Dear BID Businesses,
With Christmas coming up, we’re excited to help promote your fantastic offers and events happening in our town centre.🎄Bognor Regis BID is dedicated to showcasing the best of our town, and your business is key to making it vibrant and welcoming. This year, we’re excited to feature your special Christmas offers and events on the Love Bognor Regis website and social media platforms.🎁
With over 14,000 visits to the Love Bognor Regis Christmas and Events page and a social media reach of 185,000 during last Christmas period, listing your event with us for free is a fantastic way to ensure maximum visibility and engagement this festive season!By engaging with us, you will benefit from:
⭐ Increased Visibility: Your events and offers will be prominently displayed on our website, reaching a wide audience.
⭐ Social Media Promotion: We will actively promote your business through our social media channels, ensuring maximum exposure.
⭐ Community Engagement: Join a network of local businesses working together to create a festive and engaging atmosphere in Bognor Regis.
What else is the BID doing this year?
We're really focusing on promoting the town, its businesses, and its offer this Christmas. Earlier this year, we supported the ice rink with event admin to help ensure this popular attraction stays in Bognor Regis. We’re also delighted to be funding the installation of a Christmas tree with full lighting in the Old Town, so this end of High Street and Queensway benefit from illumination.🎄
Once again, we'll be collating and showcasing everyone's festive offer this Christmas through our Love Bognor Regis platform. Through the bespoke Christmas page and popular 'What's On' event listings, we’ll once again be highlighting everything to see and do across the town, showing what a great place Bognor Regis is to experience the festive season.
BR BID at Christmas: Activity Overview and Key dates:
1. Small Business Saturday: Small Business Saturday is a UK campaign to support small businesses, taking place on the first Saturday in December each year. This year, it falls on Saturday, 7th December. The campaign encourages businesses to promote themselves, collaborate with other small businesses, and encourages consumers to ‘shop local’ and support small, independent businesses in their communities.
This year, the BID has supported ADC's campaign celebrating small businesses in Bognor Regis. Winners of the public vote were announced in November and received a professional photo shoot. These images and video will feature in a short film celebrating the local businesses that make our communities thrive, which will be shared on Small Business Saturday, 7th December. We can't wait to see the finished production! Well done to all the winners! 👏🙌 ADC are further supporting the event with free parking at Hothamton Car Park all day.
2. Christmas Tree installation at Old Town: We're delighted to be funding the installation of a Christmas tree with full lights in the Old Town, ensuring High Street and Queensway are illuminated.🎄
3. Promoting businesses: From Monday 18th November until Saturday 21st December we'll be promoting the listed events, promotions and offers featured on Love Bognor Regis.
Want to take part?
List your event for free here: https://lovebognorregis.co.uk/post-an-eventEmail us details of your festive offer for here: info@brbid.org
Deadline for all Christmas listings: Friday 29th November 2024.
4. BRTC Christmas Lights Switch On Event: BRTC’s fabulous Christmas lights will be switched on on Saturday 30th November 2024. The BID is delighted to be promoting their event on Love Bognor Regis website and social media channels. ADC are supporting the event with free parking at Fitzleet Multi-Storey Car Park from 12-6pm.
5. Promoting individual business’s events for Lights Switch On: Last year there was a great response from businesses celebrating the Lights Switch On event and benefitting from the extra footfall! Let us know your “Switch On” event plans for the 30th of November this year, and we’ll help you reach a wider audience through promotion on Love Bognor Regis.
Want to take part? List your event for free here: https://lovebognorregis.co.uk/post-an-event5.
6. Christmas Window Displays: There’s no formal competition this year, but we’ll promote businesses sharing images of their window display through BID and Love Bognor Regis social media channels.
Want to take part?
Tag us in to your social posts or send us pictures by emailing info@brbid.org and we’ll be delighted to share.
7. Late night opening suggestion: We know that late night opening isn't always feasible, but if you're open to staying open for a little bit later than usual, then Saturday 30th November is a great choice to benefit from the extra footfall coming in for the Lights Switch On event. We’ll promote your business’s later opening hours through the Love Bognor Regis channels.
Want to take part?List your late night opening event here: https://lovebognorregis.co.uk/post-an-event
8. Promoting the town: We’ll be showcasing the whole town’s festive offer on a dedicated Christmas page on Love Bognor Regis. We’d love to feature any special events you’re running within your business.
Want to take list an event?
Simply list your event at: https://lovebognorregis.co.uk/post-an-event and we’ll be sure to promote it through the Love Bognor Regis channels.
We really hope you’ll get engaged with the promotion opportunities available this Christmas, and look forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
Clair
BR BID Team
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