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Town CentresVibrant town centres and villages offer many benefits - for residents, visitors and local businesses. If you want to know what’s going on in your business neighbourhood - Contact your local business association! Gone are the days of pompous meetings and stuffy protocol. Today many local business associations are practising cooperative marketing, business 2 business networking and using their combined voice to advocate change in their commercial neighbourhoods.
There are two types of business associations operating on the North Shore; Voluntary Associations and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs).
Voluntary Associations rely heavily on members joining, supporting and getting involved to implement the associations objectives.
BIDs
A BID is set up in partnership with North Shore City Council. BIDs look at the town centre as a destination business cooperative, managed by a Town Centre Association. BIDs follow a business model to set and achieve objectives, develop and implement a business plan and budget and manage cash flow. A crucial part of a BID is the implementation of a target rate. A rate or levy collected by Council as part of the general rate take. This target rate or levy is passed on by Council to the BID association to implement the business plan and associated activities. Click here to find out about the North Shore City Council BID programme. We can help Enterprise North Shore's Vital Town Centres project offers specialist help to businesses, community groups and North Shore City Council to develop and implement local growth initiatives for the town centres associations and main shopping areas within North Shore City. Adopting or creating a Town Centre management programme, Business Improvement District (BID) or Mainstreet project gives each individual town centre association the opportunity to improve their physical environment, enhance and sustain business growth and develop partnerships for the mutual benefit of all stakeholders within the community. The key elements of the programmes are:
For more information about how we can help your town centre business association, contact: Claire Siddens |