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New Bristol BID Plans Unveiled

Three of Bristol’s Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have revealed their plans for a more united approach to uplifting the city

Bristol Cocktail Weekend 2025

Bristol’s city centre is set to shake up a four-day celebration of cocktails & creativity as the event returns with its most ambitious year to date.

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.

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  • 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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Bristol Harbour Festival 2025

Bristol City Centre BID and Redcliffe & Temple BID will once again sponsor this year’s Bristol Harbour Festival, from 18-20 July 2025.

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Gromit Unleashed 3

We're delighted to be a sculpture sponsor for Gromit Unleashed 3, a city-wide sculpture trail featuring everybody's favourite Aardman characters.

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Careers Connect

Connecting Educators and Businesses to help develop and promote early career and work experience opportunities for Bristol’s students and young people.

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Festival of Nature

Bristol City Centre BID sponsored Bristol Natural History Consortium's Festival of Nature 2025.

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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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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

Bristol Harbour Festival partners with Good Law Project to bring national icons Carol Vorderman and Ella Morgan to the Expression Stage

A groundbreaking day of activism, artistry and identity to take over Millennium Square - presented by Good Law Project, Diverse Artists Network and Bristol Legacy Foundation

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Love Bristol Gift Card celebrates three years with record growth and £180k+ in local spend

Teacher gifting trend helps drive momentum as card expands to 190+ citywide venues

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Full steam ahead, Gromit!

A steam train loaded with sculptures of Wallace, Gromit, Feathers McGraw and Wallace’s latest invention, Norbot made its way into Bristol along the city’s harbour railway this morning (25 June).

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Iconic tall ship Galeón Andalucía to make first-ever voyage into Bristol Harbour Festival this July

The Galeón Andalucía will sail into Bristol this summer for Bristol Harbour Festival.

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Trollblazing! Poppy joins the cast of Gromit Unleashed

In collaboration with the world-famous Californian animation studio DreamWorks, Poppy joins the dazzling lineup of Gromit Unleashed 3.

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Let's Connect

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