Surrey BIDs

The county of Surrey is currently home to 12 Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and this number is set to increase over the next 5 years. Collectively, Surrey’s BIDs have a total of 3,700* member organisations and have an annual income of £2,617,000*. The towns represented by BIDs are: Camberley, Caterham, Cobham, Cranleigh, Dorking, Epsom, Farnham, Godalming, Guildford, Oxted, Staines on Thames, Walton on Thames. The organisations contributing to Surrey’s BIDs are a mixture of retail, hospitality, professional services, education providers, public service providers and service industries. They range in size from start-up micro businesses to household name multinationals. They provide employment, services and entertainment, they are a focus for hundreds of thousands of residents. BIDs are not statutory authorities, the business communities in each BID area have coalesced and proactively decided that a BID would bring benefit and tangible improvement to their individual places. A legal framework managed by the Department for Housing, Communities and Levelling Up enables BIDs. BIDs have individual aims, decided by the businesses in each place but we all have an underlying single-minded aim; providing residents, workers and visitors with clean, safe, vibrant and attractive places, where events, culture and arts are represented and visible. BIDs are managed by small, flexible, quick to react and endlessly adaptable teams. When working collectively as Surrey BIDs, we are able to offer even better value, give the most broad representation of the Surrey business community, and collaborate on an even greater scale, if it means improved delivery to the levy paying organisations we represent.