{"id":18361,"date":"2017-04-14T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:31:56","slug":"abingdon-bid-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18361","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon BID &#8211; One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon-on-Thames Business Improvement District, covering the town centre, was two years in the planning, and has been operating now for one year. <\/p>\n<p>It was voted in by a majority of businesses, and charges businesses a levy in addition to the usual business rate. It has employed a town centre manager, and in feedback to members has noted the following achievements &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041303.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon BID\" \/><br \/>\nIt has developed the Visit Abingdon brand, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180512235508\/http:\/\/www.visitabingdon.co.uk:80\/\">visitabingdon.co.uk<\/a> website and a promotional brochure for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>It has co-ordinated an annual events calendar, and helped put on new seasonal events at Hallowe&#8217;en, Christmas (Carols round town) , and Easter (Egg and Spoon races)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon BID\" \/><br \/>\nIt has put up bunting in bid areas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041302.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon BID\" \/><br \/>\nIt has installed footfall counters in 9 locations and monitors and reports the findings and the effect of promotions.<\/p>\n<p>It has set up workshops on business topics such as using social media, and is looking to develop a utilities buying group.<\/p>\n<p>It chases up landlords of empty units and contacts potential businesses to attract them to the area. <\/p>\n<p>It also reports minor issues in the BID area to councils, and lobbies councils on larger issues such as the future use of the charter, and the empty Upper Reaches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon-on-Thames Business Improvement District, covering the town centre, was two years in the planning, and has been operating now for one year. It was voted in by a majority of businesses, and charges businesses a levy in addition to the usual business rate. It has employed a town centre manager, and in feedback to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}