Canterbury BID was established by ballot in 2014 as an independent, business-led, not-for-profit initiative to ensure investment in the city centre based on the priorities of the business community. All of the money raised by the BID – from the levy, voluntary contributions, sponsorship and commercial income – is invested directly back into Canterbury. In the first BID term (2014-2019), your BID raised 20% on top of the levy, totalling £430,000 over the five years, bringing the total amount invested to over £2.9m. The BID’s mission is to help make Canterbury a vibrant, exciting, well connected and successful business community.
Under Government legislation we are now approaching the end of the first five-year term, and therefore to continue beyond September 2019 we need to run a ballot from 13 June to 11 July 2019. This is the Canterbury BID Business Plan which sets out plans for the next five years.
