National BCRP Awareness Week

BID Lead

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

Project Type
Protecting
Date
March 2025

Taking place from 17th March, the inaugural National BCRP Awareness Week will focus on the important and varied work of BCRPs, highlighting ways in which the partnership supports our local community.

Through various events, the week will showcase the partnership’s holistic approach to business crime prevention, and partnership work safeguarding the people who live, work and socialise in central Bristol, to better understand issues affecting the business community and develop long-term solutions through collaboration.

Purposes and Objectives of BCRP Awareness Week…

  • Focus on BCRPs, raise awareness and highlight the existing work taking place to support businesses and communities locally.
  • To demonstrate the complex role of the BCRPs and how they differ from other organisations and projects.
  • To support the business community by prioritising and tackling business crime, in particular the Retail Crime Action Plan and the Night Time Economy. 
  • To promote collaborative working and relationships between BCRPs, police, key local agencies and the business community.
  • To promote the importance of the BCRP National Standards Accreditation, and the recognition of compliance that it offers to businesses and Police. 
  • To highlight and celebrate achievements and successes.

A full programme of National BCRP Awareness Week events focusing on youth services, support for the street community, the night time economy and more will be announced in the coming days.

The Business Crime Reduction Partnership is a collaboration between Bristol City Centre BID, Broadmead BID and Redcliffe & Temple BID and would not be possible without the work of Avon & Somerset Police, the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships (NABCP) and National Business Crime Centre (NBCC).