Category: Competition

What could a £5000 Innovation Voucher do for your business? If you have an idea for a new product, service or process, or need help carrying out research, product design or prototyping, SRC can help you. What is the voucher? £5K worth of technical expertise from SRC to support innovation activity and bring new knowledge […]

This Halloween many of the city centre businesses got into the spooky season with some spooktacular window displays! Newry BID organised its annual Halloween Window Dressing Competition among our BID members. The competition was very tough with many local businesses creating spooky scenes to attract customers into their premises. Newry BID had an independent judge […]

Newry BID with its partners and stakeholders has scooped a major all island award in the Bank of Ireland ‘Begin Together’ Awards. The awards recognise the spirit of enterprise and resilience in towns and cities right across the island of Ireland. Newry picked up the ‘City Award’, beating off stiff competition in the final from […]

The safari has been designed completely contactless so that players can only interact in small family groups whilst adhering to social distancing.

Vote for your favourite Independent Retailer There has never been a more important time to celebrate and acknowledge local, independent retailers than in 2020. Whilst most came to a standstill, retailers made a huge effort to keep us going throughout the crisis – from stepping up deliveries to assisting vulnerable members of the community and […]

COMPETITION TIME As we move towards reopening, the BID has decided to run a competition and we want to know your views as to how best we can make Newry ready and welcoming for you in the new norm. The winner will receive a £100 Voucher from a Newry BID member business of your choice. […]

Newry City centre was crowned Northern Irish Rising Star, at the Government-run Great British High Street Awards 2019, in partnership with Visa, in Edinburgh. Inspired by Newry BID, the city was commended for its innovative use of technology and creative initiatives and wins £5,000 for the local community. Last year a Newry BID delegation led […]

The excitement of Christmas is in the air, and some of Newry’s City Centre businesses have gone all out this festive season with some magical window displays! Newry BID decided to create some friendly competition and organise a Window Dressing Competition with their members. The competition was very tough with many local businesses creating magical […]

As part of Newry BIDs short-listing for Rising Star in the High Street of the Year awards we are delighted to offer BID members an opportunity to star in their own national TV advert via the Visa Copycat Competition for 2019 ! The Visa Christmas advert currently featuring on TV actually uses real businesses and […]