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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Children from six Harrogate schools have spoken from the heart whilst helping to make a new video being premiered today to promote the town. The youngsters from St Peter’s, Coppice Valley, Birstwith & Admiral Long, Oatlands, Richard Taylor, and Western, take centre stage in the Harrogate BID-funded ‘I Love Harrogate’ film, which from Wednesday is…
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Welcome to our January 2022 Newsletter January has been another busy and productive month for Harrogate BID. 2022 kicked off with us welcoming a new member to the team, Street Ranger Chris Ashby, who is already making a really positive impact in the town centre. We also held our AGM and outlined our plans for the year ahead.…
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Harrogate College is inviting businesses to get off to a flying start in 2022 by attending sector-specific Employers’ Network events. The college, as part of its ongoing commitment to support the local economy by delivering the skills and courses local firms need, launched the Harrogate College Employers’ Network last October. Now it is preparing to…
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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…
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