{"id":1104,"date":"2015-12-11T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2015-12-11T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:12:10","slug":"annual-campaign-goes-from-strength-to-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/annual-campaign-goes-from-strength-to-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual campaign goes from strength-to-strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Saturday has been hailed a major success, with around \u00a3623million spent with small businesses on the day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The grassroots campaign, which aims to encourage people to get behind independent traders, is now in its third year.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary figures from last Saturday (December 5<sup>th<\/sup>) suggest that spending at smaller companies was up 20 per cent on 2014\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Three quarters of local councils did something to support the initiative and more than 100,000 tweets were posted during the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said: \u201cThe campaign is a celebration of small businesses and their contribution to society, to the economy, and to our communities \u2013 and was the moment for everyone across the UK to show small firms some love!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event also attracted a number of high-profile endorsements, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, visiting stallholders outside the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Organiser Michelle Ovens was delighted by the number of businesses who reported a surge in takings and she was optimistic that next year\u2019s event would build on the success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of Small Business Saturday is not just to raise awareness of our diverse and innovative small business sector, but also to create a campaign from which they can derive tangible benefit,\u201d she told the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that spend with small businesses on the day was up by \u00a3119m demonstrates that this is happening, and I am confident it will carry forward into 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Saturday has been hailed a major success, with around \u00a3623million spent with small businesses on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}