Skipton BID Newsletter – January 2026
Welcome to the first Skipton BID Newsletter of 2026!
Conflict Management and Lone Working
Build confidence, improve personal safety and learn practical strategies for managing challenging situations at this upcoming workshop”
This engaging 3-hour course, delivered by Heald Training, is designed to help individuals and teams to work more safely.
It will cover making strong first impressions, understanding body language, behaviour control, situational awareness and much more.
The workshop will be held at the Skipton BID Office from 9.30am – 12.30pm on Tuesday, January 27th and is open to BID Members ONLY.
Empowering Women & Personal Safety
This practical confidence-building course is designed for women and focuses on real-world personal safety and self-defence skills!
Run by Heald Training, the workshop will use leverage, technique and timing, making it accessible and effective for women of all ages and fitness levels.
The session will cover personal safety, legal self defence, managing fear and stress, building confidence and much more.
The course will be held straight after the Conflict Management workshop for BID MEMBERS ONLY at the Skipton BID Office from 1.15-4.15pm on Tuesday, January 27th.
Skipton’s future is being shaped – and your voice matters!
North Yorkshire Council is developing a Town Investment Plan to guide regeneration and investment in the town.
Residents, businesses, and visitors are invited to complete a short survey to share their views.
The survey is open until Friday, 20 March 2026 with a drop-in session taking place on Thursday, 26 February 2026, 3:00pm to 7:00pm, Skipton Library.
Following the announcement of Mayor power to introduce Visitor Levy’s across the country, along with the launch of a consultation both nationally and locally, David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, has set a date to visit us in Skipton.
Mayor Skaith would like to meet with the Skipton business community to discuss any concerns and receive important feedback from those organisations that a potential levy may impact.
It is free to attend, but please register your attendance via the following Eventbrite link below if you’re planning on coming along.
As we move into the new year, we’re looking to work with our business community to gather the most up to date contact details for our members.
It’s important that we have the best contact details so your organisation can receive all communications from us.
If you could spare five minutes to complete the ‘Contact Information’ form on the link below, that would be a big help to us!
You should have also received a letter regarding updating your contact details with us.
You are invited to take part in Visit North Yorkshire’s first literature exchange event at Bolton Abbey Station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey steam railway on March 19th!
Display your leaflets on our provided table, reaching a diverse audience of accommodation providers, tourist information staff, volunteers, and hospitality business owners from the region.
Your participation also includes the opportunity to take a ride on a steam train and an interview on Your Skipton radio, who will be broadcasting live from the event.
We’re absolutely delighted to share that our Nutcracker Trail was a great success over Christmas!
Data from the trail shows that around 800 people completed the trail, with visitors travelling from almost 60 different areas of the UK including Edinburgh, Dartford, Peterborough and the Lake District.
A huge thank you to all of the local businesses that hosted a Nutcracker – we’ve received some lovely feedback on the positive impact the trail had.
HUQ update from December 2025
Looking at figures from our data partners at HUQ, we can see that the total footfall for December 2025 stood at 1,465,310 – with the highest daily recorded on December 17th at just over 75,000!
We can see that visitors travelled from 17 different locations, including Carlisle, Bolton, Barnsley and Goole.
Meanwhile, the busiest day of the week was shown to be a Tuesday in December with visitors spending an average of 4 hours and 16 minutes in the town centre on this day across the month.
If you would like to see any specific data sets, please email us on info@skiptonbid.com
Winnie-the-Pooh Book Trail in Skipton
Copyright © The Trustees of The Pooh Properties, The Trustees of The Shepard Trust and HarperCollinsPublishers Limited
Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends have wandered too far from the Hundred Acre Wood and have got list in Skipton! Can you help to find them?!
Keep your eyes peeled for Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and friends around Skipton between February 13th and March 5th…
As the BID, we’re pleased to offer support to the trail, working with local businesses to encourage participation.
The trail will also offer a prize draw for completed entries…
We were delighted to work alongside media partner Your Skipton on a new scheme to shine a light on our brilliant businesses!
We visited 8 businesses across different industries in Skipton to interview their team on key subjects including eating healthy in the new year, keeping up your fitness and tips for booking your holidays.
A big thank you to all of the businesses that took part! The interviews will be released soon.
Tune in to Your Skipton Radio and check out their website to listen to the interviews…
For visitor information
please visit…
www.welcometoskipton.com
