Consultancy celebrates BID renewals hat-trick

Place management consultancy Partnerships for Better Business is celebrating following successful ballots to renew the status of three separate Business Improvement Districts for an additional five years.

Following a campaign delivered by pfbb UK, businesses in Luton and Stourbridge town centres, plus Bracknell’s commercial area, have voted ‘yes’ to benefit from a combined £6.6 million package of support, guidance and project delivery from a team dedicated to helping local areas flourish.

In Derby, pfbb UK currently oversees the BIDs in the Cathedral Quarter and St Peters Quarter.

Ian Ferguson, strategy and development director at pfbb UK, which has been managing, developing and renewing BIDs since it started in 2005, said: “We are delighted we have been able to support businesses who want to help themselves at a time when employers are faced with so many economic pressures.

“There will no doubt be understandable uncertainty for many business owners following the Budget and we’re pleased to give business owners vital reassurance that they will now be able to reap the rewards of being part of a successful BID area for another five years.

“These BIDs bring businesses together to deliver all sorts of benefits to the area in which they operate that simply would not happen otherwise.”