Who else is excited for Summer 2021? 🤩☀️ Watford BID in partnership with @watfordcouncil and @visitwatford are hard at work to ensure a safe reopening of our town centre 🌺 Our priority is that you enjoy our town centre whilst keeping you as safe as possible - watch this space for plenty of exciting announcements to come! 🎉 #SummerIsComing #StaySafe #Watford #OurTown #OurCommunity #ShopLocal #SupportWatford 
A peaceful Winter’s day in Watford ❄️🤩 #Winter #Watford #OurTown #OurCommunity #Peaceful #Sunset #SupportLocal #BID 
@wagamama_uk Watford have welcomed to their benches, the softest, smokiest, melt in your mouth new vegan sticky 'ribs' Made with grilled caramelized seitan + mushrooms Get your wagamama fix via click + collect and delivery in selected sites ❤️ #Wagamama #Vegan #Ribs #Dishy #SupportLocal #Watford 
Looking for a Valentines Gift? Look no further than our Watford Gift Card! watfordgiftcard.com 💝 Take the decision out of gift buying with the Watford Gift Card, allowing your Valentine to choose where to spend! 💖 #WatfordGiftCard #Valentines #GiftBuying #ValentinesDay #Love #SupportLocal #Watford 
Take a few minutes out of your day and show appreciation for a town centre business that you feel has gone above & beyond in the past challenging year 🟣 Visit watfordbid.co.uk for all the info! #ServiceExcellence #Awards #SEA2021 #VoteNow #Nominations #SupportLocal #Watford 
YES ✅ Watford's businesses have voted in favour of a second term for Watford Business Improvement District! 🥳 We are absolutely thrilled to bring you this announcement, it is truly brilliant news for our town centre as it means there will be a further five years of townscape enhancement, investment, promotions and above all support for our local businesses 🎉 Thank you to all our followers for their support over the years, the hard work will continue on making Watford a great place for residents, businesses, employees, and visitors 💛 Check out our full statement on watfordbid.co.uk 🤩 #FiveMoreYears #YES ✅ 
Looking back on five years of hard work to improve Watford town centre for all residents, businesses, visitors, and employees 🌺🎄🛍 #WatfordBIDrewind - it’s Day 28 and our Watford BID ballot is now closed for voting! Our businesses have had their say on whether Watford BID will continue until at least 2026 - the results will be announced tomorrow afternoon! 📢 Regardless of the outcome, it’s been an incredible adventure for our town, and our small team of staff have thoroughly enjoyed working to make our town centre a better place for all 💛 Thank you to all of our followers for their support over the years, we hope that tomorrow will be the start of a new chapter 🤞 #WatfordBIDrewind #Ballot #VoteYES #Watford 
🟣 Watford BID Service Excellence Awards 2021 🟣 Where do you feel has provided outstanding customer service? Which place has made you feel safest and well looked after? Is there a business which you know that has gone to incredible lengths to provide a high level service? 🤩 Show your support to your local business by nominating them for an award before Monday's deadline by emailing enquiries@watfordbid.co.uk with your nomination and reason for nominating them 💜 #ServiceExcellenceAwards #SEA #SEA2021 #Service #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #WatfordCommunity #Watford 
Awarding over £18,000 in business grants to help our businesses and improve the quality of the customer experience 💷 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 27 - in March 2018 we launched a small grant scheme for town centre businesses to improve equipment, shop fronts, signage, internal layouts and even online experiences 💈🛍 We hope to re-introduce more BID grant schemes in the future to help improve our businesses...just one day left for our businesses to #VoteYES in our ballot! ✅ #WatfordBIDrewind #GrantScheme #ShopFront #Businesses #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #Watford 
Watford flying the Union Jack flag to honour Captain Sir Tom Moore 🇬🇧 Rest in Peace, Tom 
Bringing you a week of special food & drink offers & promotions 🤩🍽 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 26 - we look back to Watford Food & Drink Week in 2017, 2018 and 2019 where we teamed up with your favourite eateries to offer you a week of discounted treats 🍕 With promotional set menus, drink offers, and a food sampling festival in intu Watford - it is a fantastic campaign to promote our town’s food & drink offering whilst also filling your tummy’s! 🍔 Anyone else fancy skipping cooking now? Check out where is open for takeaway on our website offers & events watfordbid.co.uk 🌮 #WatfordBIDrewind #Food #Drink #EatDrinkWatford #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #Promotions #Takeaway #Watford 
Give the gift of choice this Valentine's Day with our Watford Gift Card 💌 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 25 - last year we launched the Watford Gift Card which you can spend in over 30 outlets including M&S, Ernest Jones, Rock Up, Watford FC store, and Krispy Kreme 😍 Fast forward to today and it offers the perfect Valentines Gift, giving your loved one the choice to spend wherever they like! ❤️ Order your card for fast delivery without leaving your sofa at www.watfordgiftcard.com 🎁 #WatfordBIDrewind #WatfordGiftCard #Valentines #Gift #ValentinesDay #GiftIdeas #Watford 
Working with our business community to light up Christmas 🎄🎆 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 24 - we look back to our massive Christmas Lights switch-on event in 2019 featuring live entertainment, fireworks, special guests and of course our spectacular festive lights ❄️ A huge thank you to our businesses for making the event possible with their ever-present funding and support 💛 #WatfordBIDrewind #Christmas #Lights #SwitchOn #Fireworks #LiveEmtertainment #WatfordCommunity #Watford 
Who remembers our Watford Weekender campaigns?! 🛒 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 23 - we look back to our first ever Watford Weekender promotion in 2016 where we work alongside our businesses to offer a special weekend of discounts, offers, promotions and prizes for you all to benefit from! 🍽 It's one of our campaigns that we run to promote and support our business offering - we look forward to running more of these in the future 🎁 #WatfordBIDrewind #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #Offers #Discounts #Prizes #Promotions #Watford 
It’s such a challenging time for our night time economy, we mustn’t forget what a brilliant location our town is for an evening out! 🍽 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 22 - this picture from 2017 celebrates another Purple Flag Award renewal which recognises good management and a wide night time offering 🍻 We are proud to have helped achieve Purple Flag renewal every year since Watford BID began, it’s a testament to our wonderful entertainment venues, restaurants, pubs and bars! 🟣 One day we’ll get to visit our favourite venue once again but until then - stay home and stay safe, Watford! 💛 #WatfordBIDrewind #NightOut #PurpleFlag #OutstandingService #Evening #LateNight #Watford 
Some stunning shots of our town centre in the snow ❄️☃️ Thank you @alecramphotography for tagging us 📸 #Snow #SnowDay #Watford #Photography #Snowman #Setting 
We've supported our local businesses with over £15,000 of grants to ensure they have hand sanitiser, face masks, social distancing signage and protective screens 😷 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 21 - last year we introduced a COVID-19 business grant programme which directly supported our businesses, ensuring that all their employees and customers could feel safe ✅ It's such a challenging time for our local businesses and we cannot wait to see open doors once again, you can support them from the safety of your own home with our Service Excellence Awards - visit our website watfordbid.co.uk 🟣 #WatfordBIDrewind #HandsFaceSpace #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #StaySafe 💛 
Connecting our businesses and offering free training courses 🌐 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 20 - we look back to 2016 when we teamed up with @watfordcouncil and local skills providers to help our local businesses access over 250 free training courses for their employees to attend 📲💻 Fast forward to today and we are supporting Wenta with the free support they are offering our local businesses during such challenging times - www.watfordbusiness.com/recovery 🖱 #WatfordBIDrewind #BusinessSupport #Training #Local #Watford 
Keeping you safe in our town centre by contributing to our town’s CCTV ⌨️🖲 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 19 - over the past few years we have contributed to the running, maintenance and development of the town centre CCTV system and improvements to lighting, paving and welcome signage at car park entry points 🔐 #WatfordBIDrewind #SafetyFirst #OurTown #Watford 
Did you know about the role Watford BID has had in town centre developments? 🤔 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 18 - we look back to a very different looking Watford town centre in 2018 when we had a huge amount of improvement works done to our town centre! 🏗 What you may not know is that Watford BID was instrumental in how the high street looked and worked around the new intu extension 🌆 We brought together Herts County Council, Watford Borough Council, intu and the developers to ensure all town centre improvement works were completed in tandem 🌳 PLUS we worked hard behind the scenes to secure £4.8m of grant funding for improvements between Watford Junction and the town centre 🌇 We then showcased a time lapse of our town's incredible growth with the #WatchWatfordGrow hashtag - check it out and see how far we've come! 🤩 #WatfordBIDrewind #WatchWatfordGrow #OurTown #RiseUp #Improvements #Watford 
Coming soon ⏳ Watford BID Service Excellence Awards 2021! 🟣 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 17 - we reflect on our commemorative Service Excellence Awards which we have run for town centre businesses and employees every year since 2016 🎉 It’s a chance for us all to recognise the outstanding service provided by our local businesses! Stay tuned tomorrow to Watford Observer as we’ll be releasing the details for our online 2021 awards 🤩💜 #WatfordBIDrewind #ServiceExcellenceAwards #2021 #CustomerService #Watford 
Culture, colour, entertainment, talent, Watford town centre at its absolute finest🤩💃🤹♂️ #WatfordBIDrewind Day 16 - we reminisce about the incredible Imagine Watford festivals from 2016-2019 featuring absolutely stunning performances at the heart of our town centre 🎭🎨🎼 Watford BID are proud to be sponsors of such a mesmeric occasion over a Summer weekend, and we really wish to see scenes like this in Watford once again sooner rather than later 🙏 #WatfordBIDrewind #ImagineWatford #Festival #Talent #Showbiz #LiveActs #Performances #Watford 
Hands up if you were always the designated driver 🙋♂️ #WatfordBIDrewind Day 15 - we look back to the World Cup 2018 where we showed our love to all the designated drivers out there - our Watford venues offered free soft drinks on us! #CheersToThat 🥤 We hope our heroic designated drivers can enjoy a couple of drinks this weekend on their sofa! 🍻 #WatfordBIDrewind #Cheers #DesignatedDriver #ResponsibleDrinking #WorldCup #Watford #PurpleFlag 
Delivering regular, informative news to our businesses to keep them up to date with all things Watford! 🗞 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 14 - we look back to our very first Newsletter in July 2016 which was hand delivered by our team to every single business in our town centre 📫 It is so important to us that any business whether it be a retailer, restaurant, estate agent or leisure venue is kept up to date with our projects and campaigns to improve Watford town centre 📮 Fast forward to today, we now provide weekly e-updates to ensure our businesses have all the information possible to tackle the challenges of today 📧 #WatfordBIDrewind #News #Information #SupportLocal #Issue1 #Watford 
Our wonderful lamppost banners dedicated to famous local people & places! 🤩 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 13 - we look back to the introduction of these brilliant banner designs in 2019 featuring the likes of Anthony Joshua, Bradley Walsh, Graham Taylor and 9 iconic places of Watford! 🌳⚽️ Have a scroll through and admire the creativity of a talented local artist who put the designs together, before we installed them throughout our town centre to brighten up your visit 💛 #WatfordBIDrewind #AnthonyJoshua #BradleyWalsh #GrahamTaylor #ThePond #Shopping #VicarageRoad #WatfordColosseum #Nightlife #CassioburyPark #RockUp #PalaceTheatre #WatfordJunction 
Remember #HandsFaceSpace when visiting our town centre 👋😷⚠️ #WatfordBIDrewind Day 12 - we installed hand sanitiser units at key entry points to our town centre in Spring of 2020 - please make sure to make use of them as often as possible! We also provided hand sanitiser to many of our town centre businesses, so if you are shopping for your essentials make sure to make use of them in-store too #WatfordTogether 💛 #WatfordBIDrewind #StaySafe #ProtectTheNHS #HandsFaceSpace #WatfordCommunity #Watford #StrongerTogether 
Raising money for St Mary's Church restoration 💛 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 11 - we look back to 2017 when Watford Council installed commemorative Graham Taylor boards to dress up a recently vacated building next to the church The boards were given to us to auction off to fans, raising over £700 for the major refurbishment of the church #WatfordBIDrewind #StMarys #Restoration #Watford #OurTown #OurCommunity 
📸 Some of our favourite photos of Watford in bloom over the years 🤩🌺 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 10 we look back at our town’s stunning floral displays which have brightened up our town since 2016 🌸 Dozens of floral arrangements including hanging baskets, cubes, and three tiered planters are funded by our town centre businesses each Summer to brighten up your visit ☀️🌼 #WatfordBIDrewind #Flowers #Summer #FloralDisplays #WatfordInBloom #SupportLocal #Watford 
Throwback to November 2019 when we organised a ‘Make your own snow globe’ workshop for the little ones! ☃️ #WatfordBIDrewind Day 9 - getting you in that Winter spirit by admiring our talented little locals! The workshop provided family fun entertainment as part of our Winter in Watford campaign 🥶 #WatfordBIDrewind #WinterInWatford #Workshop #FamilyFun #SnowGlobe #Watford 
The ‘Watford Business Against Crime’ scheme - managed by Watford BID to reduce retail crime 🛍 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 8 we look back to 2017 when we took over the WBAC crime reduction scheme to support our police and retailers 🚨 Since 2017 the number of participating businesses has increased by almost 50%, with high crime detection rates for members 👮♂️ #WatfordBIDrewind #WBAC #SupportLocal #Watford 
Watford BID Ballot update 📨 A reminder to voting levy payers that if you haven’t received your ballot papers, we can get them sent out to your home address, contact us on enquiries@watfordbid.co.uk 🏠 Cookie will be voting ‘YES’ ✅ visit the website in our bio to find out why our businesses should do the same! 🐱 #VoteYES #Cookie #Ballot #Watford #OurTownOurFuture 
Over 7,500 competition entrants and dozens of prizes worth 1000’s of £‘s - thank you Visit Watford 😧👏 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 7 - we reflect on the amazing Christmas Calendar competition from our Visit Watford brand in 2019 and 2020 🎅❄️☃️ Working with our town’s businesses to gift you amazing prizes including hampers, fine dining, hotel stays, gym memberships, stunning clothing and so much more 🤩 #ChristmasCalendarCompetition #Festive #Giveaways #WinterInWatford #WatfordBIDrewind 
The launch and rise of @visitwatford 📈📲 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 6 we look back on our launch of the fantastic new brand in partnership with @watfordcouncil 🤩 In October 2019 we were in @intuwatford handing out free cupcakes, leaflets and got you to take selfies as we celebrated the launch of www.visitwatford.com 🥳🧁 Just 15 months later @VisitWatford has over 5,500 followers across all social media platforms keeping you up to date with local news, offers, events and stunning visuals of our wonderful town! 🌳 Give them a follow and subscribe to them via their website - there's so much still to come and plenty to be excited about! #WeWillSurpriseYou #WatfordBIDrewind #VisitWatford #Launch #Cupcakes #Watford 
Putting accessibility first by supporting Shopmobility Watford 💛🧡 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 5 we recognise the amazing work of Shopmobility, run by a team of volunteers from Church car park providing free mobility scooters to use in our town 👩🦼 Watford BID recognise that for Watford town centre to be welcoming it is so important that there is access for all, that's why we have provided a £5k grant to Shopmobility every year for the past five years! 😊 #WatfordBIDrewind #Accessibility #Shopmobility #Charity #SupportLocal #Watford 
One of Watford BID's most spectacular inputs to our town centre: Watford's Festive Lights 🎄 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 4 - This week we’ll sadly say goodbye to the decorations, but we would like to say one last massive thank you to all our town centre businesses 👏 Without their funding it would not be possible to have such incredible displays in the last two years, they truly lit up Christmas 🤩 #WatfordBIDrewind #ChristmasLights #Festive #WinterInWatford #Winter #Christmas 
Watford’s Winter Banners ❄️🥶 #WatfordBIDrewind Day 3 - revisiting our Winter banners, designed locally and adding wonderful icy colours to our high street during the festive season in 2019 and 2020! 🤩 #WatfordBIDrewind #Flashback #Winter #WinterInWatford #VoteYES 
It’s FA Cup match day for @watfordfcofficial! ⚽️🐝 For Day 2 of our #WatfordBIDrewind we revisit May 2019 when Watford reached their first FA Cup final in over 30 years, so we painted the town yellow, red, and black! 🟡🔴⚫️ We encouraged all our town centre shops to get involved in the Watford FC spirit by decorating their shopfront in support of the hornets, with @warrenanthonyestateagents being crowned the winners of our competition! 🤩 It was a fantastic weekend with the town absolutely buzzing with pride and anticipation...we’ll ignore the result 😬 Best of luck to our local team who face a tricky tie away at Manchester United tonight, come on you ‘orns!! 💛❤️🖤 #WatfordBIDrewind #WatfordFC #facup #Hornets #GoldenBoys #Watford #Flashback 
Day 1️⃣ #WatfordBIDrewind ⏪ As we enter into ballot from 8th January - 4th February, each day we’ll be revisiting Watford BID’s campaigns and projects from our 5 years of operating 🖐 For Day 1️⃣ we’re rewinding to our Iconic Watford Gallery from February 2020 🤩 We displayed 9 sculptures in intu Watford replicating iconic places in Watford from Cassiobury Park to The Pond 🌳 We hope to bring you a family-fun town centre trail later in the year featuring all of these icons designed by local artists 🎨 #WatfordBIDrewind #WatfordBIDBallot #VoteYES #WatfordCommunity #Throwback #IconicWatford 
As we approach the end of 2020 we’d like to wish all of our followers a very happy new year!! 🥳 It’s been such a challenging year but we’re confident we can work together as a community for a prosperous 2021 💛 #WatfordTogether #WatfordCommunity #ShopLocal #SupportWatford 
We’ve compiled a handy guide to where is open in our town centre on our website, watfordbid.co.uk ❄️ Please remember to use hand sanitiser, wear a mask and stay a safe distance! #HandsFaceSpace 😷 
Watford BID would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!! 🎄 It's been a difficult year and Christmas will have a unique feel to it this year, but so long as we all respect the restrictions put in place to keep us all safe & healthy, we're sure that Christmas in 2021 will be back to its very best! ❄️☃️ Thank you to everyone who has supported our local businesses during such a challenging year, our town centre is the heart of the Watford community and so many local livelihoods are dependent on us shopping local, so the effort that has been made to support Watford businesses is hugely appreciated 💛 And a huge thank you to all Watford businesses that have worked together to keep town centre visitors safe, and have funded our spectacular Christmas lights display once again 🎄 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Watford! 🎅 #MerryChristmas #WatfordChristmas #SeasonsGreetings #Watford #ShopLocal 
Winter in Watford 🥶❄️ #WatfordChristmas #ChristmasLights #Festive #ShopLocal #SupportWatford #Watford 
Some stunning shots of our town centre on a Winter’s day! 🥶❄️ #WinterInWatford 
Some of our favourite festive photographs!! 📸❄️🎄 Send us your best photos to be included on our Christmas Lights album on Facebook! 🤩🎅🎁 #WatfordChristmas #Festive #ChristmasLights #SupportLocal #ShopLocal #Watford 
Watford’s iconic Christmas bauble!! ❄️🎄😍 #WatfordChristmas #WinterInWatford #ChristmasLights #Festive #Bauble 
Watford Gift Card: The Gift of Choice this Christmas 🛍🎁🍽🍾 Take the decision out of Christmas gift buying, our Watford Gift Card can be spent in a variety of retailers, eateries, bars, service providers and more! Not only will the gift receiver decide where to spend, but you’ll also be supporting local businesses It really is the gift of choice! Order your card online today 👇 www.watfordgiftcard.com #ShopLocal #WatfordGiftCard 🎅 
Build your own brunch with @watford_florist this Christmas! 🎅 Their delicious new menu allows you to put together your perfect brunch 😍🌸 What will you choose? Book yourself in > www.theflorist.uk.com #WatfordChristmas #SupportLocal 
Watford sunset 🤝 Watford Christmas Name a better duo... we’ll wait 🤩☀️❄️ #Sunset #WatfordChristmas #ChristmasLights #WinterInWatford #Christmas 
Looking for a COVID-safe outdoor activity to do this Christmas with the family? 🤔 ‘Help the ELF Service!’ is a trail-based adventure game in Watford town centre, find the tokens within the town, solve clues and puzzles to become a certified Elf! 🎅 All you need is your smart phone, and a small team of up to six people looking to complete the game! Under 7s go FREE 🤩 Find out more and book your place by following the link in our bio ❄️ #HelpTheELFService #ChristmasLights #WatfordChristmas 
Please support your local town this Christmas, we are all one family 💛 #WatfordChristmas #ShopLocal #ChristmasLights #WinterInWatford #WatfordFamily