What you are telling us!

Inverness BID is an organisation that is run by business, for business. One of the ways the BID team knows how to target resources is by the use of surveys to gauge the business community’s opinion on a range of subjects.

Responding to a survey about the Winter Festival you told us that you haven’t found any differences between this year when the festival was run by the Highland Council and last years when it was run by the BID pilot project. You also added that your turnover has been static.

With regard to events in the City centre, you think that there should be more events of all kinds planned throughout the year, and that these would work best at weekends during the day (9am- 5pm). You also thought that there should be more advertising for events.

The majority of you are interested in a coordinated City Centre Sunday opening to coincide with the Christmas Lights switch on in December 2009 as it seems it had no effect on your turnover this year. Finally, you feel that now buses have returned to Union Street your prospects have significantly improved.

Inverness BID will conduct surveys regularly to make sure that the resources that you give us are targeted on what you think will be of greatest benefit to your business.