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To help support our members during lockdown, we teamed up with local marketing experts to provide a free marketing webinar. Our experts, Heidi Chamberlain Jones from Minx Media Ltd and Ben Kinnaird covered topics that included how to re-engage your customers and best-practice tips for utilising...
With the reopening of shops and hospitality in the coming weeks, we wanted to remind you of the benefits of promoting your business on Hereford’s own loyalty app, LoyalFree. Hereford BID partnered with the award winning place-promotion app last year to offer our businesses additional advertising to...
Following a meeting of Herefordshire’s Safety Advisory Group, it has been determined and agreed with the event organisers that due to the pandemic, it would not be prudent to hold the Leominster and Hereford Mayfair events in their usual slots at the end of April/beginning of May. Instead, they are...
We want to brighten things up! After an underwhelming year, it is important that businesses and the city centre are looking their best as we welcome visitors back to Hereford. So, to help, the Hereford BID are offering two free hanging baskets for each HBID business. This all-inclusive offer...
Yesterday, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson set out a roadmap to easing lockdown in England which could see all limits on social contact lifted by 21 June. This new four-step plan allows restrictions to be lifted with a period of 5 weeks between each proposed step, ensuring sufficient time for data to...
The Hereford BID team are pleased to announce that, following the recent nominations for the HBID Board of Directors, we have three new members joining the board for 2021. Due to natural changes within the current HBID board, there were sufficient positions available for all applicants to be...
Hereford BID is proud to represent over 500 levy-paying businesses within Hereford, with the goal of enhancing, developing and promoting the city for the benefit of our members and anyone who lives in or visits Hereford. The BID is run by its members for its members, with a board of directors made...
Supreme Court judges have ruled in favour of policyholders following a case bought forward by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which aimed to provide legal clarity on business interruption insurance policies during the coronavirus crisis. Last spring, a large number of businesses made claims...
The Knife Angel, otherwise known as the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, is coming to Hereford in 2021. Standing 27ft high and weighing 3.5 tons, it is a spectacular sculpture of an angel. The sculpture took over two years to create from over 100,000 knives received from 43 police...
Herefordshire Council is developing the way it buys goods and services to maximise the benefit to local people and communities, the local economy and the environment. Since the Public Services Social Value Act 2012, public services have been required to consider how they can secure wider social,...