Supporting Businesses Through Covid & Beyond
Support offered through Covid-19
In March 2020, businesses faced huge uncertainty as they were told to close their doors. Some grants had to be applied for, whilst other funding was paid out, new regulations had to be complied with, it was a time of enormous confusion and stress.
Throughout this devastating time, BID Leamington was interpreting, translating and communicating the latest announcements so businesses could easily understand what they were eligible for and how they needed to respond. Our communications became a regular and trusted source of information for many businesses that didn’t know where else to turn, particularly through the enormous amount of change being imposed.
In the meantime we were also lobbying central government through our national business networks to secure support for those sectors that had been left behind, by joining campaigns such as #RaiseTheBar, #MakeSomeNoise, #BounceBackBetter. Among other things this work secured millions of pounds in grant support for our members.
Two years on, Covid-19 remains a challenge alongside a host of new issues facing businesses including labour shortages and rising overhead costs. BID Leamington continues to highlight these critical issues facing businesses locally and nationally to secure additional support, as seen in our recent #BusinessSOS campaign. Your continued feedback is very much valued.
Providing Expert Information and Clarity
During this ‘unprecedented’ time, BID Leamington re-focussed all our activity to respond to the needs of our businesses.
New regulations and ways of working needed to be understood and adopted at a rapid rate. BID Leamington hosted a number of free on-line workshops with sector experts to help businesses understand the wide variety of changes that were being introduced. Answering questions such as: what is furlough? who is eligible? how to claim? through a live Q & A webinar with local HR company Absolute Works provided answers enabling businesses to move through these challenging times with clarity.
Building consumer confidence
BID Leamington initiated a number of creative campaigns to help build consumer confidence during this time to help footfall return when businesses were able to open.
Some of these projects gained us great publicity such as our Social Distancing Flowers, BID Butterflies and Spa Stars.
These were consumer based campaigns in partnership with the business community to keep everyone safe and expressing gratitude to some wonderful people.
Projects from BID Leamington
The BID team is here to keep you posted with all things that we’ve been doing. Below are some of the projects that we’ve recently been working on. If you have a project that you would like help delivering please contact us.
