The Scottish Places Using Gift Cards to Support Businesses and Drive Recovery of Towns
Aberdeen, the Falkirk district, Kirkcaldy and rural Scotland are using local gift cards to support businesses and drive recovery as the latest Scottish places to introduce Town and City Gift Cards from Scottish fintech Miconex. The Aberdeen Gift Card...
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Melrose Businesses Champion Scotland Loves Local Campaign
Owners highlight need for communities to support each other as they urge everyone to ‘think local first’ to help response and recovery from Covid-19 Melrose is flying the flag for a campaign urging people to think local first to...
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Scotland’s High Street Heroes Honoured for Covid-19 Response
Scotland’s High Street Heroes have been honoured for the remarkable ways in which they have helped their communities during the coronavirus crisis. A convenience store which opened around the clock, a group which supplied hundreds of key workers with...
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Aberdeenshire Council Encourages North-East Residents to Shop Local
Aberdeenshire Council is throwing its weight behind the Scotland Loves Local campaign which encourages shoppers to think local first to support the economy in its recovery from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scotland Loves Local has been launched...
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£1 Million Scotland Loves Local Fund Announced
A new £1 million Scotland Loves Local Fund will provide grants of between £500 and £5,000 to hundreds of local projects that improve and promote local places and communities. The Scottish Government fund can include support for small scale...
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New Video: Small Business Owners in Scotland Explain How Spending Locally Benefits the Community
In a new campaign video, released October 2020, small business owners in Melrose and Alloa explain how money spent locally stays in the local economy and spreads benefit throughout the community. Watch here: The video is part of Scotland...
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Meet the businesses starring in the new Scotland Loves Local TV ad
A group of neighbouring businesses are fronting a major campaign urging shoppers across Scotland to think local first. A cafe boss, arts shop owner, barber and property professional, all based on Kempock Street in Gourock, are backing the Scotland...
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Most Scots shoppers put their local high streets first
More than half of Scots always support shops on their local high street, a new study has found. And there is growing recognition of the fact that people need to get behind their town centres if businesses in them...
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Andrew McRae, FSB Scotland: Scotland Loves Local
By Andrew McRae, FSB Scotland Policy Chair 2020 has been a year like no other, coronavirus has turned life as we know it on its head. This has been true for everyone including for small business owners and entrepreneurs...
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Sustrans: Walk, Wheel or Cycle to Support Your Local Economy and ‘Scotland Loves Local’
Blog by Ad Leeks, Communications Officer (Infrastructure), Sustrans Scotland It is well known to those who support Sustrans that we are committed to upholding our five key values: Including everyone; Having the courage to question; Getting things done, together; Always learning; and Acting local, thinking big. Of...
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