{"id":19462,"date":"2017-11-04T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19462"},"modified":"2017-11-04T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:04:25","slug":"oxford-etsy-have-opened-a-pop-up-shop-in-bury-street-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19462","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Etsy have opened a pop-up shop in Bury Street, Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17110401.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Etsy\" \/><br \/>\nOxford Etsy have opened a pop-up shop in Bury Street, Abingdon today. The new shop will be open from 10am \u2013 5.30pm six days a week (closed on Mondays) from 4 November to 17 December.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the Independent Shops Project &#8211; an initiative where the VWHDC have enlisted the help of Iain Nicholson, a town centre specialist.  The scheme helps small businesses to fill empty units in the town by creating pop-up shops and also allows retailers to \u2018test the waters\u2019 before committing to a permanent location in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Etsy sell locally handmade items: jewellery, art, prints, candles, greetings cards, children\u2019s clothing, furniture, bags, accessories and home decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Christina O\u2019Hare, who runs her own business, Christina Made It, has co-ordinated the Etsy team and said, \u201c<em>I soon realised there was a high demand for a retail outlet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201c<em>I contacted Iain who helped me enormously by explaining the process and putting us in contact with the landlord<\/em>s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow the teams progress on their Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oxfordetsyteam\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oxfordetsyteam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Etsy have opened a pop-up shop in Bury Street, Abingdon today. The new shop will be open from 10am \u2013 5.30pm six days a week (closed on Mondays) from 4 November to 17 December. This is part of the Independent Shops Project &#8211; an initiative where the VWHDC have enlisted the help of Iain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}