Are you Loughborough’s Best Small Shop?

Jane Hunt MP is calling on Loughborough’s small shopkeepers to enter the Best Small Shops Competition, celebrating the successes of small shops and the central role they play in their local community, particularly in response to Covid-19.

The Best Small Shops Competition is open to any small shop operating in the UK. The competition is free to enter and all shops who enter will also be promoted to consumers through an online Indie Retail Directory.

Shopkeepers can nominate their businesses until Friday 11th September 2020 via www.bestsmallshops.co.uk. A shortlist will be announced in October with winners announced in November.

The judges will be looking for evidence of a small shops’ entrepreneurial spirit, ways that they have been innovative in their business and what they have done to have a lasting positive impact on their community. 

The shortlisted small shops will then be in with the chance to win one of five awards, including the newly launched award for small shops response to Covid-19.

Commenting on the competition, Jane said:

“Throughout the pandemic, small shops have really stepped up to help our local communities. They have helped the vulnerable and continued to operate despite the difficult circumstances.

“Even before lockdown, many small shops were doing some amazing things locally. That is why I am encouraging entries for the Best Small Shop Competition.”

Submit your entry

The entries for 2020’s Best Small Shop competition are now open. Submit your entry at www.bestsmallshops.co.uk.

Entries close on Friday 11th September 2020.