The Vacant Shops Academy

Oxfordshire web design and development specialists OXLink are helping boost business for one of Oxford’s most visible companies in one of the city’s key industry sectors.

They’ve just finished a major rebuild of the Guide Friday City Sightseeing Oxford website – www.citysightseeingoxford.com – including developing a new system that helps with ticketing by using the latest web technologies. Continue reading →

The number of shop units that are currently lying vacant in the Vale of White Horse district has reached a five year low. A snapshot survey, which is carried out on an annual basis in the Vale’s market towns, took place in September and revealed that Abingdon, Faringdon and Wantage are all well below the national average when it comes to the number of empty shops. Continue reading →

Wantage will soon have a town centre community space in a refurbished shop unit – and local groups are being invited to put forward ideas about how it could be used. Continue reading →

Wantage has played host to town centre specialists from across the region and beyond.

The national charity Action for Market Towns chose Wantage for the latest in its series of Town Team Initiative workshops, which focus on practical strategies for boosting small market towns. Continue reading →

Wantage’s pop up shop, Flashop, has re-opened with 12 more businesses set to make use of the space at 18A Mill Street Continue reading →

A new stamp card option is now available to shoppers with a Wantage & Grove Loyalty Card – http://www.wantageandgroveloyalty.co.uk/– as part of a focus on rewarding regular customers. Ten additional businesses have joined the scheme in the last month. Continue reading →

An Oxfordshire businesswoman is gearing up to celebrate a double business birthday, surrounded by teddies and other cuddly toys!

It’s a year since 29-year old Lianne Fisher (pictured) launched her personalised teddy business Ready Teddy Go online, and six years since she started the web-based gifts company www.allthingsgifts.co.uk Continue reading →

#flashop

An independent ladies shoe shop and a baby & children’s clothes, gifts and accessories specialist lead the way as Wantage’s pop up shop, Flashop, opens for business. Helena Wohlfahrt’s, Valentina’s Shoe Box, and Janette Reed’s, Cotswold Kids, will make first use of the pop up shop in Unit 18A on Mill Street, Wantage. Continue reading →

A scaffolding firm and a tennis coaching enterprise have been named as winners of the Southern Oxfordshire New Business Competition from a field described as the strongest since it started. They were chosen as winners from 24 entries to the competition, which is for businesses in southern Oxfordshire within their first two years of trading. Continue reading →

Two Oxfordshire Special Schools and Abingdon and Witney College have announced the establishment of a multi academy trust that will be the first of its kind in the country. The Propeller Academy Trust will build on an established working relationship between the College and Kingfisher School in Abingdon and Fitzwaryn School in Wantage.