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Dobbies’ Carlisle store gets into the festive spirit with a Christmas Shopping Night
Dobbies’ Carlisle store gets into the festive spirit with a Christmas Shopping Night Raising funds for national charity partner, Teenage Cancer Trust Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre, is inviting shoppers across Carlisle to join them for extended shopping hours to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust. Taking place from 5pm to 9pm on […]
Gift Guide
Gift Guide Cumbria is rife with independent businesses, each offering wonderfully unique products, perfect gifts for everyone. We always encourage our readers to support local business, this christmas we are urging you to do so. Our local high streets have suffered massively over the last few years and after all the lockdown online shopping […]
Conquer Trading Post is Conquering the High Street
Conquer Trading Post is Conquering the High Street It’s great to see small businesses grow and expand, and even better when it’s local retailers taking back the high-streets during these challenging times. One such business to take the plunge on the high-street is West Cumbrian company, Conquer Trading Post. In the Summer, Conquer Lake District […]
Cumbria Traders Market Gets Off To A Flying Start
Cumbria Traders Market Gets Off To A Flying Start – Whitehaven was positively buzzing as the first Cumbria Traders Market got underway in May. It really was fantastic to see so many people wander round the stalls, some buying, some browsing but all smiling. It felt like a lifetime since the last one and it […]
Carlisle Market Hall has it All
Carlisle Market Hall is a must-visit destination when visiting Carlisle. It is a real gem and an awesome asset to Carlisle where you can find almost everything you need and all under one roof. Keep an eye on your watch though as time can slip by easily with the sheer number and variety of stalls […]
Popular Carlisle Business Finalists In Family Business Of The Year Awards!
K&S McKenzie is a family businesses of over 50 years with two premises in the city. They started off this year with a bang having been shortlisted as finalists in the 2021 Family Business of the Year Awards. The awards are run by Family Business United, an organisation which prides itself on supporting and […]
50 Years of Excellence
Whitehaven’s independent jewellers, J. O Dixon, have been creating the sparkle that’s helped couples declare their love for 50 years. “My dad, John, set up the business in 1970,” explained current owner Helen Dixon. “He bought it to keep my Nanna, Ada, happy. At the time my family had fishing trawlers and ran a fishmonger, […]
More Reasons to Shop at Marion’s
More Reasons to Shop at Marion’s. If anything has come to light over the last year, it’s just how important local shops like Marion’s in Egremont are. They have always been the beating heart of our communities but recently many have found themselves at the centre of the community during these trying times as they […]
Out of The Blue, Wigton’s very own treasure trove.
Out Of The Blue, in Wigton, is an Aladdin’s Cave of gift ideas for every occasion. Alana Huntington opened the doors to her independent shop in 2017 and hasn’t looked back, she explained: “It’s like a tardis really, we don’t look that big from the outside but step inside and you’ll find all sorts. People […]
Reviving Fashion – How you can help your local fashion industry
How you can help your local fashion outlets. Covid-19 affects us all and it’s hardly surprising the global fashion industry also came to a grinding halt. But Alexandra Boardman, who runs Alexandra’s of Keswick, believes change is inevitable, positives can come from global trauma and as the world starts to wake up, your local retailer […]
