Roll over the BAFTAs, you’ve heard it here first, the BAPTAs have arrived! Let us walk you down the red carpet and introduce you to the latest award ceremony to reach the South of England, the BAPTAs! Organisers can now officially announce and reveal that the 12th local tourism awards will be known as...
BID’s Gather In Bournemouth for the ATCM Annual Conference The Bournemouth Coastal BID has recently welcomed BID businesses from around the UK at the Annual Association of Town and City Management Annual Conference. The ATCM, a national organisation, focusing on the creation, development, and management of vibrant...
On the 27th June national aesthetics group, sk:n held a VIP open day and unveiled their brand new premises situated on Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. sk:n completed a refurbishment and the clinic now boasts state-of-the-art treatment rooms and additional top-spec equipment. The team at sk:n Bournemouth greeted...
ATCM Annual Conference & Summer School 2017 This years annual conference will take place in Bournemouth on 29 and 30 June. We hope to see as many of you as possible for the event which includes our annual awards. The event will commence with study tours (starting...
Which party will end business rates and replace it with a system based on turnover? Who will reform Corporation Tax to end large scale tax evasion? Who is pledging to end homelessness in the UK? And who has pledge to cut tourism VAT? Association of...
Free HR Session for Businesses from Peninsula & Coastal BID Two leading organisations, Peninsula and Bournemouth Coastal BID have teamed up to bring you an exciting event. You have been personally selected to attend this invitation-only event which will provide invaluable advice on preparing your business...
Coastal Businesses renew their BID for Five More Years & £6M investment. Bournemouth Coastal Business Improvement District (BID) has been voted through by coastal businesses and will now utilise a total budget of £6,526,400 to realise their 2017-2022 Business Plans. Celebrating their successful renewal ballot, the Bournemouth...
The new European personal data regulations come into force in 2018 – You need to start preparing now. In May next year, the Data Protection Act (DPA) will be replaced by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a framework with greater scope and much tougher...
As an ambassador and supporter of the Coastal BID, we would like to ask for your support in raising awareness of the renewal ballot over social media and help us gain those crucial ‘yes’ votes. When you have received your ballot paper, we ask that you...
Following five successful years, Bournemouth Coastal Business Improvement District (BID) is up for renewal. Securing a ‘yes’ vote will mean another £6.5 million of investment into Bournemouth’s coastal areas so the BID can continue to enhance Bournemouth as a vibrant, attractive, eventful, connected, safe, and...
Bournemouth’s Coastal BID has laid down plans to support the growth of businesses on the Seafront. Utilising beautiful award winning beaches, they plan to attract new signature events, especially between October and March to grow the number of off-season visitors. Raising awareness for the special character...
The Bournemouth Coastal BID is planning regular enhancement programmes to attract more visitors to Southbourne. They plan to maximise the town's character, promoting its artisan and independent businesses. Initiatives aim to improve Southbourne’s parking offer and links with local transport. Building on the success of events,...
Utilising a £1,790,000 spend, The Coastal BID business community have revealed their 2017-2022 investment plans for Boscombe. These include developing Boscombe’s offer as a shopping experience by enhancing Bournemouth’s only regular fresh food market, held Thursdays and Saturdays in Boscombe. Following the 2016 Boscombe Summer Games,...
Between 2017-2022 the Coastal BID is planning to enhance Bournemouth’s Food and Drink sector. A pivotal part of the visitor experience in Bournemouth, for both locals and tourists, they have set aside a £1,100,000 investment budget to support coastal food and drink businesses. Having nurtured wide-scale...
The Bournemouth Coastal BID is planning a significant investment in tourism, Bournemouth’s largest business sector that includes the second largest number of businesses after retail. They plan to invest £2,350,000 between 2017 and 2022. From consultation, businesses want to continue with destination marketing, exploiting Bournemouth’s...
The Coastal BID has set aside £2,026,400 to support a dramatically changing and evolving retail sector. In the next five years, they plan to help Bournemouth’s coastal businesses develop multiple channels through which consumers can experience and buy. Important to the future success of businesses, they...
Cliff House Hotel, Southbourne's boutique hotel, is pleased to announce the appointment of Frederic Dallot, as our new Operations Manager. Frederic brings a wealth of experience and expertise from the hotel industry. With key skills in logistics and exceptional planning, Frederic, will join the team...
Bournemouth’s Town Centre and Coastal Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have unveiled ambitious Business Plans for a further five years at a re-ballot launch event. Welcoming stakeholders, levy paying businesses and the Mayor of Bournemouth at Beales Department Store, Bournemouth, the Town Centre BID and Coastal BID...
Bournemouth’s Coastal Business Improvement District (BID) to launch ‘Yes’ campaign, ahead of their renewal vote. The Coastal BID will be delivering its 2017-2022 Business Plan at a dedicated launch event on Thursday 30th March 2017. The event will encourage businesses to invest collectively in improving their...
Bournemouth’s coastal businesses have launched a prize filled Golden Easter Bunny competition. Uniting over Easter, the Coastal BID and Bournemouth’s coastal businesses have launched an exciting #LoveBournemouthBunnies competition. A fun and interactive activity, the competition aims to encourage more visitors and local people to explore...
The Tourism event of the year is fast approaching, which will see hundreds of guests gather for an evening of celebration, fun and entertainment, as well as a chance to meet with their peers from local businesses and rub shoulders with VIPs from the Tourism...
As you may know, Wessex Water have been repairing the Bournemouth coastal interceptor sewer (CIS) – a sewer that is 18 metres below Percy Road and takes flows to Holdenhurst sewage treatment works, in Bournemouth. A temporary overland pipe, which runs from an access point in...
BUSINESSES in Bournemouth are being given the chance to skill up their workforce with a fully funded online digital marketing course, thanks to a partnership between Bournemouth Coastal BID and Digital Dorset. Offered by Digital Dorset, a Weymouth College initiative, the Digital Promotion for Business course...
How Coastal BID advocated ATCM in achieving the Policy Landscape transformed since the Turn of the Year The policy landscape in the UK for town and city centres, and the people who manage them, looks different now, to what it did just a few weeks ago....
The Lunar New Year Celebrations begin in Boscombe this weekend...
Celebs and Bournemouth Businesses Join BCTC for Festivities More than two hundred business people along with local and national celebrities attended the Bournemouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce Winter Wonderland Ball to mark the end of the BCTC Centenary year Over 200 businesses gathered at the Cumberland...
It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas at The Royal Arcade in Boscombe! The art deco Royal Arcade is a warm, welcoming and festive place to be this Christmas so why not spend time checking out the unique and individual shops, alongside pop up Christmas...
New refit unveiled at Beach and Body Westbourne Beach and Body the swimwear specialist boutique in Westbourne has unveiled a newly refitted shop, owner Melanie Mogford is also celebrating her FORTIETH Christmas in retailing and embarked on a fabulous refit of the shop which took a...
Westbourne Christmas Lights Fiesta - Saturday 3rd December 2016 Saturday 3rd December saw crowds drawn to Westbourne for its first ever Christmas Fiesta of Lights. The light fiesta included LED balloons, UV lights, glow paint, fire shows, live music, performers and dancers, the entertainers wowed the...
Coastal BID AGM 2016 On Thursday 17th November, the Bournemouth Coastal BID AGM took place at the Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel. This was an opportunity for individuals from Coastal BID levy paying businesses to get further involved in future projects by putting themselves forward as Directors...
THIS IS IMPORTANT! Your rights to challenge the Business Rates Revaluation 2017! Note the deadline 30th November fast approaching! The 2017 Rating Revaluation will produce the largest changes in Rateable Value for a generation – businesses may be sleepwalking into the effects without planning for the...
Small Business Saturday National Tour Bus visits Westbourne Westbourne businesses are looking forward to welcoming the national Small Business Saturday team to their thriving urban village on Friday 25th November as part of its ‘Small Business, Big Difference’ A - B bus tour. The tour starts...
B Amazed at Bournemouth’s Christmas Celebration, 18 November Christmas 2016 officially kicks off this Friday, 18 November with a fun-filled musical extravaganza at Pier Approach thanks to Bournemouth’s Coastal Business Improvement District (BID) – starting with a pre-event performance at 6.15pm before the main show at...
Westbourne welcomes you to join them as they light up the town with their FIRST EVER Light Fiesta and Festivities and join forces in the spirit of Christmas. Westbourne will be shining bright and transformed into wonderland of activities for all to enjoy. This year, instead...
BTAs has joined forces with Bournemouth University and Bournemouth and Poole College for the 2017 awards The Bournemouth Tourism Awards has joined forces with the local Bournemouth University (BU) and with Bournemouth and Poole College for an exciting partnership for the duration of the 2017 event. The official...
Coastal BID invites you to the Bournemouth BIDs Conference The Bournemouth Coastal Business Improvement District (Coastal BID) and Bournemouth Town Centre Business Improvement District seek to bring together stakeholders, businesses and your place managers to discuss best practice, interesting ideas, to learn from each other and...
Powerboat P1 launch event at the Hallmark Hotel Bournemouth West Cliff The Grand Finale of the Powerboat P1 Grand Prix of the Sea took place on the sea front for the third consecutive year in association with the Coastal BID. The Launch took place at the Hallmark...
P1 Powerboat and AquaX jet ski racing returned to Bournemouth for the 3rd year running for another action packed weekend of high speed marine motor sport action and family entertainment along the beach front and on the pier, with racing heats from Bournemouth to Boscombe...
Business Tourism Marketing Thanks to a further year’s funding from Bournemouth Coastal BID, Business Events Bournemouth will be producing a new Conferences, Meetings & Services Directory for 2016/17. This project forms just a small part of the overall Business Tourism marketing plan which integrates with BH Live conference...
One day in Westbourne is never enough For Summer 2016, many of the traders in Westbourne have some fantastic offers available up until the end of August. This is a perfect opportunity to discover Westbourne and the hub of unique, independent and quirky shops in this thriving urban...
“Westbourne launches ‘summer scene’ drawing competition with the opportunity to win one of two Ipad Minis!” Bournemouth Coastal Business Improvement District (BID) has funded and launched a ‘summer scene’ drawing competition for children with the opportunity to win one of two i Pad Minis. The competition...
“Thriving Westbourne is the place to be this summer!” Summer has definitely arrived in Westbourne and the unique urban village is feeling the summer vibe and getting ready to celebrate its Summer Festival which takes place from Monday 8th – Sunday 14th August. A packed programme of...
The Grand Prix of the Sea race series heads to Dorset in September for the final round of the season! Locals and visitors to the south coast are set for a real treat when the two P1 marine motorsport championships return to Bournemouth seafront for the...
The Bishop of Winchester Academy join forces A-One Insurance Group and win the Schools in Bloom competition A-One Insurance Group sponsored a group of students from the Wellbeing Centre at The Bishop of Winchester Academy (TBOWA) from years 7, 8 & 9 to design, plant and...
HAVE YOUR SAY TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF YOUR COASTAL BID! The Bournemouth Coastal Business Improvement District (Coastal BID) wants to get your views on what you think has improved your trading environment and what we should be focussing on over the next few years to...
Westbourne has hanging baskets again! It has been the vision of Westbourne in Bloom to have hanging baskets again in the Westbourne Arcade as there has not been any for a number of many years. Plans were set back by finding out several months ago that...
Free Cycle Parking available to all Bournemouth small businesses, landlords and non-profit organisations A total of 50 free Cycle Stands are available for small businesses, community groups, non-profit organisations and landlords in Bournemouth to install on their premises’ for free, thanks to funding from Bournemouth Borough...
Bournemouth brings you foodie fun for the month of June The Bournemouth Food & Drink festival is back for another year from Friday 17th June to Sunday 26th June, bringing 10 days of delicious food, drink and entertainment to our beautiful coast. The festival will bring a...
Huge success for Bournemouth Wheels Festival 2016...
Westbourne Urban Village hosts a dedicated food and drink month in June showcasing the unique and diverse selection of food and drink available in this much loved destination for foodies...
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