Four key strategic themes

1. Sustainable Environment

As a valued partner in the delivery of the City of London Corporation’s Climate Action Strategy, the BID will drive an ambitious sustainability agenda in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals and play an integral part in making the City greener, cleaner, less polluting, and more resilient. It will partner with Transport for London, the GLA, landowners and other bodies to drive and realise ambitions, and invest in projects and programmes that find better ways to do business in more sustainable, climate resilient ways find out more…

2. Connected Business Community

The BID will help the area’s businesses to make new connections, provide a means to collectively address challenges to business growth and help to unlock the huge potential for innovation across the area. It will provide practical opportunities for people working in the area to collaborate and learn. It will champion diversity, inclusion, and social mobility while providing a bridge between commerce and culture find out more…

3. Inspiring Places

The BID will drive a high-quality placemaking programme to bring vibrancy to the streetscape and deliver a culture-led public realm – stimulating imaginations and supporting wellbeing and productivity. It will ensure that Culture Mile’s significance as an area is clear to the talent that does business here and to companies looking to relocate to and to invest in the area. The BID will take action to improve wayfinding, highlight the area’s remarkable heritage, and support its independent retail and hospitality offer to thrive find out more…

4. Cultural Destination

The BID will work within the City of London Corporation’s Destination City approach and with the area’s world-class cultural institutions to promote Culture Mile as a major UK destination for culture and leisure. It will support the area’s visitor base to increase and become more diverse by bringing great arts experiences to more people – so enriching people’s perceptions of the area, boosting the local economy and helping retail and hospitality businesses to thrive find out more…