South Bank Employers' Group

Who we are

South Bank Employers’ Group (SBEG) is a non-profit association of 18 of the major organisations in South Bank, Waterloo and Blackfriars dedicated to improving and promoting the neighbourhood for the benefit of local employees, residents and visitors. Over the past 25 years, our organisation has helped transform a bleak and unwelcoming environment into an area that is home to over 30m visitors each year – widely acknowledged as one of the world’s finest examples of cultural and urban regeneration.

We are focused on physically improving the urban environment and the facilities available for residents and employees. We promote the area as a destination for leisure and business, encouraging visitors to contribute to its economic success. We support the community with an enormous range of initiatives, helping residents to contribute to the local agenda and to secure jobs.

Some of the projects we’re delivering for a better South Bank:

• Promoting, developing and delivering public realm improvements and neighbourhood management services, including our award-winning Clean Team and South Bank Patrol.
• Finding work and facilitating free local training for over 300 residents in Lambeth and Southwark each year through the Waterloo Job Shop
• Promoting South Bank as the Cultural Heart of London and a top destination for leisure tourism, increasing spend and dwell time with the aim to maintain and grow the 30million yearly visits to the area. This is achieved via the consumer brand South Bank London
• Promoting South Bank as the perfect venue for business tourism through South Bank Venues.  Day to day enquiries management, implementation of an agreed action plan and liaison with members are key to this role, see detail below.
• Ensuring residents have their say on local developments and projects through the South Bank Forum and community outreach
• Encouraging high quality development and capital schemes in the area via the South Bank Visitor Management Group and Our South Bank website

SBEG also manages the South Bank BID (Business Improvement District), which represents over 200 additional businesses in South Bank and helps support our street cleaning and graffiti removal services, and South Bank Patrol - a uniformed patrol service that deals with illegal trading, petty crime and antisocial behaviour.  The BID also provides a voice for local businesses, and runs various initiatives to reduce business costs for its members.