net-zero carbon town centre economy and simultaneously create a trading environment in which todays’ businesses can thrive?
Harrogate Business Improvement District (BID) board has elected a new chair for the next 12 months. Sara Ferguson, who co-owns two town centre businesses and had been the organisation’s acting chair since last May, won the unanimous support of her fellow directors during its inaugural (online) meeting of 2021. Six new directors have also joined…
At Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) we are seeking an exceptional individual to manage the continued delivery of our ambitious business plan, one that will bring real benefits to Harrogate town centre and the businesses that it is home to.
