Abbey Quarter BID 2019-24 objectives

Reading Abbey Quarter Commercial District aims to be a private sector-led vehicle with a goal to create a world-class business environment, establishing and sustaining Reading’s Abbey Quarter as a thriving business location, with a national profile of unique character and excellence in which to live and work that can:

• Achieve a positive return on your investment
• Attract enthusiastic qualified workers to the Abbey Quarter and maximise staff retention by building an attractive, healthy work environment
• Coordinate businesses as a powerful single voice to promote the improvement in both the Abbey Quarter’s public realm and the quality of its commercial, cultural and leisure provision
• Create a confident sense of place through an imaginative planned programme of events
• Increase the Commercial District’s desirability, attract inward investment and achieve regional competitive advantage
• Work with public sector partners to create and sustain a safe, clean and vibrant environment in which to live, work and visit
• Provide a mechanism for stakeholders to influence the formation and delivery of policies for the improvement of the Abbey Quarter

Our proposal is presented with propositions within the following work streams and programs:

• Cleaner and Greener
• Safer
• Branded
• Connected