Our Approach

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

 

Protecting Northfield

  • Retail Radio Scheme

  • Tackling anti-social behaviour

  • High Street Security Patrols

  • Promoting Northfield Shopping Centre Park Mark awarded car park

 

Promoting Northfield

  • Annual events

  • Celebrating Christmas

  • BID website

  • Exploring the employee loyalty scheme

 

Campaigning for Northfield

  • Business Training

  • Business Support

  • Federation of Small Businesses Member

  • Members of British BIDs & ATCM

  • 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

Co-opted BID Board Member

 

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