Liverpool BID Business Support Update

Date posted:
Thu 02 April 2020

Since the lockdown began, we’ve been talking to businesses daily, even hourly, through various channels. We’ve hosted meetings with different industry sectors, like hospitality and retail, to get an idea of the most pressing concerns for companies as well as provided business support guidance including Q&As and webinars. Make sure you attend our next one tomorrow, register here.

We welcome the launch of the grant application portal by Liverpool City Council earlier this week. Liverpool has a vibrant business community, yet our serious worry was the timescales for local authorities to pass these grants to businesses. We’ve been talking to Liverpool City Council, on behalf of business, to pass those concerns across and the need for clarity.

We are working hard to ensure BID Levy Payers and the wider businesses community get their voice heard during these unprecedented times, which is why we’ve been talking to both Liverpool City Council and national government. We’re not relaxing that pressure and we’ll keep asking questions and pushing for that support to come quickly.

We continue to work in partnership to make sure the city centre remain safe and operational for essential businesses, employees, customers and residents.

Looking at other ways to support businesses, we have teamed up Crowdfunder on the Pay it Forward campaign offering businesses a platform to gather funds from customers and supporters for services to be used at a later day, as well as secured free access to the social media platform, Maybe* to help businesses in the interim.

It still feels like we have a long way to go, and there isn’t a single business, whatever its size, that we’ve spoken to who isn’t affected in some way by this current crisis. Our advice is to focus on your own business in the best way you can, if you need help, advice, guidance or just someone to listen to your concerns, our digital door is always open. We’re here to help you weather this storm