20 Days of Calm

Celebrating Stress Awareness Month with over 20 events to help you relax, recharge, and prioritise wellbeing.

Bristol Light Festival 2025

The festival returned for another record breaking year, as economic impact surpassed £11m

Bristol consults on new City BID

New unified and expanded city BID: ~£17m investment to strengthen economy and support local business.

High Streets UK urges action

Business representatives across the UK launch policy recommendations in response to business rates reform.

Free events available to you

Looking for a way to break up your workday routine and try something new? Join us for a free lunchtime event!

TAP for Bristol

Launched in 2019, TAP for Bristol is in partnership with local homeless support charity Caring in Bristol. Our aim is to make Bristol the city that solves homelessness.

WHAT WE DO

Thanks to the investment and involvement from our levy paying businesses, we’re creating a better Bristol for all: Our vision is a future-focused city that attracts business, investment, and people to create a resilient and welcoming city for all.

Our guiding principles are to offer strong and effective governance, to have clear accountability, to give our levy paying businesses value for money and to be responsive to our business’s needs.

About Us

OUR OBJECTIVES

  • INTRODUCTION TO YOUR BID

    Our Welcome Pack provides an overview of our most recent activity and an introduction to the City Centre BID for levy paying businesses.

    Read our welcome pack
  • ENHANCING

    Enhancing by delivering projects that attract investment and talent, create a greener, cleaner and more attractive city centre, bringing visitors, employees and residents back into the heart of the city.

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  • PROMOTING

    Promoting with a collaborative approach to delivering innovative campaigns, events, activations, and communications to support and promote Bristol city centre and its businesses. Celebrating everything that makes Bristol a special place to work, study and live.

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  • PROTECTING

    Protecting by investing to reduce, challenge and raise awareness of crime and anti-social behaviour to protect city centre businesses, visitors and residents both day and night.

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  • SUPPORTING

    Supporting by acting as a single point of contact to represent levy payers, leverage investment, influence strategy and support the business community.

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HOW WE’RE DOING THIS

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Old City Sounds 2025

Save the date! Old City Sounds is back for its third year, bursting with an eclectic mix of music across all your favourite city centre venues.

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Stress Awareness Month 2025: 20 Days of Calm

Over 20 events to help you relax, recharge, and prioritise wellbeing.

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National BCRP Awareness Week

A week of events focusing on the important role of Business Crime Reduction Partnerships

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Bristol City Centre BID Annual Reports

Stay up to date with the progress of the Bristol City Centre BID team by reading our latest annual report.

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Bristol Safe Space

Bristol City Centre BID is supporting Avon & Somerset Police to deliver a safe space pilot project in central Bristol.

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THE CITY CENTRE BID BOUNDARY

This map represents the Bristol City Centre BID area. It is the largest of five BIDs in Bristol and includes some of Bristol’s landmark locations such as the Old City, Harbourside, Park Street and City Centre.

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Latest news

Over 3,500 bikes serviced thanks to successful Dr Bike initiative

Results from the 2024 Dr Bike survey show growing demand for the service among city workers

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A positive drive for change: ‘Bristol businesses supported to ‘Get Started’ with climate action’

Collaboration aiding businesses to take action against climate change

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Bristol Light Festival 2025 drives record visitor spend as economic impact surpasses £11m

Bristol Light Festival returned in February for another record breaking year

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Weekly youth services available in Bristol City Centre, Redcliffe & Temple and Broadmead

Learn about the meaningful impact central Bristol youth organisations are making to our communities.

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BCRP Awareness Week: Everything You Need To Know About Bristol’s Business Crime Reduction Partnership

The BCRP aims to bring together BIDs, Businesses, the local authority, and the police to reduce crime and its impact

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Let's Connect

The BID team welcomes ideas and news from Bristol BID businesses.