By Helen Marshall, CEO and Chair of Chichester BID
Did you know about the Chichester Gift Card?
Giving a Chichester Gift Card is such a simple and easy way to support local. Businesses who are part of the scheme say that having a local gift card encourages exploration of the city and has provided essential support for them and other local traders during the cost of living crisis.
Chichester Gift Card, provided by Chichester BID, has now reached an amazing milestone of £80,000 worth of gift cards sold – all money that must be spent in the city within a wide variety of the participating businesses.
This amazing initiative should no longer be the best kept secret in the city! The Chichester Gift Card was launched in 2018, and a digital version of the card in 2022. Over 170 businesses are part of the scheme, including national brands but also many independent businesses. Additionally, a successful spin off of the Gift Card, the Alive After Five Gift Card, was launched in 2023, purely for Chichester’s growing evening and nighttime economy.
The beauty of the gift card is that it supports a range of sectors across the city. It is fantastic to see recipients of the Gift Card enjoying some of the city’s best restaurants, shopping at some of our finest independent clothes shops and cafés or browsing local bookshops and frequenting our local beauty salons. We should also remember that local businesses employ local people and contribute to the vibrancy of our city, and we are pleased to be keeping even more money local through this initiative.
So, if you want to give a gift that offers ultimate local choice as well as a boost for the local economy, then you know to choose the Chichester Gift Card!