HELENSBURGH’S MP is calling on small shopkeepers in the area to enter the Best Small Shops Competition, celebrating the creativity of small shops and the central role they play in their local community.
Argyll and Bute has an incredibly high number of independent, family-run and bespoke retailers, many of which are central to their communities.
Brendan O’Hara said: “Argyll and Bute has an amazing array of small shops which help support our rural economy and I would love to see them recognised.”
The free Best Small Shops competition is open to any small shop operating in the UK.
Shopkeepers can nominate their businesses until Sunday, September 9 via www.bestsmallshops.co.uk.
A shortlist of 25 of the most impressive applications will be shortlisted by a panel made up of established representatives from the independent retail industry.
The judges will be looking for evidence of a small shops’ entrepreneurial spirit, ways that they have been innovative in their business and what they have done to have a lasting positive impact on their community.
The shortlisted small shops will be invited to a parliamentary reception on Tuesday, November 13 to meet their MP and find out the overall winner.
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