Eighty businesses sign up for 'magic tenner' scheme in Bridport
Find out how every £10 you spend magically turns into £50.
A new scheme that shows just how far your money can go when you spend it locally is being used by eighty businesses in Bridport.
The campaign, named the 'Magic Tenner', says that for every £10 you spend on your local high street it could generate up to £50 more as businesses spend amongst themselves.
It's founded by Totally Locally, a local business campaign group who want people to know how they can impact their towns by choosing where they spend money carefully.
Posters are going up in shop windows declaring how many other independent businesses our shops and services use to supply them or work with them.
It’s also a chance for businesses to find future suppliers or people they can work with.
Totally Locally Bridport's Antonia Squire said: ‘Our original plan was to feature six businesses over a period of ten weeks, fairly confident that sixty local businesses would see the value of the campaign, but with over eighty businesses now signed up we’re thrilled to increase the scope.
"The Totally Locally Bridport team of volunteers are busy collecting forms and logging the newly signed up businesses, photographer Pete Millson is visiting businesses to capture the faces of the people behind the scenes, as well as familiar faces in the high street shops.
"The TIC is hugely supportive as well and A Magic Tenner gallery will be going up in Bucky Doo Square that we’ll be able to add to throughout the campaign. Next on the agenda is a local shopping map so customers can follow some of those Magic Tenner trails.