A neighbourhood of free spirits, creators, entrepreneurs, innovators & thinkers
Supporting local businesses, driving growth, building community.
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Hello and welcome to our website, where we will keep you up to date about the Digbeth Business Improvement District (BID).
A neighbourhood of free spirits, creators, entrepreneurs, innovators & thinkers who fall squarely outside the mainstream. You’ll find things in Digbeth that you won’t find anywhere else. Tanneries and blacksmiths may have given way to film production, gaming and creative agencies, but this is a place for industrious folk, and it has been for centuries. Individuality is celebrated here. With limitless potential – and its fearless inventive spirit is something worth celebrating.
Along with industry, it is a vibrant neighbourhood full of creative residents, businesses and quirky shops, bars and restaurants housed in such places as the Custard Factory, Fazeley Studios, Greenhouse, The Bond and The Arch.
Digbeth is one of the most distinctive parts of the city, with its proximity to the centre a huge plus. It has been named the 'Coolest Neighbourhood in Britain' by the Sunday Times.
At night, Digbeth comes alive with a host of independent bars, restaurants and leisure venues ready to keep residents, visitors and clients entertained. Many have captured Digbeth’s industrialist charm to create a cool urban feel to its venues. Digbeth is often bringing the city together with an events calendar that is packed full of festivals, exhibitions and markets that last throughout the year. (Source: Visit Digbeth & digbeth.com).
But like most places, it has its challenges, from balancing its unique heritage, DNA and charm and balancing that with the need to evolve and remain attractive. This entails both a need to have a strategic understanding with the requirement to manage day to day concerns of its many and varied inhabitants.
Consequently, a group of businesses have got together to see how Digbeth can be better managed and marketed. These individuals/ organisations are giving freely of their time to look at ways in which our place could be improved. They are looking at the introduction of a Business Improvement District (BID), a popular concept aimed at professionally managing a place with sufficient resources and organisation. As part of this they are now starting the work on engaging with the wider business community to see whether a BID would be right.
