The My Shop is Your Shop campaign is looking for local shops with a track record in community engagement to put themselves forward for the MSYS Community Retailing Award. Following last year’s successful campaign, which saw 50 stores presented with the award by their local MP, ...

My Shop is Your Shop is back on the hunt for great community retailers to recieve the MSYS Community Retailing Award. Last year saw 50 MPs present the awards to great stores in their communities - now we want to expand that contact with even more vists this summer. Here's ...

My Shop is Your Shop is encouraging independent retailers to take part in Britivc Soft Drinks' Transform Your Patch project, an initiative that sets out to benefit local communities through the regeneration of outdoor spaces.

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The My Shop is Your Shop MP engagement programme for 2011 has ended with us achieving our target of 50 MP visits to great local stores. Since the first visit in April we've been around the country introducing retailers to their local MP and impressing them with the fantastic ...

My Shop is Your Shop and Cadbury have teamed up to provide local retailers a chance to win big for their business and their community. Launched this week, independent retailers can enter their store to be in with a chance to win a Community Retailing Award, including £1000 for ...

A RETAILING couple have scooped a Gold Award in the My Shop is Your Shop campaign for work within their village community in Dorset.

Sue and Bob Young were commended by Bob Walter MP for the way their shop Robin Hill Stores and Post Office has bedded in and supported ...

Thousands of early morning customers got a healthy start to their day by walking to their local shop on national Walk and Shop Day, October 5.

The day, which is part of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ ‘My Shop is Your Shop’ campaign, promotes ...

A Dorset MP has called on residents of a village in his constituency to support their award-winning local shop to preserve its vital role in the community

Richard Drax presented Juliet and ...

A Surrey retailer has dedicated her store’s My Shop is Your Shop award to “Our lovely staff and our great customers."

Pat Puttnam and her husband Cliff, who run the ...

A shopkeeper was celebrating this week after receiving an award for their dedicated service to their local community. Hard-working Judith Kirk runs Betty's News in Mawgan Porth, near Newquay, Cornwall, with her son Stuart. The ...

 Shoppers will be reminded of the benefits of walking to their local store on Walk and Shop Day, October 5^th.

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Mo’s Premier Convenience Store in Glasgow has been praised as “a great example of a shop which helps to bind communities together” by Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Tom Greatrex.

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A Mace store in Hampshire has been given a national award for its contribution to the local community Hexagon Stores owner Vip Panchmatia and his team were presented with the My Shop is ...

The staff of a shop in Hampden Park, East Sussex has been awarded a national award for their contribution to the local community.... read more

The Front Page in Thamesmead has won an award for its long-serving service to the local community.

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 A village shop in Kent has received a national award for its contribution to the local community.... read more

Washington and Sunderland West MP Sharon Hodgson praised the “fantastic sense of community” created by staff at the Costcutter store in Sunderland as she presented them with the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award ...

Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, writes about her visit to present an MSYS award to McNaughton's Newsagents.

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From Northampton Chronicle and Echo

A village post office has won an award ...

A convenience store in High Wycombe invited its customers to join in the celebration as it received a national award for its community ties.... read more

An MP has praised the “strong sense of community” in a local independent shop which he says is an example to other retailers. 

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 Ashdene Service Station in East Sussex has become the first forecourt in the UK to win the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing.   The award, which recognizes the ...

 A Warwickshire newsagent has been awarded a Gold award for Community  Retailing by the My Shop is Your Shop team.

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Local councilors joined Cheadle MP Mark Hunter to thank Cheadle Hulme Costcutter for its contribution to its local community.

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To celebrate the special role that the Londis shop in Stroud Green plays in the local community, Lynne Featherstone MP, on Friday, presented the owner, Bimal Patel, with a Gold Award for Community ...

MP for Rochester and Strood Mark Reckless called on the public to make more use of local shops which "really do care for their customers" during a visit to S&J News in Rochester.

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has praised a Budgens store in his South Cambridgeshire constituency for its excellent community work during a visit to the store.

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Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning was so impressed with the team at the town's Nisa Local store in Crabtree Lane that he invited them all to visit him in London for a tour of the Houses of Parliament.

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP for North Somerset, presented the My Shop Your Shop Gold Award to Julie Hartnell and Chris Bennett at Best One, the local shop in Clandown, near Bath.

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Burton-on-Trent retailer Shaid Hussain has won the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award for outstanding service to the community through his newsagent, Good News. ...

 The team at Londis Howell Road in Exeter have been rewarded for their excellent relationship with their customers with a My Shop is Your Shop Community Award, presented by local MP Ben Bradshaw. ...

National Independents Week, the annual celebration of the contribution to communities made by local shops, has seen stores across the country receive the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award for community retailing, with MPs ...

 My Shop is Your Shop has created a template poster which can be personalised with your message to customers during National Independents' Week, May 29 - June 4. You can download the POS ... read more

 Independent retailers have a chance to reward their customers for their loyalty with My Shop is Your Shop promotions during National Independents’ Week, which runs from May 29 – June 4. MSYS supplier ...

An impressive list of parliamentary heavyweights is adding its support to the My Shop is Your Shop (MSYS) campaign, which invites MPs to experience for themselves the community ties and customer service offered by ...

A free booklet containing great ideas for promoting your store to new customers has been published by the My Shop is Your Shop campaign. The Little Book of Big Ideas suggests ways to gain the support of ...

“Some retailers are good some of the time, these boys are good all of the time,” Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP David Blunkett said in presenting Mandeep, Vrinder and  Baljeet Singh with a ...

When Damian Hinds MP presented the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award to Taylor Green's Londis in Lindford, Hampshire, retail trade magazine ... read more

Connaught Road Post Office and Supermarket in Market Harborough is the latest store to receive the My Shop is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing.

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Suppliers and wholesalers are showing their support for independent ...

 The My Shop is Your Shop campaign launched in style last week with the first in a series of visits by MPs to great local stores. 

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The Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ My Shop is Your Shop campaign is looking for excellent independent retailers who can impress Members of Parliament with their outstanding success in engaging with their local community.

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The Federation of Wholesale Distributors relaunches its My Shop is Your Shop campaign this month with a new look and a stronger focus on promoting the value of independent stores, both to shoppers and to Members of ...