The Scotland Loves Local Gift Card is available to buy now.
The Scotland Loves Local Gift Card is a gift to the entire community – treating someone to the fantastic products, services and experiences on offer in their area, and at the same time protecting local jobs and ensuring the community prospers.
You can also find out where to spend your Scotland Loves Local Gift Card on our regional directory.
Reward your staff with the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card
It’s easy to gift unbeatable local choice and say thank you to employees with the Scotland Loves Local Gift card.
Whether you’d like physical Gift Cards that can be handed out to your recipients or digital Gift Cards that can be sent straight to their email, we make support for local easy and efficient. New for 2024 – send digital Scotland Loves Local Gift Cards to multiple people using a simple upload of recipient names, on a date and time of your choice. Whether you choose digital e-cards or physical Gift Cards, show you care with a message from your organisation on the Gift Card holder or an individual message when they receive their digital e-card.
By participating in the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card, Scottish local authorities can help businesses in their region unlock a new level of local spending.
To confirm the participation of your local authority in this scheme, we ask you to sign the which gives the support of your local authority for:
- Use of the Gift Card in the local authority area – in so doing, promoting the sale, use and circulation of gift cards in your local authority area.
- Promotion of registration and onboarding to the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card scheme amongst outlets, merchants and attractions in the local authority area.
- Working with our partners to launch the gift card in your local authority area. Our partners can provide support with communications activities, including provision of launch packs, drafting and distribution of news releases, and local photographer support.
- Provision of content for a landing page specific to your local authority area to encourage use of the Gift Card in your local authority area. The content required will be your local authority logo and any introductory content you wish to display on the landing page.
Further to your local authority signing the concordat, a member of our team will be in touch directly with you to discuss arrangements for launching and implementing the Gift Card in your local authority area.
The objective of the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card is to keep spending local for longer, empowering gift card recipients to treat themselves to the best retail, hospitality and experiences on offer in their area. This is therefore a fantastic opportunity to promote your town, encouraging people to visit and spend in the area.
The registration process for businesses is quick and easy. We are asking for the support of BIDs in promoting registration to the gift card initiative amongst businesses in their BID via the registration platform.
Once a business has registered it means that gift card recipients will be able to spend their gift card in that business, and they will appear on the relevant map and listings.
To drive footfall and Scotland Loves Local Gift Card spend in your town, you can set up a bespoke town page on the Scotland Gifts Local platform where cards can be purchased from.
We will create a specific page on the Scotland Loves Local card website which will contain:
- Promotional copy
- Images to show off your town
- Interactive map and listings of participating businesses
To express your interest in creating a specific page for your town, contact Miconex at: [email protected]
What the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card means to us
