Keep Trade Local

What image is conjured in your head when you think of a Compost Heap? This innovative Sussex based company manufactures a range of cards and gifts based on the lives of vegetables, fruits and flowers, all hand drawn by the artist George Ashton-Jones.

Booths supermarket has been awarded the ‘National Trust Fine Farm Produce Award’ for traditional beef.

A top garden designer has joined forces with Peter Rabbit to find the best local materials for a new garden at The World of Beatrix Potter™ Attraction in Bowness-on-Windermere. Richard Lucas wants the Peter Rabbit Naturally Better Garden to have an authentic Cumbrian feel, just like the gardens that can be seen in Beatrix Potter’s [...]

Scrambled  words and words in all directions are the challenges ahead as you try and find the many terms and expressions in our Credit Crunch wordsearch.   

With companies trying to squeeze the last drips of profit out of any sale, it is worth thinking of the costs of processing the payment. Unknown and almost transparent to many companies are the hidden costs of handling the cash, cheque or card from the customer, but they all have a real cost, that eats [...]