If you are a business owner / member of staff in Cockermouth, please can you complete the (very quick - it will take around 8 mins to complete) online business survey about Cockermouth:
A new chairman is treading a new path for Cockermouth & District Chamber of Trade.
Andrew Marshall owns Strolling4Shoes on Main Street and also lives in the town. His appointment was agreed at the Chamber’s AGM on Tuesday, January 29.
Andrew and his wife Sue moved to the Lake District in 1997 with their four sons. He had been working as an agent for shoe retailers covering the north of England and Scotland when he and Sue decided to open their own shops. Andrew is following a well-trodden path – his family has been in the shoe trade since 1904.
Cockermouth Chamber of Trade has teamed up with Andrew Marshall from Strolling 4 Shoes and Allerdale Borough Council to run an amazing free-to-enter Christmas competiton over the 2018 festive period. From 09:00 on 19 November 2018 entries will be accepted at participating businesses for members of the public to win an amazing prize-fund. A big thank you to all of those Cockermouth businesses that have contributed to the fund. The winner of the competiton will be drawn on 19 December by an independent adjudicator. Full terms and conditions are below.
Allerdale Borough Council is currently undertaking a business survey across all of the towns in the Borough. If you would like to participate, please can you complete and return the attached survey to myself or economic.growth@allerdale.gov.uk. Hard copies are available from Cockermouth Library. All responses will be treated confidentially with the information collected helping to inform future policy decisions and providing a useful baseline.
We're holding this years AGM at the Town hall on the 5th February at 6pm.
We are looking for people to help the chamber with support by volunteering for chair and treasurer and other positions. To help the chamber continue please let us know if you wish to stand.
The alternative will be the chamber hibernating for a time which would be a shame as we still have plenty to work at and a few new people to step up and take some leading ideas forward would be beneficial to all.
I am running an Artistic Network in West Cumbria and we are running some workshops as part of Cockermouth Live and we are looking for a few different locations. We wondered if you know of any traders who have an empty shop or have an upstairs room which they would be happy to allow us to use over a weekend as part of the C’mth Live festival and therefore attract more people into the shops?
Cockermouth businesses have been given a free pitch this weekend in one of the big marquees for the Taste Cumbria event which will give us collectively a fantastic opportunity to promote our individual businesses.
This is the current plan:
Below from Andrew re the Shop Local campaign for Christmas.
Please find the printable leaflet attached to print as posters
You can print it A3 , A4 ,A5
The shops etc can then print whichever size they want.
They can also use the A5 flyer as a download to Facebook Etc.
We have already tested it and it looks fantastic on Facebook so we need everyone to post it and then get everyone to like and share
Andrew
Next meeting is the AGM on the 29 January 2019 6pm at the Town Hall.
Anyone wanting to get involved and support the town please come along.
Thanks to a couple of people, we now have an active @CockermouthTown twitter account. This is a public facing (not business to business) account looking to promote whats on, the tour of Britain, events and what to see and do. Please follow, retweet and help grow this account for everyones benefit. https://twitter.com/cockermouthtown
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