Your York BID 
Business Support
Helping York’s business community to thrive
Your York BID
Business Support
Helping York’s business community to thrive
We continuously look for new and innovative ways to support and empower local businesses. Providing a collective voice, representing business on key issues in York city centre.
York Restaurant Week
One of the biggest events of it's kind in the UK and a much-loved occasion by York residents.
Discover delicious dining on a budget with York Restaurant Week. A biannual event featuring a huge variety of food and drink offers at over 100 venues across York city centre. All offers are temptingly priced between £5 and £30 so it's easier than ever to dine out on a budget.
Across 11 events delivered to date, the public have downloaded over 150,000 offer vouchers worth a monetary value of nearly £2.5million. Visit our website to find out more.
A city-wide campaign designed to encourage residents to explore and shop locally on York’s vibrant and unique high streets during a typically quieter time of year.
Shop York offers a fun and engaging way for residents to support local shops while earning the chance to win exciting prizes. During teh month long event, shoppers earn one sticker for every £5 spent at over 80 participating retailers. Obtaining Five stickers from five different retailers, grants entry into a prize draw offering a chance to win a variety of fantastic prize. Visit our website to find out more.
Every York Gift Card sold locks spend into York's city centre economy.
Since its launch in October 2019, the scheme has rapidly grown to become one of the largest of its kind in the UK with over £260,000 of gift cards sold to date.
All levy paying businesses are eligible to participate. It's completely free and easy to sign up. Over 350 local businesses currently accept the gift card. Visit the York Gift Card website to see the full list of locations and/or to purchase a card.
Any businesses interested in signing up should get in touch at info@theyorkbid.com
York BID is delighted to be partnering with the Business School at York St John University to offer a number of fully funded and subsidised training to local businesses.
Some of our upcoming training courses include:
- Customer Service
- Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work
- Mental Health Awareness & First Aid
- Marketing
- Leadership & Management Skills
- Computing
This programme is designed to offer businesses training that is relevant, engaging and will help York businesses and their staff to thrive. If you have any suggestions for future courses, we’d love to hear from you.
See the full list of upcoming courses and enroll. If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact the team at training@theyorkbid.com.
Monitoring Economic Performance
Capturing key data on consumer behaviour and promoting evidence-based decision making
York BID, in partnership with York Council, have invested in technologies that actively tracks a wide spectrum of data on visitor to the city centre.
Insights such as changing levels of footfall, spend made on credit and debit cards, and visitor demographics are published as part of a monthly City Centre Insights Report.
We are hopeful that moving forward, businesses and partners will utilise this data, and such insights will be used to inform important decisions and investments in the city.
Voice for Business
York BID is committed to lobbying the Council and other public sector organisations on issues that the business community care about.
Before we can be a collective voice for business we must listen. We spend a great deal of time talking to business owners, managers and frontline staff to understand the issues and challenges they face.
We also regularly engage with a wide variety of stakeholder groups and trade associations to keep well informed on the topics that matter to local business and ensure that key information is shared. Some of the stakeholder groups we work with are:
- North Yorkshire Police
- Safer York Partnership
- York Safety Advisory Group
- York High Street Forum
- York Tourism Advisory Board
- Indie York
- Fossgate Traders
- Micklegate Business Initiative
- Goodramgate Traders
- Riverside Quarter
- Shambles Traders
“As the co-owner of two retail stores in York, I have had many opportunities to work with York BID and I have to say, of all the local BIDs we work with York is by far the best. From the helpful Rangers who always seem to be at hand to deal with all the issues we throw at them, to support when we need it at a higher level to iron out problems with bodies such as the Council and Highways. I think York BID offers great value for money providing services we need now more than ever.”
Marcus Doyle, Director, The Yorkshire Soap Company