As part of our promise to help businesses to improve their green credentials on our Action Plan, Ilkley BID is supporting Olicana Stationers to recycle ink and toner cartridges. It’s estimated that over 45 million used or empty printer cartridges are thrown away...
As promised in our 2023 Action Plan under Pillar 1 - Marketing the Town, we have promised to "develop at least two promotional campaigns to benefit businesses across the town." Due to the success of last year's Health and Wellness Event that took place at the King's...
From Tots To Teens is a tourism blog that creates exciting, engaging online content to capture the attention of busy Yorkshire parents. With over a million views each year and a social media following of 55k, Ilkley BID funded the publication of the "Top 10 things to...
Ilkley loves its independent businesses! In a recent national competition to find the UK’s favourite local business, Ilkley beat most other towns and cities across the UK in the number of nominations submitted. In total, there were 298 nominations for 24 businesses in...
Public Wi-Fi is now in place in 11 locations around the town centre as well as the Ilkley Lido, the Ben Rhydding shops area and the Ben Rhydding playing fields. The platform allows us to display marketing messages as people access the service, taking visitors straight...
Ilkley BID is delighted to report that December 2022 was a bumper month for Ilkley Gift Card sales, with a total of 233 purchased and a value of over £9,500. The Ilkley Gift Card, part of the Town & City Gift Card initiative across the UK and Ireland, was launched...
To celebrate the announcements of the 2023 Ilkley Business Awards finalists, we've had the pleasure of Rombalds Radio broadcasting their Breakfast Show from the Ilkley BID meeting room on Friday 13th January. [difl_imagegallery image_size="large"...
Pictured: Isabel Ashman, Ilkley Town CrierThe first Ilkley Town Crier Competition will take place on Saturday 13th May 2023. Funded by Ilkley BID as part of Pillar 1 to create a promotional campaign that will benefit local businesses across the town, the competition...
Last year, Ilkley BID produced press pieces for some of our local businesses to help them promote a specific event they were running. The BID wrote the articles and following their business approval distributed them to our local press contacts as well as Ilkley Chat...
Would you be in favour of the Continental Market returning to Ilkley Would you see the relocation of the Visitor Information Centre, as a valuable project and think this would be a benefit to Ilkley and it's businesses? Will the traffic calming measures have an impact...
Sales of the Ilkley Town Centre Gift Card continue to go from strength to strength with 82 local businesses now accepting it as payment in store. The Ilkley Gift Card, an initiative by the Ilkley Business Improvement District with technology provided by FinTech...
This Christmas, Ilkley BID will be running an online advent calendar to highlight the vast range of gifts which could be sourced locally and to encourage people to shop, eat and drink in Ilkley this Christmas. The calendar will be featured on the...
The Kings Hall Theatre and The Ilkley Playhouse have a packed schedule of theatre productions, touring musicians, tribute bands, pantos, comedy shows and more across the year, and in October the town welcomed an influx of visitors to its world famous Ilkley Literature...
Ilkley BID has introduced two Augmented Reality trails to enjoy this spooky season in Ilkley town centre. The first ‘Halloween Hunt’ trail is a joint initiative between the LoyalFree app and Ilkley BID and runs from 17th October until 31st October and invites...
Ilkley BID has awarded £15k to the Improving Ilkley group to fund the Brook Street fountain restoration project. The fountain is an important feature in Ilkley and the funding will help with the first stage of the fountain development which is to replace the original...
As part of our Digital Support campaign, we will be running a Canva workshop in the BID meeting room on Wednesday 2nd November at 5.30pm. Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool, a great resource for marketing and can be used to create social media posts,...
Martinez Wine Tasting ExtravaganzaTuesday 1st November 20222pm-8pm Every year Martinez hosts a charity wine tasting event at the Kings Hall and Winter Garden which attracts over 250 people. All profits from this event are donated to the Save The Children...
Our first Health and Wellness event was a great success with 22 local health and wellbeing businesses taking part.
Ilkley BID has partnered a national campaign which has been launched today as a result of the struggle that businesses face as a result of the energy and general cost of living crisis. The newly formed #BusinessSOS campaign, founded by organisations representing over...
Our latest printed newsletter has now been published and and hand delivered by our Director and town centre postie Mark. Get in touch if you haven’t received one or would like more copies. You can also download/read it here: https://bit.ly/3B0Sj5o
The BID have arranged for a wellness event to support the health, fitness and wellness businesses in the town. All relevant businesses were invited to take part in the campaign which included: Half page advertistment in the Ilkley Gazette supplement. Coverage in a...
It was a great day for the Ilkley Gift Card on Wednesday 20th July when sales went through the roof with a record number of 64 (value £1405) sold in one day and 55 of those purchased in Ilkley's Visitor Information Centre. Sarah Lyles, owner of Attic Womenswear...
To prepare for the launch of the Bradford Clean Air Zone on 26th September 2022, Bradford Council encourage anyone who feels they may be affected by the CAZ to check their vehicles on the government website. www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones This will let you know if your...
As part of our commitment to help BID businesses improve their green credentials, we are facilitating a meeting on 27th July at 5.30pm, for businesses to take part in an informal discussion on how Ilkley BID, Climate Action Ilkley & Plastic Free Ilkley can help...
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