Posts under ‘Local businesses’

Cutting the cost of cutting carbon emissions in Finchley

Just a quick note to plug the Energise Barnet project. It’s a collaborative buying scheme that helps with the purchase of domestic solar panels and provides help with insulation. They’re currently bidding for some funding from the Pitch Pledge Party – one click from you on the website will help support their case – vote [...]

Meeting with the North Finchley Business Forum

On the Finchlinks local business forum LinkedIn page, there’s been a discussion about getting a meeting with the local town centre manager running for a while now. Richard Pell has been following this up and he has now received the invitation which is open to local businesses. Here it is: North Finchley Business Forum Monday, [...]

Raising funds for charities and helping local traders?

Following the first Finchlinks ‘Independents Day‘ back in July, we’ve had a press release from an initiative called ‘Peel2Save‘ – it has a few similarities to the Independents Day idea so I thought it’d be worth mentioning here. This project is based upon an idea that has been around in the US for a while. [...]

Independent’s Day – it’s here! Shop locally today!

Today’s the day to show your local independent shops that you care about them! There are lots of special offers from local independent traders here. You can get a discount on camping gear, Indian groceries, religious books, classic sweeties, office supplies or specialist games. You can get a free chocolate cookie or a discount on [...]

First offers from local shops for Independents Day

We’ve had a few initial offers from local traders who want to give you a better-than-normal deal on Independents Day (9th July – more details here). If you want to take up these offers, just turn up with a print-off of the Independents Day page that will (hopefully) have a fuller list of these offers. [...]

Know any shopkeepers in Finchley?

I spent an interesting few hours on Saturday talking to shopkeepers in North Finchley about the ‘Independents Day’ idea that was floated here a few days ago. There was a lot of positivity about the area and it’s prospects. In one or two cases, it was quite pointed: “When we open a shop here, we [...]

Furniture re-use in Friern Barnet

The Barnet Furniture Centre is well worth a look if you’re having a clear-out or shopping for new stuff for your home. I don’t know about you, but it’s a great alternative to the tip for me – in our street, I’ve noticed that there’s an increasing culture of people leaving furniture that they don’t [...]

Independents Day – a day in July to help Finchley shops

Here’s an idea for you: Finchley’s first Independent’s Day. This is a day (9th July) on which local people choose to buy something that they’d normally buy elsewhere – but this time to get it from a local shop. We’d like to see if anyone from a local shop is prepared to make an offer [...]

Local parking row: Is Finchley subsidising the Council Tax for the rest of Barnet?

Anyone who lives in a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) will be aware of the recent proposed hike in charges. Dino has a very well-executed bit of campaign material against this here and a well-developed campaign has emerged, hoping to take it’s case to Judicial Review if it can raise the funds to do so. A [...]

Finchlinks meeting – 8pm, 22nd April

We’ll be holding our next meeting this Thursday, 22 April @ Cafe Buzz, 783 High Road, North Finchley from 8-10pm Please come and pass this onto friends – it would be great to see as many people as possible… Agenda – 1. Farmer’s Market Update on situation and what needs to happen next – promotion etc [...]

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