Mill Road Winter Fair 2010
Come and visit the Milly Card stall at the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 4th December 2010!
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Come and visit the Milly Card stall at the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 4th December 2010!
Dear Mill Road Supporter,
As you’ve probably seen, Cambridge recently topped the list of Britain’s clone towns. There are still areas of the city where independent shops survive, but they are under pressure. We’d like to get together to discuss ideas about how the Mill Road area can be promoted and improved for local residents, and to support and encourage independent traders.
At present the Grand Arcade and the Grafton Centre get most of the attention/money/support from the City Council and there is a real need to get the council to focus attention on the Mill Road area as well. There are things that the council could do which would make a great improvement.
We’ve been talking to some of the local traders to get their views but we want to get as many ideas and as much support as possible. We will be meeting with local councillors to talk about what the council can do to help the area, and we’d like to know what you think. We care about our area and together we can improve it.
A meeting has been arranged at Ross Street Community Centre [map] at 7.30pm on the 14th October. If you want to protect independent trading in Mill Road and the unique area and community that we have, please come along and give us your views and ideas. We’ll also be giving an update on what the Milly Card Scheme and the No Mill Road Tesco campaign have been up to over the past year.
We hope to see you on the 14th.
The Mill Road Society
No Mill Road Tesco Campaign Committee
Milly Card Scheme
Come to the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 5th December!
We’ll be there promoting the new Milly Card.
PS Check out the video from last year showing the projections onto the former Wilco site!
In advance of the launch of the new Milly card scheme for Mill Road at the Winter Fair on Saturday 5th December, please display the Milly window poster in support of the scheme! This can be downloaded from our website.
You will be able to join the scheme at our stall outside Hilary’s Greengrocers at the Mill Road Winter Fair. The fee is £2 which will entitle you to all sorts of discounts and offers from participating local traders. A plastic card will be sent through the post with your unique member number.
More details on the new Milly Card website coming soon from the Mill Road Society …
Click on the poster to create a printable version.
A message from the Mill Road Society …
Dear supporter,
As part of our support for traders in the we are launching a Mill Road traders discount scheme. This scheme called ‘Milly’ will be launched at the Winter Fair where we hope to get lots of members of the public to sign up to the scheme. Prior to this we are endeavouring to get as many of the local traders on board as possible with discount and other special offers.
Read our briefing, ‘Introducing The Milly Card’. It will cost £2 for members of the public to join and get a Milly card. For the traders, the cost will only be the cost of discounts and special offers that they wish to offer.
We are looking for people to help us in discussions with the traders. Please help us if you can talk to traders (shops, restaurants, service providers) in the Mill Road area about the scheme and hopefully get them on board.
We are also looking for some volunteers to help us run the Milly stall at the Winter Fair.
If you are willing to help with either of the above, please e-mail us – we are coordinating the discussions with the traders. (If you know any traders particularly well or have a preference over who you would like to contact – please let us know).
We hope that you will support our Milly and assist us with the launch. Thank you for any assistance you can provide.