Tenbury goes Virtual

The Tenbury Chamber of Trade have teamed up with Tenburyweb to produce a virtual town.

Skillsmart have awarded a small grant to the Chamber of Trade to promote the retailers of Tenbury. Part of the grant will be spent on a series of adverts promoting the Town's shops and businesses, and also on upgrading the Chamber website.

There will be links from the website to all businesses (including non members) existing websites. Any business without a website will be offered a simple one page website for general information.

Visitors to the website will be able to take a virtual stroll through the shopping streets to get a feel for the number and type of mostly independent shops that they will find on arrival.

Are 'shop-local' schemes enough

BBC Radio 4, Charlotte Smith visits Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire to look at what impact the downturn is having and how areas are fighting back. Are 'shop-local' schemes enough or do the NIMBYs have to accept that new housing may be the key to their town's survival?

Listen here

Shop Window Competition

Traveltrail won the Tenbury Chamber of Trade Christmas window competition with their interpretation of Joy to the World.

The winner of the Public Competition to Guess as many window themes as possible should be announced shortly.