The Circle Initiative was the first programme to pilot BIDs in the UK. Funded through £4.6 million of Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) from the London Development Agency (LDA), since 2001, it was led by Central London Partnership (CLP), with Westminster City Council as the accountable body.
The aim of the programme was to create five private sector-led partnerships, modelled on the BID concept and to establish if the BID model was appropriate in a variety of different local circumstances.
A key element of the programme was establishing a learning network to identify and share the lessons learnt in the programme to guide the development of future BIDs.
The programme finished at the end of March 2006, and in this final year a full evaluation of the project has been conducted, in line with the requirements of SRB funding.
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