the bids gathering 2015 slideshow

Denzil SkinnerChair

• About Essential Edinburgh• Key priorities and measures• First term of the BID• Second term of the BID

@EssentialEdin Essential Edinburgh

About Essential Edinburgh

• Voted in by businesses 2008 – turnout 46%, 54% vote in favour

• Represent 600 businesses– 51% Retail, 31% office, 18% hospitality

• Delivered on amended 5 year plan

• Renewal Ballot successful in 2013

• £5m investment by private businesses

• £1m for city centre re-launch secured

First Term: 2008 – 2013Area Promotion – Clean & Attractive – Safe & Secure – Accessibility – Facilitation

• Events & promotion increased footfall• 10% increase in Keep Scotland Beautiful score• 30% reduction in retail crime, 80% solvency rate

- “Check Out” initiative• Trade Waste initiaitve identified over £250,000

savings with “Zero-2-Landfill” for over 200 businesses

• Rose Street action plan delivered

Second Term 2013-2018Areas for delivery and measurement

•Area Promotion: retail turnover and footfall 2% above UK average

•Clean & Attractive: CIMS, Keep Scotland Beautiful score increase by 10%

•Safe & Secure: Crime Statistics & Edinburgh Visitor Survey perception scores

•Accessibility: Edinburgh Visitor Survey perception scores

•Facilitation: Cost neutral through group buying initiatives

Area Promotion• Footfall up 7.3% compared to

UK average of -1.7%.• Footfall driving events

– Edinburgh Fashion Week

– Spa in the City

– Film in the City

– Edinburgh Restaurant Festival

– Light Night

– St Andrew Square Garden events

• Advertising and Marketing– “This is Edinburgh” city centre

marketing campaign

Review - Year 6 July 2013 to June 2014

Clean & Attractive• Essential Clean Team

– 86%* of visitors to Edinburgh believed the BID area was cleaner than the rest of the city

• Flowers & hanging baskets– Beautiful Scotland – Silver Gilt Award

• St Andrew Square Garden• Christmas Lights

*Edinburgh Visitor Survey


Safe & Secure

• 92%* of visitors to Edinburgh stated that they felt safer in the BID area than elsewhere in the city, up 8% on last year.

• Check Out – Check In – CCTV – Transport Marshalls – Pub Watch– Theft and housebreaking to a business premises down by 59%– Theft down by 17%– Shoplifting down by 16% – Robbery down by 31%

*Edinburgh Visitor Survey


Facilitation• Waste Management Project

– Changeworks Recycling new contractor– Tailored solutions for each business

• Utilities– Business savings in excess of £200,000– All businesses saved more than cost of levy

• George Street Project• Castle Street


Trade Waste Project – 1st Term

• Preferred BID supplier in place by 2011, providing Zero-2-Landfill

• Waste separation set up prior to Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012

• Savings to business identified in excess of £250,000 by reduction of landfill use

Trade Waste Project – 2nd Term

• Edinburgh Council trade waste changes– No waste to be stored on street for more than 1 hour– Initial trial in Rose Street 2014– Following trial, BID first area for roll out - April 2015

• Changeworks Recycling – New waste contractor for BID– Tailored solutions for Rose Street business during trade

waste trial highly successful– Over quarter of BID already signed up and will be

compliant with new legislation – number growing daily– Changeworks Recycling are a Social Enterprise – local

job creation through this initiative

Summary

• Successfully delivered first business plan• Resounding renewal ballot success

– 78% voted YES, up from 54% in 2008 – almost 35% increase

• Term 2 of the BID started strongly– On target to achieve key measures

• Major role for BID in helping businesses to become compliant with trade waste regulations

Thank you

www.essentialedinburgh.co.uk [email protected]

Alastair MitchellFalkirk Delivers3rd March 2015

Safer towns night & day

Getting the basics right

At both BID ballots, our businesses asked us to deliver more of the basics to enhance the town centre:•Clean (Taking a Pride in Falkirk)•Safe (It’s Friendlier in Falkirk)•Friendly (Let’s Shout about it!)

The Falkirk perspective

• Pre-BID, a poor perception of the night time economy in Falkirk

• Concentration of efforts on daytime economy • Huge investment in licensed premises, artisan cafes

and a move towards ‘retail +’• Opportunity to encourage growth in investment,

footfall and spend

The Falkirk perspective

• Change perceptions• Help establish a much more customer friendly,

vibrant and safe environment• Adopt best practise• Getting the basics right• Work with partners across a variety of disciplines• Opportunity to maximise the impact to the town

centre of the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel

It’s all about good partnerships and collaboration!

• Falkirk Delivers +• Falkirk Council• Scottish Business Resilience Centre• BIDs Scotland• Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service• ATCM• Business Community• Local volunteers – Red Cross, Street Pastors, Signpost

Recovery etc. etc.

A selection of relevant Falkirk Delivers projects:

All things ‘Safe’

Or as we call it: ‘It’s Friendlier in Falkirk’

Action: It’s friendlier in Falkirk

Award Winning Safer Streets programme

•Featuring Safe Base / Safe Zone – providing support to vulnerable night-time revellers during the festive period •Part of the Operation Christmas joint venture•Highly successful partnership between the BID, and 8 other partners.

Action: It’s friendlier in Falkirk

Action: Safer Streets projects

Action: Best Bar None

15 Falkirk area licensed premises accredited with Best Bar None status this year 7 Gold winners. Behind the Wall won Scottish Independent Pub of the year

Action: Street Ambassadors• Liaison with businesses

• Reporting and resolving problems

• Assisting businesses with shoplifters

• Basic First Aid

• Local product knowledge

Another first for Falkirk…

Action: Events and Festivals

In 2014, Falkirk Delivers won a UK national ATCM award

‘Developing the evening & night-time economy’

Action: Partnering local tourism attractions

Action: Local Tourism Partnership

And now – The Helix and the Kelpies!

Falkirk was a Finalist!

We’re contributing towards the Safer Communities outcomes!

• By spending to save, Falkirk Delivers and its Safer Streets voluntary partners annually saves approx. £30K in costs and time during the festive period for the NHS and Police

• We’re working with partners to minimise crime and anti-social behaviour in the town centre

• We’re reducing negative perceptions as well as the fear of crime

• We’re helping to make Falkirk a safer place

How long is this guy going

to drone on for…

I’ve told him before, 6 slides

max!21, 22, for feck

sake Alastair, 23, 24…

Must stay awake…

www.enterprisingbathgate.com

Improving the Business Environment and Supporting Business

March 2015

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Enterprising Bathgate


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Enterprising BathgateA Bit About

Strong leadership frombusiness community

March 2008 - Scotland’s firstBusiness Improvement District

with West Lothian Council

in Bathgate town centre

Excellent working partnership

Approx. 400 properties


● Public Realm Design Guide● Bathgate In Bloom Project● Town Centre Regeneration Fund● Town Centre Capital Programme● The Partnership Centre● Adaptation of former Council properties● Adaptation of older properties

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Making the BID AreaA Bit About

More Attractive

Public RealmDesign Guide

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Town Centre Regeneration Fund& Capital Programme


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The Partnership Centre


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Adaptation offormer Council properties


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Adaptation of older properties

Big Bang Hairdressing Salon

Nineteen Twelve Cafe Bar


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Premises Improvement Scheme

● Initially a pilot Shop Front Scheme during development of BID

● Listened to feedback to make scheme more effective

● Scope widened

● Banding introduced to reflect size of properties

● New scheme now run every year

● Improves individual properties

● Improves the attractiveness of the town centre


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Premises SchemeFacts & Figures

Approved 65 grants totalling more than

£41,000

498 grants approved since

company was formed

More than

£280,000 paid out in grants

Documented expenditure exceeds

£2 million

(2014-15 scheme)


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Premises Improvement Scheme


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Choose Bathgate Campaign

● Promoting Bathgate town centre as a place to set up, re-locate or expand a business

● Marketing the businesses and services available in Bathgate town centre


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Choose Bathgate - Online Guide

● Auto-resizes for PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones

● Businesses offered a full page, which is branded for them maintaining quality, identity and up-to-date information

● Listings by Category, A-Z and Map Location

● Links to and feeds from social media pages

● Contact form

● Interactive with Google Maps and Streetview

● Search facility


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www.choosebathgate.com

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Improving the Business Environment and Supporting Business


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