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York has had a Business Crime Partnership since 1997 which since October 2023 has been Safer York Business Partnership. The Business Crime Partnership is an independent organisation accredited under the Association of Business Crime Partnerships and made up of 180 local businesses across the City. It is self funding through its membership subscriptions which give members access to a radio scheme linked to North Yorkshire Police and an electronic information sharing system. It has been difficult to maintain consistent input from the business community to the running and governance of the partnership therefore a decision has been made to merge the partnership into the core business of York BID as part of the support to Purple Flag and the BID’s role in leading the strategic priority of ‘Keeping the City Centre Safe’ on behalf of the Statutory Community Safety Partnership for York, Safer York Partnership.

The funding accrued by the Business Crime Partnership has been held on their behalf within the City of York Council’s Community Safety budget as a separate third party fund.

The Executive Member will be asked to approve that support to the Business Crime Partnership will transfer to York BID which will be funded by the partnership. This will include the transfer to York BID of reserve funding currently held on behalf of the Business Crime Partnership by CYC.

This item has been moved from 12/6/25 to 1/7/25 to accommodate changes to the scheduling of Executive Member Decision Sessions for the new Municipal Year.