Your Vote is Essential

Between 12th April and 24th May 2018 businesses in Edinburgh’s city centre must make an important decision.

Since 2008, Essential Edinburgh has worked to support your city centre through a wide range of initiatives. These have become so much a part of ‘business as usual’ that it’s easy to forget that without your vote, they will not continue.

We can’t do it without you.

Key services will only happen with your ‘Yes’ vote:

• £1m Marketing Campaign • Clean Team Rapid Response • BID Cop • Basement and doorway cleaning • Christmas Lighting and festive decorations • Hazardous waste removal • Creating public spaces to bring festival footfall to the BID • A strong, collective voice working on your behalf • Our programme of exceptional events to draw in customers • Chewing Gum Removal • 2x dedicated Homelessness Case Workers for the city centre • Preferred Rate Changeworks

Recycling partnership • Maintenance of City Centre CCTV • City centre monitoring project and Essential Trends • Dedicated team for city centre marketing and promotion • Checkin, Check Out, Pubwatch, Goldwatch “We need Essential Edinburgh; to keep animating the area and keep putting on events that people want to come to. Otherwise they are just going to stay in, or go out to a retail parks and then we won’t have the independence and the quirkiness that we have come to know and love.”

Louise Maclean, Element and Badger & Co