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About Paisley First

Paisley First is here to encourage all businesses, residents, and visitors to “Think Paisley First”.

As a business-led collaboration initiative, Paisley First is here to work, for and on behalf of, Paisley businesses to help create a better business environment, a more attractive town centre for residents and visitors, and safe place to work and live.

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The Paisley First Business Improvement District is a non-profit organisation comprised of more than 600 businesses from within Paisley town centre. A business led collaboration made up of commercial tenants and property owners, investing their hard earned cash in promoting business development and improving an area’s quality of life. Businesses within a defined area work together and invest collectively in priority issues they themselves have identified and agreed upon. There is a range of issues that BIDs across the world seek to address, from reducing business costs, making town centres safer and cleaner to implementing proactive marketing and promotional campaigns allied to events, which create new platforms for economic growth.

Paisley First is the non-profit organisation set up to deliver a BID (Business Improvement District) in Paisley Town Centre in an effort to revitalise the town centre and strengthen the town’s business environment. Paisley First works for and on behalf of Paisley businesses to help create a better business environment, a more attractive town centre for residents and visitors and a safe place to work and live. Paisley First comprises of more than 600 businesses from within Paisley town centre made up of commercial tenants and property owners, investing their hard earned cash in promoting business development and improving the town centre. Paisley First offers a range of business projects for local businesses as well as public events for visitors such as Pride of Paisley, WinterFest, The Nutcracker Trail and Jurassic Bricks.

 

Graffiti: 0300 300 0300
Refuse Collection:0300 300 0380
Invest in Renfrewshire: 0300 300 1180
Business Gateway: 0141 585 6353
Town Centre Grants: 0141 618 7857
Police Station: 0141 532 5900
Paisley Shop Mobility: 0141 889 0441
Crime Stoppers: 0800 555 111
Planning Applications: 0300 300 0202
Business Rates: 0300 300 0202
Chamber of Commerce: 0141 847 5450

Paisley First AGM

The Paisley First Annual General Meeting took place on Monday 18th September 2023 at the Wynd Centre.
The AGM always provides an opportunity for BID Members to offer feedback on previous and existing projects, find out what we have planned for the remainder of the year and provides a platform for local businesses to put forward their suggestions on how we can improve Paisley Town Centre for both our BID Members and visitors.
We are grateful to those local businesses and organisations who took the time out of their busy schedules to attend. 
Presented at the AGM were the annual  accounts of Paisley First for the year ended 31st March 2023, available to view HERE, as well as the Chair’s Report for year ending March 2023, also available to view HERE.
BID Manager Natalie McShane also gave those present a look ahead to our projects planned for the remainder of this year as well as early 2024.
A minute of the AGM can be found HERE. 
The Paisley First office is situated at 1 County Place, just across from the main entrance to Paisley Gilmour Street Train Station. 
We are open 9 am to 5 pm Mondays to Fridays and members are welcome to pop in any time to discuss any queries you may have.
Alternatively, please contact the team at ask@paisleyfirst.com or call 0141 237 8120.

BID Members Update September 2022​

As part of our Renewal Ballot in the autumn of 2019, Paisley First published its Business Plan for 2020-2025.
However, as in every aspect of our lives, COVID-19 has had a considerable impact on how we work and has changed our plans for the future.
We appreciate that COVID-19 may have also changed your priorities therefore we issued a BID Members Survey at the beginning of the summer to learn more about what you would like to see Paisley First deliver on your behalf for the remainder of Term Two.
You can learn more about the results of our BID Members’ Survey by reading our BID Members Update HERE.

Meet The Team

Our Staff

Natalie

BID Manager

Maxine

Projects Officer

Fiona

Projects Officer

The Board

Our Directors

Paisley First Business Improvement District is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprising of business owners located within the BID area. The Board also includes local council officials and non-voting members.

 

Elaine Templeton

Chair Taste Buds Paisley

Alasdair Morrison

Renfrewshire Council

Caroline Sweeney

Restoration & Creation

Declan Fallon

Kenneth Edwards Hair Salon

Ronnie Girvan

Vice Chair Nationwide Building Society

Richard Ford

Reith Lambert

Ian Henderson

Henderson Properties Ltd

Helena Brown

The Print Centre

Advisors To The Board

Matt Hillin

Tom Johnston