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Mansfield BID AGM update 2014/15 Sarah Nelson – BID Manager
Safe & Secure - £ • 4368 – Ambassadors Patrol Hours • 102 – Members Radio Scheme • Facilitation of tasking meeting and town banning orders • Administration of MALV • 2 – Rapid deployable CCTV Kits • 1248 –Night Street Marshals Patrol Hours / Street Pastors • Crime Prevention Campaigns – Public and Businesses • National Minimum Standard written by Mansfield BID • Winners of Gold Certificate by MRCI for outstanding work • Lead on successful Purple Flag Award • Roll out across county of our Business Crime Partnership
Cleansing & Maintenance £ • Over £90,000saved collectively • Over 10 Tonnes of Cardboard removed a year • Dedicated Chewing gum removal • Snow & Graffiti Removal • Keep Britain Tidy Award • Granted a Lenghtsman contract from NCC • FREE PAT testing • Continued waste removal, cleansing & Low level maintenance and decorating • 1 of 11 towns selected to take part in a national chewing gum campaign with Keep Britain Tidy
Marketing £ • Town centre website - over 4500 hits a month - Over 12,000 views of pages are made per month • ‘I Love Mansfield’ scheme to encourage civic pride with: • - 4,000 likes on the I Love Mansfield • - 6,000 Members of the ‘I Love Mansfield’ ‘Privilege card • - Trent Barton Mango Bus cards - 50,000 members • Extensive media promotions through local newspapers / radio/ bus advertising / leaflet promotions • Adedicated press officer • ‘Down Town’ Town Centre Magazine and/ or ‘Your Evening Out in Mansfield’ brochure - both having over 10,000 copies produced and distributed to only local residents, Tourist Information Centres, Hotels and high footfall destinations
Appealing Mansfield £ • Annual extension to the fabulous Christmas lights to expand the lights through all of the town centre where ever possible • The installation of 150 Yearly hanging baskets and planters • Silver winners in Britain in Bloom Award for the town centre • Improvement of empty shop frontages • Designing out crime in particular hotspot areas • Improved gateway and wayfinding signage • Dressing town for major events such as the Olympics Access Mansfield £ • ‘Town Centre Shopping Guide’ and ‘Your Evening out in Mansfield’ 10,000 copies are produced for circulation • New key gateway signage installed welcoming visitors to Mansfield • A NEW £47,000 way finding signage scheme has been installed, funds raised and project managed by the BID team. • Funding and installation gained from Nottinghamshire County Council to refresh and install new directional signage in to the town
Invest in Mansfield £ • FREE Wi-Fi for all visitors - on average 3000 IP requests an hour • Runners up of the Great British High Street award for the Market Town Category • 1 of 29 towns to be awarded the Healthy High Street Campaign with support from Boots, M&S, Santander and Co-Op • Access to better rates for gas, electricity and insurance saving collectively over £40,526 to date • Facilitation and chairing of Mansfield’s Town Team accessing over £10,000 additional funds during 2013 for the town centre • Granted £20,000 from NCC to conduct a scoping exercise to apply for a large NHL fund • Regular Free Workshops including Fire Risk Assesment and First Aid Training • Customer Service Awards
Election Results • New 5 Year business plan released September 2014 • Continuation of Core Services + stronger strategic initiatives • No changes made to boundary • No changes made to levy % • 5 week voting period – 17th October – 13th Nov 2014 • RESULTS: • 77% In Favour • 66% In Favour by aggregate rateable value • 55% Turnout • Strong Mandate for the new BID period which will run from 6th April 2015 – 31st March 2020
2015/16Priorities • Continuation of core services • Purple Flag celebration and re assessment • Bigger Customer Service Awards • Grant Finder offer • Workshops including PR advice • Bigger marketing campaign including Notts TV • Work with NCC to submit a large heritage lottery fund • Work with D2N2 and LA’s to encourage a joint Market Town • Work with NCC on place branding scheme • Further development of the Healthy High Street Campaign
MANY THANKS FOR LISTENING 01623 635675 Sarah@mansfieldbid.com