Shop locally for your chance to win a Buy Local Gift Card

MEDIA RELEASE 27 April 2020

To support local businesses and to encourage spending within the region, Council will run a competition where residents can win a $200 Buy Local Gift Card every week for ten weeks commencing 1 May.

The Buy Local campaign currently has 130 stores involved in the initiative and customers shopping at any of these businesses go in for a chance to win even if they don’t use a gift card. Customers will receive a unique identifying number when they make a purchase which they need to enter online at www.bathurstbusinesshub.com.au to go into the competition.

Mayor Bobby Bourke said this competition provides an opportunity to support economic prosperity and jobs growth within the Bathurst region.

“It will remind our community of the benefits of buying locally and will support our local retailers and businesses,” he said.

A winner will be drawn every Friday at 12.00pm from the previous week’s entries. Winners can collect their gift card from Council’s Civic Centre.

The Bathurst Buy Local program has been hugely successful since launching in 2015 and during this time has seen $530,096 loaded on to the gift cards.

For more information, a full list of participating stores, to get involved or details on where to purchase the gift cards, visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au or www.facebook.com/BathurstBusiness

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Media contact: Media Officer