Totally Locally Fiver Fest Comes To Huntly
By Experience Huntly on 10/03/2022
From 12 to 26 March, over 100 towns and thousands of businesses across the UK are joining together to bring customers very special £5 offers, to highlight the contribution to the economy that local shops and businesses bring. It is also an opportunity for those businesses to say “thank you” to their loyal customers who have supported them through the pandemic. Businesses in Huntly are signed up and ready to take part with a range of offers available.
Vivien Rae, Marketing Manager for Experience Huntly, has been coordinating the town’s efforts. She commented, “This is now the third Fiver Fest event Huntly has taken part in, and each time we have new businesses signing up to offer more great deals across the town. Our independent shops and businesses make Huntly special and unique. Community support for local businesses has been amazing during lockdown, but it is easy to slip back into old shopping habits now that things are returning to normal. So this is a little nudge to say ‘our local businesses are still here, still serving our community and they appreciate your support’.”
Fiver Fest is a free to join campaign, devised and run by Totally Locally, a grass roots high street organisation that has been helping businesses and high streets to help themselves since 2010 with incredible results.
Helen Kings, treasurer for Huntly Business Association, added, “If every adult in Huntly spent just £5 per week in their local independent shops and businesses, it would put money directly into our local economy, leading to more jobs, a better high street, a stronger economy and a nicer place to live. Fiver Fest shows that a small change in your spending habits can really make a difference to the businesses in our town. By diverting just £5 of our weekly spend to local independent businesses, we give them a fighting chance to thrive and to keep our high street alive. Fiver Fest makes that easy, and it’s fun!”
Totally Locally founder Chris Sands said “Over 100 towns from the North of Scotland to the South coast of England now take in Fiver Fest events on a regular basis. It’s a campaign that sees incredible offers from £5 massages, to £5 veg boxes, £5 walking tours, £5 lunch deals, £5 ghost story-telling, £5 axe-throwing session and even £5 Scottish dance lessons! Independent business owners are really inventive with their offers, and we encourage them to also promote nearby offers too. Fiver Fest is about everyone working together to promote their town and high street as a whole, instead of individually. If lots of shops have great offers on, a trip to the high street is really worthwhile.”