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Sept 2022
Harrogate BID manager to leave role
Harrogate Business Improvement District manager Matthew Chapman will leave the organisation in November to take up a new position at North Yorkshire Council.
Mr Chapman, who took up the role in May last year, was previously Leeds BID operations manager in 2016 before becoming Huddersfield’s BID manager in November 2019.
Businesses within Harrogate’s town centre pay the BID 1.5% of their rateable value a year on top of their usual business rates.
Harrogate BID brings in around £500,000 from local firms, which it spends on projects to improve the town and increase the number of visitors.
During Mr Chapman's 18 months in Harrogate, BID campaigns include power washing 80,000 square metres of the town centre, painting drab walls with colourful murals and buying over 500 pieces of outdoor furniture for businesses to use.
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He is set to take up a managerial role within North Yorkshire Council, which is the new council that will replace Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council from April.
Harrogate BID chair Sara Ferguson paid tribute to Mr Chapman in a statement and said the search for his replacement had begun.
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