A collaborative effort to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for residents, businesses, and visitors has been launched in Morecambe. The Safe Morecambe initiative brings together Morecambe Police, Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID), Lancaster City Council, Morecambe Town Council, and other key stakeholders. This group, aimed at making Morecambe "Eden Ready" within two years, will focus [...]
Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID) , with large thanks to United Utilities and other partners, have installed five Audionetic Playnetic devices on the Morecambe Promenade. The AudioNetic is a wildly usable piece of playground equipment. The interactive and fun experience starts by pumping the foot pedal a few times. Once it’s charged with Human Powered Energy, [...]
Earlier this year Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID) asked primary school students in the District to get their artistic heads on, grab their pencils and paintbrushes, and come up with designs for this years’ Morecambe calendar. The kids were asked to draw or paint their favourite Morecambe scene – and we weren’t disappointed. Prizes We received [...]
Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID), with the help of some enthusiastic volunteers, has painted all the planters on the promenade and Victoria St in eco-friendly stain kindly donated by Lakeland Paints from Middleton Business Park. The planters have been on the promenade for four years now and have benefitted from the addition of bike racks last [...]
Time and Tide – Video for North Lancashire. The two local Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Lancaster and Morecambe, have collaborated with Dave Guest (ex-BBC North West reporter) to produce a short, promotional video for Lancaster and Morecambe titled Time and Tide. The video extols the virtue of spending time in both Lancaster and Morecambe and highlights [...]
Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID) has installed 10 unique wooden benches, on the BID planters, down the business-side of the promenade and on Victoria Street in Morecambe. Each bench is made from sustainably-harvested timber and is left with a waney-edge (live edge) on the outward-facing side. The benches all have a unique story engraved into them [...]
Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID) and Lancaster and Morecambe College (LMC) are collaborating with Dave Guest (ex-BBC North West reporter) to produce a series of videos aimed at different industry sectors in the local area to highlight issues around employability and what benefits working in these industries offer. In the first video ‘Hospitality Matters’ Dave interviews [...]
From Wednesday 22nd December people may notice a change when driving or walking down the promenade in Morecambe. For the next few weeks Morecambe will be lit up with extra seasonal lighting including 24 new programmable Christmas cones, lighting of the buildings of significance, and some public realm features. This is all part of the 2021 [...]
Licensed security officers will be helping to patrol Morecambe’s streets on the run-up to Christmas in a bid to improve safety and provide support to late night revellers.Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID), supported by funding from the Lancaster District Community Safety Partnership, are working with ICU security to provide the safety patrols. Operating out of a [...]
Gully has been immortalised in a limited-edition, high-quality 'Gully of Morecambe' hand puppet, complete with a little red bandana. Available for just £10 from the places listed below Gully makes a perfect present for Christmas (sorry for the early mention), birthdays, and visitors. All proceeds go to local charities. Gully is available from the following outlets: [...]
