Burntisland businesses to be highlighted in Visa sponsored Totally Locally campaign

Visa and Totally Locally are helping to take towns and high streets all across the country online and support the independent businesses that make local communities unique.

Totally Locally Burntisland is a community effort to support local shops, businesses, crafts people and artists.

Burntisland been chosen to feature in the Visa’s national promotion campaign out of over 100 towns after making headlines with the rejuvenation of the town’s thriving High Street.

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Yvonne Shivas, coordinator with Totally Locally Burntisland said: “It is amazing news that Burntisland has been chosen to feature in Visa’s national campaign that will be highlighting two local business, Tom Courts Butcher and Grain and Sustain.

"It has all come about after Visa sponsored Fiver Fest, we started talking to them and they realised that we are a town that is working well and thriving.

"There is a whole range of shops and several different cafes for people to visit, free parking as well as the nearby beach for shoppers to take their children.

"A lot of people were really quite concerned when everything shut through lockdown, but now as things ease people are returning to the High Street and not only locals but people who have travelled to shop here – when we get back to normal we will see a real boom.”

Yvonne attributes Burntisland’s High Street success to businesses and owners working together rather than competing against each other.

"There is nothing magical about Totally Locally,” she adds. “We are like a glue that holds everyone together, and there is nothing anyone has to do apart from cooperate to make it work.

"A lot of the businesses in the town are part of a message group where everyone actively supports each other, and it is also a forum where we can offer advice.

"It has not been easy, but there are many businesses that are working together to make the High Street work and to be featured in Visa’s national promotion campaign is testament to everyone's hard work.”

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