b'Save and supportFree cardboard collectionsBusiness representationOur free cardboard collecting scheme has beenHitchin BID represents over 600 businesses hugely successful. In the past year we haveand therefore sits on various public bodies collected cardboard for free from over 260to act as the collective voice. NHDC businesses and recycled over 160 tons. ThisParking Strategy, Churchgate and Market scheme has saved businesses around 48,000redevelopment, public realm improvement based on the average price of commercialscheme and Herts Highway progress meetings waste. Using our fully electric van and buggyare just some of the many groups that have the 4 Recycling Rangers work 5 days a weekHitchin BID representing the businesses on. delivering this initiative across the town centre.Over the past year we have ensured that we remain the collective business voice on Coffee grounds recycling scheme Covid-19 issues and ensure that the town is The coffee grounds recycling scheme whichgiven its fair share of support and funding. was launched in 2019 has been growing yearKeeping in touchon year. In the past 12 months the Recycling Rangers collected over 1000 bags of usedThere are many ways Hitchin BID has kept coffee grounds using the electric van andin touch with its 628 levy payers. Issuing buggy. This has resulted in an collective annualmonthly hand delivered newsletters, we have saving of around 4,000 to businesses.the day Rangers who are out in the town communicating with businesses 6 days a week, cardboard Rangers who visit over 260 businesses every week, night Rangers who visit the licenced premises every weekend and the Hitchin BID Manager, Tom Hardy, who communicates with businesses everyday by face to face visits, emails and phone calls. We have held business breakfasts every 6 weeks, issue monthly business newsletters, regular social 52,000 media posts and website updates to keep all businesses in the loop. 20,000kgworth of12,000 1.8%business savings H of used coffee grounds recycledOver 12,000 of1.8% vacancy rate H-Town Pounds sold (one of the lowest in the country)14 Hitchin BID Annual Report 2021/22'