The Ilkley BID and The Ilkley Business Forum proudly joined forces as headline sponsors for the highly anticipated 2023 Ilkley Business Awards on Friday, March 3rd. It was an extraordinary evening filled with celebration, honoring the remarkable achievements of the...
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Mother’s Day Campaign – Ilkley Gift Card
Ilkley BID have partnered with Town & City Gift Cards to run a Mother’s Day campaign to help support local retailers, encouraging people to gift an Ilkley Gift card this Mother's Day., The ‘Mums love local’ campaign urges support for local businesses and...
Dales Radio Advertising
To help attract more visitors to Ilkley from further afield, Ilkley BID have arranged for adverts on the Dales Radio station to showcase Ilkley as a great place to visit. The radio station is located in the Yorkshire Dales with a reach of up to 60k listeners...
2023 Ilkley Carnival Sponsorship
Ilkley BID were the headline sponsor for the 2023 Ilkley Carnival which included large banner advertising in the Main Event Arena and a full page advert to promote Discover Ilkley in the printed programme. Not only did sponsoring the event help and support the Ilkley...
Printer toner cartridges recycling service for Ilkley businesses.
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...
2023 Wellness Event Planned for 30th September
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...
Success of the 2022 Promotional Tots to Teens Campaign
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 shows its support for local businesses
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 WiFi
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...
A bumper Christmas for Ilkley Gift Card Sales
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...
Ilkley Business Awards Finalists Announced for 2023
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"...
Town Crier Competition
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...
PR for Ilkley BID Businesses
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...
Continental Market, Visitor Information Centre and Traffic Calming
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...
Ilkley BID is encouraging consumers to treat a loved one to an Ilkley Gift Card this Christmas
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...
Online Christmas Advent Calendar
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...
Dinner and a Show – supporting the Ilkley Hospitality Venues
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...
Halloween Activities for October Half-Term in Ilkley
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...
Brook Street Fountain Restoration
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...
Canva Training Workshop for BID Businesses
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,...
Advertising Opportunities for Ilkley Businesses
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...
Successful Health & Wellness Event – 10th September 2022
Our first Health and Wellness event was a great success with 22 local health and wellbeing businesses taking part.
Urgent Warning from Over 150,000 BID Businesses
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...
Summer/Autumn 2022 Printed Newsletter
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
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