by Tracey Saunders | 11 Dec 2019 | Business Support
Independent town centre retailers are being offered
free social media training in a new initiative from Warwickshire Towns Network,
Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce and Warwickshire County
Council.
Over three workshops you can learn how to master
Instagram and Facebook, develop your experiential retail, tailor your digital
marketing plans and ultimately drive footfall to your business.
Stories Marketing will be delivering three Digital
Town workshops in Rugby. The first Instagram and Facebook starts
on 29 January. Followed by Experential Retail on 12th February and
The Digital Future on 25th March. All will be hosted at Oxygen
Graphics in Albert Street and the sessions run from 9.30am – 1pm.
Places are limited register your interest today at http://towncentres.eventbrite.com or call 024 7665
4321 (option 3) to book.
by Tracey Saunders | 11 Dec 2019 | Business Support
A new investment
fund to help finance capital investments for businesses in Warwickshire has
been launched. A total of £1.3M is available to local businesses who meet the
following criteria –
- be trading in Coventry or Warwickshire
- can demonstrate a minimum of two years profitable
trading
- produce a sound business plan/forecast that
demonstrates the need for a grant
- create jobs as a result of the investment.
The fund is delivered by FCA accredited lending specialists
Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust on behalf of Coventry City Council,
Warwickshire County Council and Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise
Partnership. For further information talk to Jon Bass at the Coventry &
Warwickshire Growth Hub on 0300 060 3747.
by Tracey Saunders | 11 Dec 2019 | Events
On Wednesday 15 January Rugby First will be welcoming Coventry & Warwickshire Champions networking group to the town for the first time.
Held
at the Collingwood Centre in Rugby School, this breakfast meeting will start at
7.30am and includes refreshments. A high quality line up of three business speakers
for the event will be announced shortly and tickets are available via
Eventbrite.
by Tracey Saunders | 11 Dec 2019 | Events
Do
you run a food and drink business in Rugby town centre? Then come along to our
briefing and find out about our exciting
plans to help market the town’s food and drink offer.
Next
year we will be launching a new food and drink guide, a new Real Ale Trail and Rugby’s
first Restaurant Week. There will also be a series of changes to the Rugby Food
& Drink Festival and opportunities to run fringe events during the festival
and take part in the new ‘Talks & Tastings’ tent.
Taking
place from 5 – 6pm on Wednesday 22 January upstairs at Libertine Burger, these
new activities have been created to help market your business, give the night
time economy a boost and give visitors from the wider region reasons to come into
Rugby. All food and drink businesses will receive a separate invitation to this
business briefing shortly.
by Tracey Saunders | 11 Dec 2019 | Featured
- Yum Yum World announced that they plan to open a children’s entertainment centre, crѐche and vegetarian restaurant in the former Poundland building on Sheep Street.
- Experience hairdresser’s launched a new health and beauty service called Beauty Experience.
- Hays Travel opened in the former Thomas Cook outlet in Rugby Central.
- Millington Travel began refurbishing their new unit in the Swan Centre and are expected to open before Christmas.
- 2019 year to date footfall figures for the town centre are up 12% on last year.
