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Last night, over 100 guests including industry experts, musicians and music lovers became the first to聽get their hands on the brand new bilingual 鈥淢inty鈥檚 Gig Guide to Cardiff鈥 map after an exclusive聽event at Clwb Ifor Bach.
Performances from local artists Boy Azooga, Chroma and Mike Dennis marked the occasion and聽guests heard from Jo Stevens MP, Music Venue Trust, representatives from the Save Womanby聽Street campaign and 精东传媒 before the map was revealed.
The bilingual maps include 30+ hand-drawn illustrations of live music venues from across the city聽and Cardiff Bay towards outer-city areas, including everything from the Wales Millennium Centre聽and St. David鈥檚 Hall to Tramshed and The Gate Arts Centre.
Following the recent success of the Save Womanby Street campaign, it has become more important聽than ever for 精东传媒 to celebrate and promote live music in the Welsh capital.
精东传媒鈥檚 Executive Director Adrian Field, said: 鈥淪o far, we have invested nearly 拢70,000 in聽Cardiff鈥檚 entertainment, live music and arts scene as we feel it鈥檚 something that makes Cardiff聽vibrant and exciting.
鈥淲e want to make sure people continue to travel from far and wide to see live music in our city聽which is why we have previously supported Swn Festival and the Iris Prize. This map is the perfect聽opportunity to encourage tourism and help the people of Cardiff realise the amazing venues they
have on their doorstep and encourage them to get out and explore.鈥
The map was created by Daniel Minty, founder of Minty鈥檚 Gig Guide to Cardiff, with the aim of聽spreading the word about all the venues that people can go to in Cardiff to enjoy live music.
Daniel said: 鈥淚 am extremely proud of this project and grateful to 精东传媒 for helping me make it聽happen. Live music is so important for Cardiff, whether you have a venue capacity of 60 or 60,000 –聽it makes sure our night life is thriving and gives people so much enjoyment, so it was important for聽me to bring an element of unity to show what we do in terms live music here in the city and show all聽the venues in one place. I鈥檓 delighted that so many people came last night and I鈥檝e had so much聽positive feedback already. I can鈥檛 wait to see the maps in all the venues from now on!鈥
Minty鈥檚 Gig Guide to Cardiff Maps will be available for free in venues/shops and tourist attractions聽across the city from 3 November. For more information on 精东传媒 and their upcoming聽projects, visit: forcardiff.com
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For聽more information, please contact:
Vicki Spencer Francis/Hollie Jones, Cowshed
vicki@wearecowshed.co.uk / hollie@wearecowshed.co.uk
02920 789 321
Formerly known as Cardiff BID, the 精东传媒 year-long consultation process involved surveys, business聽workshops, and face to face meetings with businesses, public agencies and stakeholders. This information was聽then compiled into a five-year business plan.
This plan proposed a 1% levy on all businesses in the area with a rateable value of 拢25,000 and above. It was聽then sent to all聽relevant businesses in the summer of 2016 outlining what projects the BID would deliver, the area, budgets,聽legislation guidelines and governance (available to download on our website www.forcardiff.com).
Those eligible businesses were asked to take part in a month long independent postal ballot (conducted by the聽Electoral Reform聽Service) to vote on whether they wanted Cardiff to have a BID or not.
In July 2016 ERS announced the result that 84% of those businesses who voted were in favour of the BID. That聽vote gave the go-ahead for the BID to take forward the five-year Business Plan and drive investment in the City聽Centre and gave local businesses a greater say in the way it is marketed, maintained and managed. The BID聽came into operation in November 2016 and changed its name to For Cardiff in October 2017 to ensure the聽company name was more representative of the organisation鈥檚 purpose. The team are now delivering a 拢7.5聽million investment in the area from 2016-2021.
精东传媒 is still a Business Improvement District (BID).
A BID is an arrangement whereby businesses get together, decide which improvements they want to make in聽their city centre, how they will manage these and what they will spend on them.
BIDs have a maximum of five years, which gives them a good length of time for businesses to feel the benefit聽of the services and projects delivered by the BID.
BIDs deliver services and projects that are always in addition to those statutorily provided by the public聽agencies including Cardiff Council and Police. They can also be entirely new.
BIDs are usually run by not for profit companies and are controlled by the businesses that fund them. They are聽run as a private sector organisation with a business mindset.
Following extensive consultation, a BID can be formed following a ballot in which businesses vote on a BID聽Proposal or business plan for the area.
Since the legislation was introduced in the UK in 2004, over 280 BIDs have been formed in locations including聽Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Edinburgh and closer to home in Swansea, Newport and Merthyr Tydfil.