Celebrate Small Business Saturday in Swadlincote
Head to Swadlincote this Saturday, 4 December as the town supports Small Business Saturday.
Councillor Malcolm Gee, South Derbyshire District Council’s Chair, said: “Christmas shopping locally is a great way to celebrate and support the small independent businesses in our town centre.
“Shopping locally keeps money in the local community, supports local businesses, is good for the environment and allows people to speak to shop owners and get advice – something you don’t get if you shop online.”
Visitors can vote for their favourite Christmas decorated shop window. Take a walk around the town centre to admire the windows and then vote online: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/christmas-window2021/
- High Street: David Wain Insurance Services, Hillfield Animal Home RSPCA Shop, Max Spielmann, Prince & Bates Opticians, Simply Needlecraft Haberdashery & Sewing Studio
- Midland Road: Baumgartners Jewellers, David Elks Opticians
- Market Street: Delph Dental Practice
- Church Street: HES Architects, Unique Hair Boutique
- West Street: Andrew Charles Hair Salon, People Express Arts, Sharpe’s Pottery Museum
- Bus Station: Swadlincote Library, The Dance & Music Centre
It is a great opportunity to explore The Snowman and The Snowdog sculpture trail. There are twelve sculptures of The Snowman sculptures from the popular Raymond Briggs book together with a further eight sculptures of The Snowdog. Pick up a trail map from Trail HQ on the Delph and follow the trail across the town centre.
Between 9am and 3pm, there will be entertainment for all ages including live music and the chance to fly though the air as The Snowman in a special Christmas simulator ride.
Swadlincote Town Hall will host a Christmas craft and gift market with lots of locally made products on offer including wooden toys and jigsaws, jewellery, candles, Christmas wreaths, handmade cards, books and more. The Craft and Gift Market will also be open on Sunday alongside a Santa’s Fun Walk raising funds for local causes – for further information go to www.swadstyle.co.uk/swad-santa-walk
For further info www.visitsouthderbyshire.co.uk or facebook.com/visitsouthderbyshire.
The Snowman and The Snowdog initiative and events are brought to Swadlincote by South Derbyshire District Council and Wild in Art and are supported by the Welcome Back Fund from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)/HM Government.
The Welcome Back Fund has been established to support and promote the safe and successful reopening of the public environment for local trade and tourism, including running publicity campaigns and assisting with events that will boost footfall and encourage people back into the high streets and thereby supporting local businesses.
The programme includes a series of projects, which will be part-funded up to the total value of the funding (£190,838), from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding
About The Snowman™
The Snowman was created and illustrated by Raymond Briggs as a picture book, narrated entirely through hand-drawn illustrations and was first published in 1978. Now one of the world’s most popular picture books, The Snowman has sold in excess of 5.5 million copies globally and has been translated into 21 languages. Adapted for screen by producer John Coates, the Oscar-nominated animation launched on Channel 4 in its inaugural year in 1982 and has been repeated every Christmas since. The sequel, The Snowman and The Snowdog premiered on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 2012 and was seen by over 10 million people over the festive period. The Snowman™ brand enjoys an international audience with publishing, global broadcast, live events and a successful consumer products programme all managed by Penguin Ventures (part of Penguin Random House Children’s).
About Wild in Art
Wild in Art is the leading producer of spectacular public art events that entertain, enrich, inform and leave a lasting legacy. It brings together businesses and creative sectors with schools and local communities through the creation of uniquely painted sculptures.
Since 2008 Wild in Art has animated cities across the world including Manchester, Sydney, Auckland, Cape Town and São Paulo, and created trails for the London 2012 Olympics, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Historic Royal Palaces and Penguin Random House.
wildinart.co.uk | @wildinart | #wildinart
About Penguin Ventures
Stories have always been at the heart of Penguin Random House. Penguin Ventures was created to bring together the Licensing, Consumer Products, TV Production, Retail, Exhibitions and Live events strategies and to find new ways to tell the world’s favourite stories. Penguin Ventures manages a portfolio of licensed literary brands and characters together with an archive of original art. For many years, those characters lived mainly in books, but now they are providing the magic and wonder for all kinds of different consumer products, media and experiences, going beyond the book to tell the complete story. Penguin Ventures is part of Penguin Random House Children’s UK.
2 December 2021