text: Get bargains at your local stores this Small Business Saturday
  
  Shoppers across Wandsworth can take advantage of a whole host of discounts and special offers by keeping it local this weekend.
  
  Cllr Caddy visited Balham Flowers during last year's event
  
  Small Business Saturday takes place on December 2, which is
  expected to be one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The aim is
  to encourage local people to explore their own neighbourhood and unearth the
  wide range of shops and diverse retail opportunities on their doorstep.
  
  Small neighbourhood businesses are the lifeblood of their
  communities and give residents a unique shopping experience. This year
  Wandsworth is supporting Small Business Saturday as part of its annual campaign
  to encourage people to shop locally. Shops around the borough have
  been encouraged to take part and will be publicising their offers via the
  council’s Wandsworth
  Small Biz twitter feed in the run up to, and on, the day.
  
  The weekend is all about encouraging Christmas shoppers to
  keep it local in the hope they will see and appreciate the unique lure of the
  shops in their area and become customers the whole year round.
  
  Local Business owner Laura Amos of the Dessert Deli in Northcote
  Road will be offering customers a special ‘buy
  one get one free’ deal on cup cakes. She
  said: “If everyone in the local area was to spend a couple pounds in each
  independent business then everyone would survive. Often the small independent
  businesses are the ones who also help promote their local area and give back in
  any way they can too. What goes around comes around. Every pound counts...”
  
  The council’s business spokesman Cllr Kim Caddy will be
  visiting participating businesses on the day. She said: “The heart of any
  community is its shopping centre and buying everything online makes it hard for
  small, independent shops to survive. That’s why the council has been working
  with local traders to help make Small Business Saturday a success.
  
  Small Business Saturday 2016
  
  “For every pound spent in a local independent shop or
  locally owned business, up to 70p benefits our local community, but if you shop
  at an out of town centre or online as little as 5p finds its way back.
  
  “So please save some of
  Christmas shopping for your local stores and make the most of the offers and
  discounts on Saturday.”
  
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