Business voice and representation

Business engagement and representation

Ongoing engagement with levy‑paying businesses to understand issues, share insight and inform BID priorities

Sheffield BID engages with levy‑paying businesses across all sectors to understand day‑to‑day challenges, capture insight and ensure business perspectives inform advocacy, partnership working and programme delivery.

Engagement is tailored to different sectors and ways of operating, including:

• Regular on‑street engagement through the BID Buddies, providing visible, accessible contact with customer‑facing and B2C businesses
• Planned business visits and sector‑based engagement to support more in‑depth discussion with office‑based, institutional and professional service organisations
• Structured engagement activity designed to gather consistent insight across different sectors and business sizes
• Feedback and insight from engagement used to shape BID advocacy, service development and partnership priorities

Supports ongoing two‑way communication between levy payers and the BID throughout the year. Levy‑paying businesses are encouraged to engage with the BID team to share issues, priorities or sector‑specific insight.