Thanks to all the people in BID projects. Our benchmarking and best practice exercise looked at many BIDs in the UK and Europe and helped us to save time and reduce costs and get the benefit from their experiences.

Thanks to the BIDS in Bedford / Better Bankside / Birmingham / Blackpool / Bolton Industrial Area / Brighton / Bristol / Broadmed / Camden / Coventry / Cowpen Industrial Estate / Great Yarmouth / Greater Hammersmith / Hainult / Heart of London / Holborn / Hull / Ipswich / Keswick / Kingston First / London Bridge / Lincoln / Liverpool / London New West End Company / Paddington / Plymouth / Reading / Rugby / Stapleford / Swansea / Waterloo Quarter / West Bromwich / Winsford...and pilots: Bathgate, Falkirk, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire. Special thanks to Ealing Broadway, your website gave us inspiration for developing this website.

Thanks to colleagues from the other five Scottish BID pathfinder projects (Bathgate, Clackmannanshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk and Glasgow) and to Ian for your support in creating this website.

Special thanks to Kate, Sarah, Marie, Douglas, Suzette and all the other people in the City Partnership Office, Inverness, for their thoughts, time and ideas to make this website happen.

Thanks to Hazel at Highland Vision for designing this new website.

Thanks to the members of the BID Task Group and the City of Inverness businesses who work closely together on this new project for Inverness.

And thanks to all the people who visit the BID Inverness website. We hope you enjoy the homepage and find all the information you need to decide and vote for a BID Inverness in autumn 2007.

Stefan Krause

Inverness City BID Co-ordinator