Our approach

Northfield BID Management Team and McDonald's Northfield on one of many clean-up days

What makes Northfield unique is the way we work together with many other local organisations, including Northfield Community Partnership, to bring many benefits:

Higher impact activities and more publicity
More local buy-in to our events, so more chance of success
More people to help organise activities
Stronger business case for grant funders

We tackle the issues that you, the businesses, have told us are important to you. In a nutshell, our work includes:

Improving Northfield

BID Caretaking & Maintenance Service
Cleaning of the High Street
Town Centre Aesthetics
Active Management of buskers, peddler's and illegal street trading

Protecting Northfield

Retail Radio Scheme partnership with MRS Communications, Northfield Shopping Centre & Northfield BID
Partnership approach to tackling anti-social behaviour
High Street Security Foot Patrols

Promoting Northfield

Annual events - Summer & Christmas
Celebrating Christmas - Christmas trees & Lamp post decorations
BID website - Visit Northfield & dedicated Business pages
BID Newsletter, hand delivered to our businesses on the patch, with online availability

Supporting Northfield

Business Training
Business Support
Federation of Small Businesses Member
Member of British BIDs
Lobbying & influencing key decision making

".... the BID works with local partners to provide a "safe, clean and welcoming" environment for the town with its proactive local management, in providing added value by being business led, local and inclusive."

Randal Brew OBE, FCA

BID Board Member