A Safe and Welcoming Skipton
We know how important it is that visitors and residents feel safe and welcomed within our town centre.
It’s also key that Skipton town centre remains an attractive destination to visit, work and live.
As the town’s Business Improvement District, we have several initiatives in place to ensure our town is protected and we achieve this objective.
As the BID, we commit to:
- Continuing to fund the CCTV cameras around the town centre to ensure residents and visitors feel safe.
- Continuing to fund initiatives such as STAND (Stopping Trouble and Night-time Disorder) and introduce new measures to support businesses and help employees to feel safe at work.
- Funding deep cleans in the town centre to ensure residents can take pride in their place and visitors value our town.
- Improving way finding to ensure all businesses benefit from footfall, working with partners to develop innovative signage solutions.
- Support working towards improving and implementing accessibility and sustainability measures to ensure a secure future for businesses.
What have we delivered?
As we move further into our fourth term following a successful ballot in 2023, we have delivered a series of schemes to achieve our ‘Safe & Welcoming’ objective.
Some of these include:
- Fully funding the Schemelink app for Pubwatch and Shopwatch initiatives in Skipton to support both the day-time and night-time economies safety. Sign up now.
- Established a cross-border partnership with local police forces and other BIDs in West Yorkshire and Lancashire to tackle any crime related issues.
- Funding Street Marshals to ensure safety around the town centre at key times of the year.Â
- Continued support for North Yorkshire Police Operations and Days of Action within Skipton and the Craven area.
- Funding workshops on support with lone working, complaints handling, de-escalation, first aid, fire safety and more.
- Supported and facilitated Community Safety Group to improve safety and reduce anti-social behaviour in key locations.
Keep up to date
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