Posts under ‘Shops’

What customers think about Finchley’s shops

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 – [...]

Parking – the live rail of local politics

I’ve fought the temptation to write too much here about the issue of Parking – mainly because it is one of those issues that seems to polarise people. I’m trying to cover issues with a bit of balance here, but I can’t find anyone to publicly take one side of the argument (the pro-changes brief). [...]

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 [...]

North Finchley Business Forum – detailed research

Last week, I posted a write-up of the North Finchley Business Forum meeting at the Arts Depot. A survey of local businesses was circulated at that meeting, and I’ve now had an electronic copy of it passed on to me. You can download a copy of the report here (large-ish PDF file). It doesn’t contain [...]

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, [...]

Open Gaming Day – Saturday 29th October

I’ve had an email from Mike Berry of Leisure Games on Ballards Lane about an Open Gaming Day at the shop on Saturday 29th October. On the day, a couple of members of the Finchley Games Club spending the day at the shop playing games and encouraging customers to join in. There are several objectives: [...]

North Finchley Business Forum – a few points that came up

Last night, I was at the North Finchley Business Forum meeting, hosted jointly by Barnet Council and a company called North London Business. It was interesting, and (up to a point) very positive. It is the first in a series of meetings – the next one is pencilled in for late November (details to follow [...]

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 [...]

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