Business Improvement Districts Scotland (BIDS) has been established to support and encourage the development of Business Improvement Districts across Scotland.
BIDS leads the Scottish Government's pathfinder BID programme which includes the development of BIDS in Edinburgh, Falkirk and Glasgow. Bathgate, Inverness and Clackmannanshire were pathfinder BIDS but have now had successful ballots, with Bathgate becoming the first BID in Scotland and Inverness the first city centre BID as well as being the first BID in the UK to involve property owners in the BID strategy. The Clackmannanshire BID is the first commercial BID in Scotland, the first county wide BID and the first commercial BID in the UK to involve property owners in the BID strategy.
All of the information, examples and guidelines (which are bespoke to Scotland) on this website are free to those business groups and associations, working in partnership with their local authority, who wish to develop a BID in Scotland. The member’s area includes detailed information which is only relevant to developing BIDS. |
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