Businesses in Ashton are cleaning up.
Especially when it comes to keeping the town centre clean and tidy.
To prove it, a number of local shops have just been presented with the Keep Britain Tidy Group’s Tidy Business Award.
The nationally recognised award scheme recognises businesses for such things as disposing of their waste responsibly, keeping shop frontages clean and tidy, reducing their waste and increasing recycling initiatives and supporting community clean-ups.
Wigan Council’s Environmental Education Team has been working in partnership with Town Centre Management to deliver the scheme in Ashton. So far, one bronze, 10 silver and three prestigious gold awards have been handed out.
The businesses taking part are as follows:
* Connolly’s Rental Service Ltd
* Deliciosa Café
* The Sweet Shop
* Old English Chippy
* BB’s Ice Cream Parlour
* Sephton’s Newsagents
* Past Times
* Sanbob Pets
* Gaz’s Pet Shop
* Kelrick Property
* Iredale Newsagents
* Flair n Fleur
* Anne’s Fruit Shop
* Subway
Ashton Town Centre Co-ordinator Emma Gaster says:
“We are very pleased with the overall response we have had and would like to see more businesses signed up. It’s great to see the council and businesses working together to create a nicer environment in their town centre.”
* If any business would like to take part in the Tidy Business Awards, please contact Emma Gaster, Town Centre Co-ordinator on 01942 828879 or Nick Burdekin, Environmental Education Team on 01942 488222.
1 comment:
I notice that none of the fast food take away pizza shops have joined this scheme and I would suggest that their businesses are the major contributors to this problem.
Maybe WMBC planning dept. could possibly go to any Town centre on a Sunday morning to see the aftermath of their decisions to allow so many food shops to open in any locality!
This scheme should be mandatory to all shop keepers, surely they realise that a clear, attractive shopping environment is what attracts people in? (The only ones who arn't bothered are the ones that open late in the night when the majority of their customers are too drunk to notice!)
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