The Magic Tenner

Forres businesses are on board with, The Magic Tenner, the new Totally Locally National campaign for independent high streets and businesses.

The initiative runs from 7th-21st October and Forres businesses are offering up lots of fabulous £10 offers.

The campaign is built to show how spending £10 in a local independent can mean up to £50 going back into the local economy (based on this study from The New Economics Foundation). It really is like magic!

The Magic Tenner Campaign is designed to give businesses an opportunity to engage with their customers, to work together with fellow local traders and make a big deal of how important they all are to making Forres vibrant, unique and wonderful.

The people at Totally Locally who run the campaign say: “Generating £50 from £10 seems a bit far-fetched, but it’s because most local indie businesses choose to spend their money in lots of other local businesses, so the money goes round and around your town’s economy. We’ve had some totally locally businesses who have over 200 local suppliers, so you see spending with them means a huge impact for your town, region or area, compared to when you spend online, with big corporates or supermarkets where most of the money goes to shareholders and central offices. (We do take into account local wages, but it is still a huge difference).”

So who’s taking part in Forres and what are they offering?

See the gallery below and keep an eye on the FABA FB and Instagram pages for more details as the campaign runs.

Alison Johnson Artwork – £10 pack of 4 Christmas cards for the special people in your life- From original pen and ink artwork, 2 black and white and 2 Sepia print cards. Filled with Christmas motifs to convey the spirit of the festive season.
Alison Johnson Artwork – £10 concertina book – From original pen and ink artwork themed The Christmas Mice, The Workshop Mice, The Bedtime Mice.  Six adorable illustrations of mice in each
Babalu – rugs – three rugs in any colour for £10. Normally £6.50 each 75cm x 49cm
Naturally Useful – Fat ball bird feeder. Usually £18 but now £10
Logie Steading Bookshop – Two Pocket Mountain walking guides for £10. They retail at £6.99.
Cafe 1496: A hot or cold sandwich with a soft or hot drink.
Logie Steading Art Gallery. Beautiful scarves £10
The Cafe at Logie Steading. A soup, sausage roll and tea or coffee all for £10.
Lavender Love Face Cream. Usually £12, now £10. Created by Bee Home Cottage, sold by The Bakehouse in Findhorn.
Fantastic Forres book, available a different outlets across town.
Two Highland Soap Co Soaps for £10 from the Logie Farm & Garden Shop.
The Mosset. Lunch offer available till 4.45pm. The Mosset’s famous sweet and smoky chicken bites or three cheese macaroni with house salad and fries, washed down with draught coke, lemonade or diet coke.
The Pantry: A salad, a pastry slice and a coffee.
Smiths Jewellers: . Spend £50 or more on any silver item, get £10 off
Smiths Jewellers: a sonic clean and hand polish of 3 items of jewellery for £10
The Bonnie Beastie. For a tenner they are offering any food item from the lunch menu plus a soft drink/hot drink or a small beer/wine at lunch time Wednesday – Saturday (Excluding Sunday).
Asher’s
Earthling Apothecary Hemp, Rosehip & Frankincense Facial Oil ~ £10 (usually £15) Available for collection from Green Room Therapies, Sanquhar, Forres
Green Room Therapies Traditional Head Massage with Aromatherapy 20 min taster session ~ £10
(usually £30 for 45 mins)
Karly from Eva Aesthetics is offering B12 injections for £10. This is a super offer as usually this treatment costs £25 on it own or £15 with any other treatment.