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Keeping local businesses’ buoyant is both environmentally crucial. Through maintaining low carbon foot prints and money circulating locally will contribute towards a healthier economy, and speed up its recovery process.

Thinking more laterally about the ways we can choose our suppliers and how we can have a positive effect in boosting our Community’s financial well-being may at first seem difficult to know how to implement; but we must remember, that it’s always the small changes we make that have a significant impact, immediately on the financial health of sterling being exchanged locally.

And where provenance is en vogue, we can surely capitalise on the social trend of the support of purchasing locally, whilst addressing the global benefits too.

There are many minor changes that local businesses can help when choosing suppliers. For example, Alan Vaughan, proprietor of The Countryman Inn in Shipley could easily make his own chocolate Brownies. However, he prefers to use local Chocolate company Cocoa Loco because they are based within his local area and because Cocoa Loco only import from fair trade origins. Alan also supports Sussex Gold, who are growers & producers of extra virgin rapeseed oil in the same way, and applies the same buying principles with all his suppliers’.

“Once these buying principles are considered there are so many other benefits too”  Alan says, “frankly having a great rapport with my local fellow community members, also means that feasibly, my productivity levels are highly efficient because my suppliers’ are on my door step whenever I need them, and it feels great that we all work together as a thriving community.”

So next time you have an order to place do first speak to your immediate producers because it really is a case of “united we stand”!