Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) has completed a ‘spring’ clean of the town centre as part of its current business plan objective to keep the town ‘safe, clean and welcoming’. Having taken place between the 13th and 28th March, the 150-hour long clean-up operation saw hot steam and pressure jet washing of pavements on Cambridge…
Harrogate BID’s dream of helping the town regaining its floral crown is one step closer after being named as a finalist in this year’s 2023 RHS Britain in Bloom UK Finals. The business organisation has been selected in the BIDS, Town Centres & City Centres category for its Harrogate Floral Summer of Celebration campaign, which…
Harrogate BID’s cleaning crew is steam cleaning and power washing ‘grot spots’ across the town centre, ensuring Harrogate sparkles this Christmas. With just a few weeks until the start of this year’s collaborative ‘Destination Christmas’ campaign – featuring the return of the Candy Cane Express, Christmas Fayre, shop window competition, observation wheel, ice rink and…
A film promoting the work of an initiative that directly helps homeless people back on their feet is to be premiered in Harrogate town centre this Saturday. (October 22) The video, starring three local people supported by Harrogate District Street Aid, is to be shown at 10am on a giant screen in the Victoria Shopping…
Harrogate BID is launching a new campaign to help understand the true nature of law and order within Harrogate town centre. Its ‘Report a Crime’ campaign is asking businesses, residents and visitors that have been the victims of a crime or anti-social activity – or witness an incident – to report it online at https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/…
An initiative to help some of the most vulnerable in Harrogate get back on their feet has been boosted by Harrogate BID and HSBC. This week, a third Street Aid tap terminal has been installed in the bank’s Cambridge Street branch, where customers can ‘tap’ their phone or credit card on the terminal to make…
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 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…
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…
A new, uniformed presence has started patrolling Harrogate town centre with a licence to cut grime! Harrogate BID Street Ranger Chris Ashby will soon become a familiar figure as drives around the BID area in an electric vehicle carrying out cleaning and weeding duties. His work will be above and beyond that undertaken by Harrogate…
