I have received a reply from Neil Scott, the BID manager from Truro, with the following advice.
"In the meantime and in response to your specific question, you should form a steering group to firstly investigate through consultation with the local business community if a BID is both viable and desirable. This will need some dedicated resource (I recall this phase taking me 3-6 months working full time when I first got involved in the BID world in Reading in 2005 – I’ll explain more when we talk) so you will need the following:
· Steering Group – membership from local business community (possibly the Chamber if it is active?), local authority (whilst a BID is entirely independent from the public sector, the local authority does need to sanction it). Suggest you keep it to half a dozen at this stage
· Some project resource
· An office
· A PC
· A website
So I would suggest one of the next steps is to secure a small budget for the above. Also check out the British BIDs national website – a really useful resource for developing BIDs and also for existing ones."
So that's it, that's all we have to do, easy....
Even although there has been little or no response to this idea, I would like to think, there has been a foundation laid, one that can grow, a lot of people have read and followed this thread, I hope some, from one of the business organisations, who could explore and expand it further.
Chamber of Trade.......All businesses
Llandudno Hospitality....Hotel and Restaurant group
Llandudno Development Partnership......Xmas Fayre..etc.
Llandudno heritage Trust...Victorian Extravaganza ...Xmas lights....Gt Orme Exploration Soc....Friends of Happy Valley......the Tourist Board....Craig Y Don Business Group....North shore beach group...ETC. Sorry for any omissions,please let me know if I have missed you out.
All of these group's and people, put a great deal of effort and time into making Llandudno better, look at the Tripadvisor reports, Top hotels in the country, top attractions, and in the top 10 UK destination list, just look at the great result's, despite the difficulties (financial/manpower) some of these groups have to overcome.
So what would happen if they all got together.
If you have any further ideas, or comments, please get in touch, here or E mail