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Businesses Offered Free Crowdfunding To Keep Afloat
By Hugh Coakley Businesses and organisations are being offered the chance to “raise essential funds to ensure success when normality returns” by making advanced sales through crowdfunding, says Experience Guildford.…
Garden Centres Cautiously Re-Open After Tough Times In Lockdown
by Hugh Coakley Garden centres in Guildford were cautiously welcoming back customers after seven weeks of coronavirus lockdown. The government allowed garden centres to open again from Wednesday (May 13)…
Great News For Gardeners As All Four RHS Plant Centres Reopen
All plant centres at the four RHS Gardens will be open from today (May 13), with enforced social distancing measures and limited numbers of visitors. Safety measures include, but are…
How Can Our Town Centre Businesses Recover? Watch the Shop Front Debate
Feelings among local retailers “range from despair to hope” about their future and the future of Guildford town centre. But the High Street “will never look again as it did…
Shops Still Trading In Town Centre
By Hugh Coakley Despite the lockdown, there is a number of essential shops still trading in Guildford town centre with some surprises. Whereas a few weeks ago the town was…
Essential Grocery Boxes Now Available at The Cricketers on The Green in Pirbright
The team at The Cricketers on The Green in Pirbright wanted to do something positive to help their fantastic local community during these turbulent times. So they have developed non-profit…
Will The High Street Be A Virus Victim?
By Hugh Coakley The lockdown continues to astonish us with the breadth and depth of its reach, but as it does people are starting to discuss what will the town…
Effingham’s Plough, Another Pub With No Beer, and Not Much to Cheer
Chris Dick talks to George Gillett, owner of The Plough pub in Orestan Lane, Effingham, about the impact Covid-19 is having on business. On a quiet sunny afternoon (Friday, April…
Long, Compliant Queues At Supermarkets But Two-metre Rule Not Always Observed
There were long queues early outside Sainsbury’s in Burpham on Friday morning (April 3). It was mostly older people who were using the 8am to 9am time allotted for older…
Covid-19 Shutdown Inflicts A Bitter Harvest On Guildford’s Garden Nurseries
By Hugh Coakley Guildford’s Sandiacre Nursery is staring into an abyss. “The business consequences are terrifying,” the owner said, as local firms and thousands of others around the country add…
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