Local business acting together to improve places with speakers including Mike Doran Communication Manager Liverpool City Central BID

City Central Business Improvement District (BID) 61 streets across 49 acres Approx. 640 businesses 5 shopping centres 20,000 workers Half a million visitors a week UK’s busiest underground station outside of London City Central levy 1.2% = £1.3m p/a turnover. 5 year programme to 2018 focusing on 4 core areas including environment.

Welcome to Liverpool

Welcome to Liverpool

A clean city centre What are the challenges?

Cultural & Visitor Economy Liverpool’s visitor economy attracts 10m visitors a year, generates £2.8bn, sustains 40,000 jobs. Global brands.

Events, Animation & Use of Public Open Spaces Annual events Commercial Hire of Public Spaces Blue chip companies Large Scale events Identifying additional sites to increase Footfall Christmas Lights Advent Calendar Taste of Spain

Night Time Economy Britain’s best Nightlife destination. (TripAdvisor) UK’s friendliest city. (Conde Nast Traveller) Best UK city. (Group Leisure) 150,000 revellers every weekend

Partnerships with key agencies Academy One Arts Council England ATCM Chamber of Commerce Engage Liverpool Enterprise Liverpool Experiential Agencies Keep Britain Tidy LARC Liverpool City Council Liverpool ONE Liverpool Vision Merseyside Fire Brigade Merseyside Police Merseytravel Merseyrail Open Culture PFRA Ropewalks

24% of adults smoke compared to 20% nationally one fifth of 15-year olds smoke 20% of city centre bins with no ash trays Liverpool city council announced £150m of cuts over next three years On top of £173m since 2010 New 7 years cleansing contract cut by 25% Alleygating team scrapped Stat attack – In Liverpool…

Personal Ashtrays – 15,000 distributed with support of major supermarkets Awareness raising campaigns And next up…. bins designed by students No butts

Fly away… Liverpool - Port city Feeding Pigeons and Seagulls 2 pronged solution Hawk patrols Nest clearing with support of businesses

It’s all about partnerships... … and it’s a long and winding road!

Mike Doran Communications Manager Liverpool City Central BID