Good luck to the new Sevenoaks Loyalty Card announced today to help Keep Trade Local. This initiative is from the membership and board of the Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce together with the Sevenoaks Chronicle. Find out more in next weeks Sevenoaks Chronicle edition. The Sevenoaks Chronicle and Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch the Sevenoaks Loyalty Card. Its aim is to encourage shoppers to spend their money in the town. Shoppers can have their card stamped every time they spend £10 in a participating store. When all six boxes have been filled, they drop it in to the Chronicle office for a monthly prize draw. One winner will get £50 of vouchers to spend at participating stores. If enough traders take part, a bumper Christmas draw (say £250) could be held. The scheme is non profit-making, run by volunteers from the Chronicle and Chamber of Commerce. It will be backed 100 per cent by the Chronicle, with participating traders listed each month, and one trader pictured each month, with the winner of the prize draw. The card will be launched in the paper on February 24 and the first prize draw at the start of April. Hopefully, the new scheme will be favoured by both the Sevenoaks town traders and the shopping public to boost the town. Please give it your support.
Big thanks to Roger Kasper, Chronicle editor who has been drumming up support around town. According to this weeks edition, so far: If you are out shopping in the town, ask your favourite store if it is going to be taking part? Traders who have not yet been contacted by the Chronicle, should call 01732 228000 to sign up. Update from Roger Kasper: the Sevenoaks Loyalty Card now includes the following traders: More info @ www.SevenoaksLoyaltyCard.co.uk
40 shops signed up for next week's big launch. Life begins for the Sevenoaks Loyalty Card next week – with an incredible 40 shops signed up. Stores, cafe bars, jewellers, opticians and computer specialists are among the members of the new scheme. The Chronicle launched it two weeks ago and interest has snowballed. said editor Roger Kasper. Shoppers are also buzzing with excitement at the scheme, with many asking their shopkeepers for cards before they have even arrived. They are due in shops on Thursday. The latest traders to join are Michael Whitcomb jewellers, Sevenoaks Pets and Aquatics, 7oaks Photography, Acorn Osteopaths, Heritage Window Company, The Find, Especially Health, Pressed for Time and The Lodge Coffee Shop at the Stag and Hollybush Lane. Read more in Sevenoaks Chronicle
From http://twitter.com/7OaksChronicle : The Sevenoaks Loyalty Card launches today. Help us get the Town buzzing with shoppers. Get stamping! www.sevenoaksloyaltycard.co.uk
The first winner of the Sevenoaks Loyalty Card has been revealed. Doug Fox, of High Street, Farningham, won £50 worth of vouchers for participating shops in the prize draw on Monday, April 4. In addition, he also received an executive trip to Gatwick airport from the Sevenoaks Airport Transfer Service, worth £50, and a bumper bouquet of sweets from Riverhead confectioner Bag of Sweets. Spree After a last-minute weekend spending spree, at the weekend, The Chronicle can reveal 388 cards were collected in total, meaning £23,280 has been spent gathering stamps since the scheme was launched on March 11. The draw took place in The Shambles, with Sevenoaks mayor Simon Raikes drawing the winning card out of the tombola, donated for the occasion by the Weald Memorial Hall committee. He praised the Chronicle’s innovation in setting up the scheme along with the District Chamber of Commerce, adding: Collection points for the cards are set up at the Chronicle office, Especially Health and Fingz – all in the High Street – as well as Rafferty’s in Holly Bush Lane and London Road shops Patmores and Sargeant’s. Valerie Glencross, co-owner of the Sevenoaks Bookshop, was present at the draw. She said: Chronicle editor Roger Kasper said: Loyalty card holders are reminded to fill out their cards fully before dropping them in, as the Chronicle received several blank cards. Daytime phone numbers and postcodes are needed to contact our winners. Fully-stamped cards submitted for this month’s draw will roll over into the May draw.
