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Business Link is a government funded free advice service for businesses. Business Link currently offers a free health check for businesses which covers finance, strategy, marketing...more details
Parking - the good news
Pay on exit parking was a popular project in the BID plan. However the cost of over half a million pounds for Dorchester is prohibitive so, in discussion with West Dorset District Council the BID has come up with a more immediate and much cheaper solution - pay by phone. 
This very simple idea allows you to register your mobile phone with the service. You arrive in any Dorchester car park, dial a local number, enter a 4 digit car park code displayed by the Pay and Display machine and select how long you wish to park. Then you just go shopping! The really clever bit is that 10 minutes before your ‘ticket’ expires you get a text alerting you and inviting you to extend your time remotely! Brilliant! After agreement in September to run a pilot of this scheme in Dorchester WDDC moved extremely quickly to set this up by mid-November. Council leader Robert Gould and the BID's Phil Gordon launched the scheme on 17th November in time for Christmas shopping! Register now for Pay by Phone parking in Dorchester at Ring Go or by phoning 0203 046 0010. The same registration will currently also cover parking at Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and will apply to the rest of Dorset when the scheme is rolled out. |
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 new 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 and suggest ideas that could make good projects for future inclusion in the BID. Town businesses within the BID area can vote for the project ideas that had been put forward. We would like people to continue voting so that we can see which other issues to tackle if money becomes available.Sign up now !
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