Category Archives: Business

Town Centre Movers and Openers

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Skinny Hippo
Where the Cherries amusement arcade once was, a Skinny Hippo is coming… I think they do Crafts and Gifts. Children or anyone over 60 can come in and be creative and make their own card or pot on the premises, while those of an inbetween age browse gifts from around the world.
What was the Charter Barber
Somebody is moving into the Charter Barber. No idea what they are to be. Those boxes only contained chairs.
Guitar Workshop
Remade Guitar workshop and sales are about to open at Coxeters. So in a matter of months Abingdon has gone from zero to two guitar shops. You can buy a guitar in one, smash it, and then remake it in the other.
Gift Centre
The Gift Centre has nearly completed their move to a few doors further up the shopping centre, and have opened.

Choose Abingdon Partnership One Year On

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Choose Abingdon Partnership
This evening the Choose Abingdon Partnership gave a presentation on what they have been doing since their creation almost a year ago. Choose Abingdon is a partnership along the lines of Didcot First and Bicester Vision – whose aim is to promote the town. So far Choose Abingdon has …

1. Set up the community shop. The current premises is about to be let, and so Scottish Widows who own the shop have offered Choose Abingdon an alternative premises.

2. Set up the Choose Abingdon Local Food and Craft Market with the help of Carbon Cutters. The first one will be on Saturday 23rd October.

3. Set up the Choose Abingdon Loyalty Card with sponsorship by Miele. The launch will be this coming Saturday.

4. Promoted Abingdon through the Whats On in Abingdon leaflet which has come out quarterly.

5. Designed new tourist maps for the town – which will soon appear instead of the current faded specimens.

We were shown a two minute video as a sampler of the 6 hours of Abingdon life that that has been professionally recorded. This and a growing photo library will be aimed at promoting Abingdon up to the Olympics.

Cargo going back to Witney and Somerfield to become the Co-op

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Top end precinct changes
Cargo are likely to be out of Abingdon by the end of October – they have a Closing Down Sale. This may tie in with the recent re-opening of Cargo in Witney with a larger premises. Cargo came to Abingdon when the Cargo in Witney closed during the redevelopment of the Witney Woolgate shopping centre.
Top end precinct changes
Somerfield is about to be re-branded as a co-operative food which will mean we will soon have two Co-ops in Abingdon Town Centre.