Scotland Loves Local Gift Card prepares to launch

June 30, 2021 | by Marc Blake

Kirsten Scott, Co-Director of The Guild, Dumfries, and owner of Mala Interiors, promoting the new Scotland Loves Local Gift Card in Dumfries town centre. The card is being rolled out across all of the country's 32 local authority areas as part of the Scotland Loves Local campaign in 2021, spearheaded by Scotland's Towns Partnership (STP), with the support of the Scottish Government and working with Perth-based fintech Miconex. Picture only for use in connection with promoting the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card.: Stuart Walker Photography 2021

Scotland’s Town Partnership- the organisation behind the Scotland Loves Local campaign – has joined forces with the trailblazing town and city gift cards provider Miconex to launch the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card.

The objective of the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card is to encourage consumers to spend money locally, in turn supporting local businesses that are emerging from the impact of the Covid-19 restrictions.

The Gift Card is a localised product for each of Scotland’s 32 local authority areas and will be rolled out across Scotland. Rollout success hinges on local authority areas participating in the scheme to allow use of the Gift Card in every region of Scotland. IN doing so, they will enable the active participation of businesses across Scotland and keep community spending local for longer.

Thanks to support from the Scottish Government, the scheme will be rolled out this summer. It will embrace the spriit of the Scotland Loves Local campaing, which has played a pivotal part in the national repsonse to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic by urging people to think local first for all their needs, whether in person or online.

Read more about the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card here.