Read Indie Bath

A new publication has launched in Bath highlighting the city’s array of independent businesses.

Indie Bath is an initiative from Bath BID (Business Improvement District) designed to make it easier for people to discover and support the city’s independent businesses. It features a company directory, latest news from independent businesses, fascinating facts about some of Bath’s world-leading organisations and more.

All independent businesses in Bath city centre were offered a free business listing in the publication, and 150 retailers, cafés, restaurants, pubs and bars, hotels, attractions, and professional services businesses are featured in the publication’s Indie A–Z.

Indie Bath is available to pick up from Bath & North East Somerset Council’s High Street Hub at 15 Cheap Street and from independent businesses around the city centre.

Two issues, a summer and a winter edition, will be produced each year.

Bath BID Chief Executive, Allison Herbert, said, “As Bath reopens and we welcome people back to the city, it is so important to support the city’s businesses. When we asked our Independents’ Collective how best we could help them, they told us that they wanted a physical guide to indies in the city to allow businesses to promote each other.

“We are delighted to be able to offer this and hope that people will use the publication as a tool to discover businesses they haven’t come across before and be reminded of old favourites.”

Ellie Leiper from The Grapes, Bath, said, “The presence of the Bath BID was a defining factor in our choice to start a business in Bath, as it provides so much support, creating a safe and welcoming city. Indie Bath is another way that the Bath BID is supporting local businesses, and we are so pleased to now have a comprehensive guide to independent businesses in the city that we can share with our customers.”

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