Bristol BID brings together Bristol City Centre, Broadmead, and Redcliffe & Temple BIDs under one collective vision, driving greater investment, enhanced efficiencies, and a more powerful voice for businesses across the city. Bristol BID builds on the mission: “Your business, our priority, Bristol’s future”.
Bristol is such a vibrant city known for its rich history, diverse culture, and creative spirit. It’s a hub for the arts, technology, and innovation, often regarded as a leading green city in the UK due to its focus on sustainability. With the ongoing support and engagement of levy paying businesses, the BID’s passionate and experienced team can continue to deliver for all business sectors, and the wider community across the city centre.
Bristol BID will operate under the governance of Visit West.
Find out more on the Bristol BID website here.
Experiences & Promotion
The BID will deliver, initiate, and support events, activations, PR, and marketing to promote our city and its businesses.
Experiences & Promotion will continue to build Bristol’s profile as a vibrant cultural destination, with a focus on flagship events such as the Bristol Light Festival, which attracted over 275,000 attendees in 2024 and generated an additional spend of £8.7M.
The BID will work in partnership to further amplify the city’s festivals and cultural offerings, including Bristol Harbour Festival, Bristol Technology Festival, and the Festival of Nature, and will collaborate with Visit West LVEP to deliver seasonal campaigns to promote the city.
The BID will drive footfall and sales during quieter periods of the year through venue-led activations such as Old City Sounds, Bristol Cocktail Weekend, a new Restaurant Week, and The Bristol Comedy Festival
Employees from BID businesses will benefit from a regular programme of lunchtime and sector specific networking events to improve wellbeing and connectivity.
Bristol BID will continue its Love Bristol Gift Card initiative to promote a circular economy in the city. To date, this initiative has kept over £180,000 of spend local, with over 190 businesses now signed up to the scheme. The BID will also continue to support retailers and venues through the launch of a new Bristol Shopping website.
The BID will deliver the annual lights display across the city centre, dressing our city for the festive period.
Safe & Supported Communities
The BID will deliver projects to increase safety, improve knowledge, promote wellbeing and support growth.
Projects will expand on existing Bristol Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) safety initiatives, including street ranger services, street intervention services, a dedicated PSCO, and the city centre radio scheme.
The BID will continue to support nighttime safety initiatives including its close working partnership with Bristol Nights and the Bristol Street Pastors, and will partner on a night-time safe space initiative.
Bristol BID will support the reduction of homelessness in the city via TAP for Bristol. Since its inception in 2019, TAP for Bristol has raised and donated over £150,000 via local grant-giving.
To strengthen the promotion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the workplace, Bristol BID will continue supporting initiatives such as Babbasa's Workplace Inclusion Health Checks and bespoke action plan support.
Through the City Innovation Fund, Bristol BID will invest in or sponsor opportunities that will have a positive impact on businesses from all sectors and the wider community.
Businesses will benefit from a range of support from the BID, including events and resources to adapt to the future of work, employee access to a free online training hub, access to local volunteering opportunities, and access to the city’s footfall and Visa spend to make informed decisions.
The BID will work alongside our universities, colleges, and their students to support student wellbeing, safety, and investigate ways to forge stronger links between educators and the business community.
The BID is also committed to supporting young people and will fund a dedicated Youth Services Officer in collaboration with key community groups.
Clean & Welcoming
The BID will create well maintained spaces with dedicated resources to deliver additional cleansing and improve the city’s welcome.
This theme will extend dedicated resources to deliver additional jet washing and graffiti removal into new BID areas, to help create a clean and welcoming city for all, 7-days a week.
The BID will expand its programme of winter lights and add additional tree lights to improve the welcome and brighten up key locations across the city.
The BID will represent Bristol’s businesses by responding to major transport, place, and planning applications, and will share these with businesses to gain feedback and increase engagement.
Bristol BID will introduce enhanced signage to improve visitor wayfinding and introduce a new City Ambassador service to strengthen Bristol’s welcome. The BID will also partner with transport services to ensure that Bristol is welcoming whether visitors arrive by bus, train, or car.
Sustainable & Green
The BID will support businesses towards a sustainable future by connecting our community with accessible green initiatives.
The Sustainable & Green theme will drive improvements to the city’s public realm through greening projects like tree planting, wildflower meadows and green walls. The BID will also work with partners across the city to create a Green Infrastructure Action Plan to improve our streets and green spaces, and seek to support the Harbour Placemaking Strategy by identifying opportunities to improve the harbour.
In collaboration with Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership, the BID will deliver free events and resources to support businesses on their climate action journey.
The BID will host a regular programme of free bike maintenance sessions to encourage more sustainable travel and will work with partners to help businesses reduce vehicle movement in the city centre.
Bristol BID will also champion a refill and reuse campaign in partnership with key stakeholders and businesses to reduce single use materials across the city, including waste from coffee and plastic cups and takeaway lunches.
Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) is a business-led partnership of businesses, working together to make Bristol an even better place to live, work, and study.
Find out more about the partners we work with and the projects we are involved in.
