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Funded Photography Service Year 1

Funded Photography Service Year 1

llkley BID arranged and funded professional photography for many BID businesses using a local photographer. The service offered two fully edited shots, with the option to purchase further shots at a special discount of £15 each or pay for an additional hour with the...

Loyal Free

Loyal Free

Available to Voluntary BID MembersIlkley BID have partnered with the award-winning place promotion app LoyalFree to provide free advertising for local businesses. This service is free for all Ilkley BID levy payers and is simple to set up. The app is up and running in...

Place Dashboard

Place Dashboard

Ilkley BID has signed up for the Place Dashboard software which will enable us to monitor footfall in the town. The software is able to roll back the data by 12 months which will be useful in seeing pre-covid levels and measure progress in returning to the same level...

Coronavirus Update

Coronavirus Update

With the onset of Coronavirus in the UK, we are in a constantly changing situation with unknown outcomes. Running a small business is rarely easy but for the majority, we are entering new and worrying territory. The amount of information is difficult to handle so we...

Real Food Market Brings Businesses to a New Audience

Real Food Market Brings Businesses to a New Audience

This February sees the return of the Real Food Ilkley Market and BID members are now able to book one of 3 pitches each month for the next 3 months, with funding from the BID. Previous businesses who have taken up the offer have included The Little Tea House, Prickly...

It’s an Ilkley Christmas

It’s an Ilkley Christmas

The Ilkley BID Christmas guide was produced to help promote the Ilkley Retailers and offered budget, luxury and quirky gift ideas from shops and businesses in the Ilkley area.  7,500 copies of the colourful twelve page guide were printed and we distributed 6,000 via...

Joint Networking Training Event with Ilkley Business Forum

On 8th January, Ilkley BID and Ilkley Business Forum held a joint event with professional speaker Nick Bramley delivering an interactive and informative session covering his ‘top tips’ on making the most of any networking opportunity. The evening was well attended,...

Meercat saves local business £9000

Meercat saves local business £9000

We were delighted to hear that our partnership with Meercat Associates has resulted in one Ilkley firm looking at savings of £9000 on their annual business costs (and this isn’t for a particularly large business!) Meercat Associates is specialist business cost...

The Ilkley Elf Trail 2019

The Ilkley Elf Trail 2019

As part of the Ilkley Christmas campaign, the BID set up a Christmas Elf Trail in Ilkley Town Centre to help businesses get more footfall over the Christmas 2019 period.  The BID arranged for 50 cheeky elves to be arranged in shop windows and trail Sheets were created...

Free Customer Services Training

Free Customer Services Training

On Monday 11th and 18th November, we are hosting Shipley College who are coming to deliver two days of Customer Service Training. This incorporates City & Guilds level 2 in Customer Service and also World Host training, the highly regarded training which was...

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