Rugby Christmas Cracker is a local charity which enables young people to run a variety of projects, including the Crackerteria café, and Cracker radio. This year the pop-up café offering a takeaway menu packed with savoury and sweet treats, like Mary’s homemade cakes, which can be ordered in advance and collected from their new home of Moriaty’s in Regent Street.
‘Rugby: My Town In Lockdown’ by local photographer Jamie Gray features images and testimonies of the town’s residents living under Covid-19 restrictions earlier this year. The book, which has so far raised more than £200 for Friends of St.Cross Hospital, is available at www.jamiegrayphotography.co.uk Hunt’s Bookshop and the Rugby Visitor Centre for £10. (Photo of Jamie Gray and Willy Goldschmidt is from the Rugby Observer)
If you would like to support your local independent retailers and businesses over the festive period, then have a look at the Support Rugby advent calendar. Oxygen Graphics has created the calendar and when you click the advent door each day, offers and discounts from local businesses will be revealed
Rugby First is delighted to welcome Clair Saxon as a new Rugby First Board Member. At a recent meeting Board meeting Clair’s nomination was proposed and seconded unanimously by the Board. As co-owner of zero waste store Rugby Unwrapped, Clair has been running a business in Rugby for just over a year and is looking forward to making a difference to improving the town centre’s prosperity and environment.
Rugby Borough Council is funding a new ShopAppy service to support shopkeepers impacted by the new lockdown restrictions. The scheme provides an online store-front for businesses who are unable to provide online shopping basket and payment services, allowing them to list items for collection or delivery during this crucial pre-Christmas shopping period. Retailers can register their interest by emailing info@shopappy.com.
The Small Business Saturday campaign will be featuring Rugby for the very first time on Thursday 12 November.
This is part of a month long marketing campaign, kicking off on 2nd November with daily ‘virtual visits’, meeting small businesses and communities in over thirty locations across the UK and beaming them out via their social channels in the run up to Small Business Saturday on 5 December.
Tour 2020 is supported by BT and will offer an ambitious, vibrant and intensive programme of locally targeted online advice, workshops and mentoring, including: