Good Afternoon
The BID has recently organised a series of meetings on different streets in the BID area to gather further feedback on the priorities for the forthcoming year. We have additional funding this year as a result of securing High Street Recovery Funds (HSRF) for East St, Cannon St and Bedminster Parade - this will be invested primarily in piloting elements of the East Street Vision (see www.eaststreetvision.com).
In addition, the BID has its annual income to spend on a variety of marketing and street improvement projects. Dozens of ideas have been put forward which are summarised here. Next steps are to develop these ideas further, prioritise them and make them happen. The first step will be a key part of the next BID Board meeting which is open to all businesses in the BID area, next Tuesday 12th April at 615pm at the Hen & Chicken. Please let us know if you wish to come along by emailing business@bedminster.org.uk as spaces are limited. If you are unable to attend but have some ideas or thoughts about any ideas or projects for the BID to pursue please do get in touch.
There is a busy agenda to get through - below - covering different aspects of the BID’s operations and you would be welcome to stay for the whole meeting or just the above project development and prioritisation session.
Draft Agenda
1. Last month’s minutes
2. Timekeeper
3. Finance and governance update
a. Financial reporting
b. Project management reporting
4. Marketing update
a. Marketing meeting
b. Christmas light pilot
5. Built Environment Update
a. East St Road Closures
b. East Street Vision (Mcgregor Coxall detailed design)
c. Projects
i. Bollards proposal
ii. East St Stories Proposal
iii. East Street Now
iv. Area Meetings Priorities
6. AOB
7. Next meeting
Briefly in other news:
Lower North Street Placemaking designs will be ready for review soon. This has followed a series of digital and face to face meetings with a placemaking specialist to explore ways to make the area more attractive to shoppers.
Trader Top Trumps will be launched with participating businesses over the next month.
Jazz Bar and National Food Operator to open on East Street. The Jazz Bar will open in the summer opposite Factory 1 and the national food operator is a strong rumour to fill the now empty Peacocks unit - fingers crossed!
Further Information
Business to business news: www.bedminster.org.uk/business
Customer facing website and social media:
www.facebook.com/bedminsterbristol.bs3
Contacts
George Grace - business@bedminster.org.uk
Simon Dicken (Wilko) - man242@wilko.co.uk
About the BID
Bedminster BID funding is generated via a small levy on all eligible businesses in the area and paid into a central 'kitty' in November each year, to be spent on projects that benefit Bedminster businesses. Our stated priorities are to:
Create vibrant streets that excite and delight
Market and promote Bedminster
Reduce crime and improve the shopping environment
Advocate and lobby for Bedminster business interests
Drive down costs
Please get in touch if you have any ideas about what we should do. Or, if you wish to attend a board meeting or one of our specialist sub-groups in Marketing, Arts & Culture or Built Environment (ie transport, planning and street improvement), please see our calendar here and drop us a line.
Finally, we are grateful to local accountants Tyrrell Procter and communications experts Plaster for their generous pro bono contributions to the BID’s activities.