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Local Businesses Invited to Sign Up for Loyalty Card Scheme

Business, Shopping & Retail

Gary Carter 

A loyalty card scheme launched in Hailsham in March to give customers a greater incentive to use town centre shops continues to expand its membership from local businesses.

The Hailsham Card scheme, which is funded by the Hailsham Forward town team and fully supported by Hailsham Town Council and the local Chamber of Commerce, offers exclusive discounts and offers to cardholders on independent retailers throughout the town centre.

Annual membership costs just £10 and cardholders can use the card to receive unlimited local discounts in all the local businesses that are part of the scheme (including any online businesses) together with any other towns across Sussex that are signed up to the scheme, including Eastbourne, Hastings and Bexhill.

There are no points to collect, no paperwork and no vouchers to print out. Members can benefit from a free app and website profiling each business and their discount.

Recent businesses which have shown their support and registered with the scheme include:

  • MsMatch (St Mary’s Walk)
  • Stitch n Sew (George Street)
  • Callenders Restaurant (High Street)
  • Pizza Bella (South Road)
  • Chapter 12 Wine Bar (High Street)
  • Bebble’s Langos (George Street)
  • Experience Holidays (Cortlandt, George Street)
  • Renaissance Originals (The Mews Shops, George Street)
  • Hotdogs Grooming (George Street)
  • Steggies Soft Play & Inflatables (High Street)
  • Fish Around (High Street)
  • John’s Fish Bar (High Street)
  • Sussex Beauty Therapy/The Beauty Retreat (High Street)
  • Olivia B (St Mary’s Walk)
  • Frame Works (High Street)
  • Definitions Hairdressing (Vicarage Field)
  • Antiques & Allsorts (High Street)
  • Furniture Now! (North Street)
  • Bea-utiful Design & Print (Golden Cross)
  • Stone Cross Garden Centre
  • 1066 Falconry
  • Cold Fusion Glass Arts & Gifts (Herstmonceux)

Hailsham Forward, which provided £1,000 for start-up costs and promotion of the scheme, is encouraging more local retailers to participate in and create revenue from the scheme.

Free benefits for businesses include:

  • Creation of revenue as the Hailsham Card is sold as the businesses own loyalty card
  • A microsite on the website and app with GPS maps, profile, offer, contact and opening times
  • Social media promotion (posts boosts on Facebook and Twitter)
  • Bespoke videos that are optimised to rank on Google
  • Direct email marketing to the membership

A ‘Buy Local’ solution which will be endorsed by Hailsham Forward will help create revenue for the businesses participating in the scheme through membership sales and new membership.

“It’s so important that people shop locally and we hope residents and visitors to the town will take advantage of the loyalty card scheme,” said Deputy Town Clerk and Business Enterprise Manager Mickey Caira.

“The loyalty card has proved popular in other participating towns and it would be good for both local businesses and shoppers to actively set up a similar scheme here in Hailsham.”

Gary Carter, proprietor of Steggies Soft Play & Inflatables located off Hailsham High Street which recently signed up to the scheme, commented: “We launched our business in January 2015 with the aim to provide a professional hire service of bouncy castles and soft play equipment within the East Sussex area.”

“The Hailsham Card is an affordable and effective loyalty scheme for local independent businesses, connecting us with our customers and I’m pleased to be part of the scheme. I would encourage other local retailers to sign up: start-up costs are low and implementation of the scheme is simple and hassle free.”

More information on the Hailsham Loyalty Card Scheme and details about registering can be found at www.towncitycards.com/hailsham/.

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Enquiries relating to this media release

Terry Hall, Communications Officer
Hailsham Town Council, Market Street, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 2AE
Telephone: 01323 841702 | Email: terry.hall@hailsham-tc.gov.uk