Your local town centres and shopping areas offer a range of independent, specialist and high street businesses to help you make the most of Christmas this year.
To help create a special seasonal shopping experience, the Council is supporting local groups to raise funds for Christmas lights for their towns and shopping areas.
The full list of groups working hard to raise funds is:
Altrincham – Altrincham Unlimited (the Altrincham Business Improvement District company)
Ashton on Mersey – Friends of Ashton Village
Hale – Hale Business Association
Partington – Partington Parish Council
Sale – Sale Town Partnership
Sale Moor – We are Sale Moor
Stretford – M32
Timperley – Timperley Vision
Urmston – Urmston Partnership
Through the Give It For Trafford (GIFT) campaign, local people and businesses can make donations through the individual fundraising campaigns knowing that their money will be helping to support their local areas.
This is one fundraiser everyone can participate in.
Executive Member for Economic Growth, Environment and Infrastructure, Cllr John Reilly, said: “Good Christmas trading is vitally important for our local town centre businesses. Offering fantastic shopping and leisure opportunities across the Borough, it is no wonder that Trafford remains such a popular location during the festive season, supported by the fundraising campaigns of local groups. Each of our towns and local shopping areas offers its own unique experience and we want to see this popularity continue this year.”
Between now and 7th October 2016, donations to the individual community group’s fundraising efforts can be made via the links on www.traffordpartnership.org/
If you are interested in becoming a headline sponsor, please email: business@trafford.gov.uk or telephone 0161 912 4176.
Get in touch, and keep up to date with the Trafford GIFT Christmas campaign on Twitter with the hashtag #TraffordGIFT
