BID Information
Board Meeting:
ATTENTION all visitors to Dorchester! Shoppers can get a refund on up to 2 hours of car park or on street parking. Every ticket has a tear off voucher which can be exchanged at a large number of participating stores. See our page on dorchesterdorset.com for details.
Workshop MeetingBID levy payers are invited to an informal workshop meeting at The King's Arms, Casterbridge Room on Wednesday January 25th from 5pm to 7pm. This will give us a chance to kick start a period of consultation ahead of a reballot early next year and we will be looking at issues affecting Dorchester now and likely to affect Dorchester in the next 5 years. There will be refreshments and anyone not able to make the start time will still be able to join in group discussions when they arrive. WDDC Parking ReportThe WDDC Scrutiny Team carried out an investigation in response to worries about loss of car parking in Dorchester following the start of Phase 1 building work in Charles Street. They heard evidence and ideas on what needed to be done from both the BID and Dorchester Chamber of Commerce. Considerable progress has been made since then with improved signage, the release of up to 37 extra spaces in Top O Town car park on Wednesdays, an imminent trial of "Parking Ambassadors" to help visitors find spaces and find out a little about the town and improved support for traders who participate in the parking voucher scheme (40% of costs back from BID/WDDC). For the full report in pdf form go to scrutiny team report. Start up businesses in Dorchester can save up to £50,000 Registered businesses - log in to download the results of our BID survey of levy payers. Ideas and feedback please to Phil Gordon at philg@dorchesterdorset.co.uk |
Directory
If you own or run a business in the BID area, you are invited to register with us. You will then be able to add your business to a directory on an exciting Dorchester web site www.dorchesterdorset.com completely free.
This is an great opportunity for anyone without a website to create a web page about their business and for those with a website already it will provide a valuable link from a very relevant directory.
Already registered? Add your directory entry today. Log in above using your registered email address as the user name and your password. Forgotten your password? Just fill in your registered email address in the reminder box and it will be sent to you.
This is the site for the Dorchester BID (Business Improvement District). Dorchester is an attractive market town set in the beautiful Dorset countryside and just inland from the famous Jurassic Coast - a World Heritage site. The town has a rich history, much evidence of which is still plainly visible. Maiden Castle, the largest hill fort in Britain lies just outside Dorchester and takes this history back 5,000 years to the late Stone Age/early Bronze Age. One of the aims of the BID is to focus attention on the attractions of the town.
Businesses in the town and others interested are invited to apply for free registration for this website. Registering will allow BID area businesses to make a Directory entry for our Town promotion website www.dorchesterdorset.com.
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