Pillar 4

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...

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...

    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...

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,...

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...

Under Pillar 3 we are committed to developing maps/visitor guides and trails to enhance the visitor experience. In June 2022 Ilkley BID began to distribute the new town centre map to various locations including the Ilkley Tourist Information Centre. Thanks to local...

  To help us promote the Ilkley Gift Card we have teamed up with Rombalds Radio who be out and about in Ilkley Town Centre at the end of the month and the Jubilee weekend offering Gift Card prizes to the public and interviewing businesses who accept the Ilkley...

  Ilkley BID are offering digital health checks to BID Businesses. We understand that every business is different with different requirements and technical abilities so after an initial review, all participating business will receive at least one of the following...

On Wednesday 27th April we hosted our first lunch time networking session in our newly refurbished meeting room at the Town Hall with the intention for BID businesses to improve connections and gain networking connections with other Ilkley business owners and...

Pictured Left to Right, Jos Mountcastle, Ian White, Sarah Barr-Young, Lisa Drake & Helen Rhodes. Ilkley BID are in the process of setting up the Ilkley Gift Card scheme which is due to be launched on 5th May 2022.     REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS Using ARG...

The BID Meeting Room has now been completed in the Town Hall building and is available to businesses and local community groups free of charge on a ‘fair use’ basis. The space has been upgraded with digital facilities, re-decorated, and re-carpeted and includes, new...

Ilkley BID arranged for LocalTV to film about the independent coffee shops and cafes in Ilkley. The aim of the film was to showcase all our cafes and coffeeshops to promote the town as a great place to visit.  The film covers shots of all our independent cafes in the...

It's now time for businesses to register their details to accept the new gift card. SIGN UP HERE Registration should be straightforward but if you have any issues, please let us know and we will sort it out: info@ilkleybid.co.uk. For any queries about the gift card...

Ilkley BID arranged for LocalTV to film about the established independent retailers in Ilkley. Tennant & Darragh Jewellery Workshop, 5th Avenue Fasions & Times Menswear were featured in the short film that was aired on local tv channels: Freeview, Virgin Media...

Ilkley BID funded the cost of insurance and set up for local musicians and carol singers to use the Ilkley Bandstand for the Christmas Market 2021. The Christmas music and carol singers performed throughout the trading hours of the market and created a wonderful...