Bournemouth BID
The Bournemouth Town Centre BID represents and supports more than 700 levy paying businesses and promotes, markets, and helps fund Bournemouth as a vibrant, safe, clean, attractive and experiential place to be.
The BID was first established in 2012 and received further five-year mandates from its business community in 2017 and 2022.
It invests millions of pounds into the Bournemouth town centre economy, lobbies at a local and national level and acts as the key voice for the town centre and business community.
Bournemouth town centre offers exciting opportunities for investment. It benefits from a superb location and environment, next to the renowned beaches and with the town’s famous gardens at its heart. These natural features make the town centre an attractive place to live, work, visit and invest.
Bournemouth has two highly regarded universities, both with global reputations and around 10-15,000 students.
The strong education sector also includes Bournemouth and Poole College and the new pioneering Livingstone Academy.
This sector is just one part of a hugely dynamic creative and cultural offering with an important and significant international dimension.
In addition, the long-established international language school sector alone contributes £350m to the Bournemouth economy.
Meanwhile Bournemouth’s annual visitor economy remains buoyant.
Staying visitor trips total 886,000 with staying visitor spend at £252,192,000.
Bournemouth has one of the most vibrant night time economies in the south of England as well as a strong financial district.
There is a healthy national and local retail sector with a proven independent retail model and a hugely popular and diverse hospitality offering.
Town centre living is an increasing focus and fast becoming one of the key drivers for the town’s future success.
For businesses thinking of relocating or starting up in Bournemouth, there is an extensive support infrastructure including the Town Centre BID, the council’s Economic Development team and existing businesses who see their role as helping the town grow and prosper through collaboration.
