Business Improvement Districts
Find out about our Business Improvement Districts.
The Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) exist to work on behalf and for the success of the wider business community, based on the principle that we can achieve much more through working together to increase customers, stimulate investment and enhance the reputation of our area.
The Giffnock Village BID area is focused on the core of the Giffnock area. This currently equates to circa 70 properties
The Giffnock BID area starts at the Stratstone Mercedes Benz dealership on Fenwick Road and extends south to Pane e Vino on Fenwick Road where it will finish. It'll take in all businesses on either side of this road between these 2 points.
Aims
The aims of the Giffnock BID are:
- To improve the economic opportunities for the businesses in Giffnock
- To bring customers to Giffnock and improve repeat spend in the area
- To improve the physical look and feel of the area
- To market Giffnock to local, regional and national audience
- To create a sense of community by improving businesses and local relationships
- To make the BID 'cost neutral' for each business
- To address issues of for all businesses - not just particular sectors
- To give businesses a strong, unified voice
- To support local community groups whose aims align with the BID
Website
Contact the BID Manager
Email: sharon@yoyoep.com
All About Barrhead began in September 2016 and comprises almost 150 local businesses. The area of the BID begins at Tesco on Kelburn Street and encompasses all the business along the Main Street as well as all those businesses along Cross Arthurlie Street until it meets Carlibar Road as well as the businesses on Cochran Street.
Aims
The aims of the Barrhead BID are to:
- showcase Barrhead as a positive place to live, work, shop and visit. It achieves these goals through various community events which have become a staple of the local calendar such as the Barrhead Rainbow Run and the Big Barrhead Hallowe'en Parade, to name just two.
- give support to businesses in various ways. Barrhead's first term will end in 2021, at which point it will look to achieve a second term through a renewal ballot.
Barrhead BID Renewal Ballot 2021
The ballot to decide whether to renew the Barrhead Business Improvement District has now ended.
The result of the ballot was to renew the Business Improvement District.
Website
https://www.allaboutbarrhead.co.uk/
www.Facebook.com/allaboutbarrhead
Contact the BID Manager
Email: andy@allaboutbarrhead.co.uk
I Love Clarkston began in 2010 and is currently in its second term as a BID. Around 130 businesses make up Clarkston's BID and those businesses can be found starting at the Toll roundabout, along Busby Road, Sheddens roundabout and Eaglesham Road, as well as businesses on Hillview Drive, Mearns Road and Benview Road.
Aims
The aims of the Clarkston BID are to:
- highlight Clarkston as a positive place to live, shop, work and visit. This is achieved through highly popular community events, in particular the annual A Merry Clarkston Christmas, which has attracted upwards of 15,000.
- provide support to businesses in many forms. Clarkston's second term will end in 2021, at which point a renewal ballot will be held with the aim of achieving a third term.
Clarkston BID Renewal Ballot 2021
The ballot to decide whether to renew the Clarkston Business Improvement District has now ended.
The result of the ballot was to renew the Business Improvement District.
Website
www.Facebook.com/iloveclarkston
Contact the BID Manager
Email: andy@erbids.com
