Just a quick additional post on the report that was circulated at the recent Business Forum event (next one is on Thursday). This table particularly stood out. For me, it highlights one of the many reasons that large chain stores are beating local high-street shops: I’ve only copied the very top of the table – [...]
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Community Safety & Cleanliness in Finchley
I’ve now had the minutes from the North Finchley Business Forum meeting the other week. You can download the whole thing here if you like (PDF file). A few aspects of it stood out and I’m planning to pull individual issues out as stand-alone posts if anyone wants to comment on them either here, or [...]
Social Media Surgeries – 1st one on the 8th November at 5.30pm
Thanks to Helen at Cafe Buzz, we can announce the first of our Social Media Surgeries on the 8th November (5.30pm – 7.30pm). Book your place now – before they all go. If you want to, you can register either as someone wanting help, or if you’re a bit of a social media expert yourself, [...]
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 [...]
