Professional Development Day 2023

Thanks again to all of our presenters, as well as Nottingham BID for hosting us.

Alex Flint, Nottingham BID CEO

Alex joined Nottingham BID in November 2021 as Chief Executive Officer. Reporting to the Board of Directors, Alex is responsible for overseeing the running of Nottingham BID, including the operational stream of delivery and effective partnership working to achieve the BID’s strategic 2021-25 vision for the city: to build a more economically successful city and help make Nottingham the UK's lifestyle city of choice.

Richard Lane, Nottingham BID Business Crime Reduction Partnership

Business Crime Reduction Manager Richard Lane joined Nottingham BID in October 2022, his background is in Law Enforcement and his current focus is on developing strategic projects aimed to ensure Nottingham is a safe and vibrant city.

Sylvia Oates, Founder of Six Till Six

Sylvia is the MD of Six Till Six, a specialist consultancy that works with BIDs, local authorities, government organisations, businesses and other stakeholders to help create safer, more attractive and vibrant places for people to spend their leisure time. The company has written leisure and night time strategies, has undertaken specialist licensing, vulnerability management and other leisure/NTE projects and runs the national Best Bar None accreditation scheme. Sylvia was the CEO of Nottingham Leisure BID from 2009-2014, which had 260 levy payers, all with licences to sell alcohol and/or late night food. She has worked in night time economy management for over 13 years and the leisure/licensed sector for 24 years.

Sam Good, Our Colchester BID Manager

Sam has been the BID Manager's since Colchester's inception in 2018, as one of Britain's newest City's, Colchester is evolving it's place-making visions to suit the fast changing times faced across the country.

Andrew Napier, Nottingham BID Marketing & Communications Manager

Joined Nottingham BID in August 2022. Andrew’s experience includes PR, branding, blog and copy writing, graphic design, and strategic digital marketing.

Sophie Hainsworth & Henry Jinman, Loyalfree (Professional Development Day Sponsors)

Our event sponsors, Loyalfree have written a blog on the results of their business engagement research which can be seen here.

Sophie Hainsworth, Commercial Director at LoyalFree. On the High Streets Task Force, Sophie co-founded the LoyalFree app which now works with 40+ BIDs & Councils around the UK representing over 10,000 businesses.

Henry Jinman, Managing Director at LoyalFree. Helping BIDs, local authorities and place-makers increase footfall, dwell time and spend on our high streets.

Agenda

10:00am - Arrival, registration and coffee.

10:30am - Welcome from British BIDs Team.

Speakers:

• Alex Flint, Nottingham BID CEO - Nottingham BID's Green Healthy City strategic pillar, Supporting Nottingham in achieving the Cities carbon neutral action plan and creating a lifestyle City of choice.
• Richard Lane, Nottingham BID Business Crime Reduction Partnership - Best Bar None, national BCRP accreditation and crime reduction strategies.
• Sylvia Oates, Founder of Six Till Six - Supporting the leisure, hospitality and NTE sectors as a BID.
• Sam Good, Our Colchester BID Manager - How Colchester is evolving as Britain's newest City.
• Andrew Napier, Nottingham BID Marketing & Communications Manager - The place-making app and influencing partnerships to achieve a City Centre brand proposition.
• Sophie Hainsworth & Henry Jinman, Loyalfree - Business engagement: the good, the bad and the ugly!

Followed by a Q&A session.

1:00pm - Lunch

1:45pm - Nottingham City Centre Tour with Robin Hood.

3:00pm - Close