Introducing Cleveleys Now: Your Local Business Directory |
A new community resource bringing Thornton-Cleveleys businesses together and helping residents find local services |
Finding a trusted local business should be simple. Whether you need a tradesperson, a place to eat, a shop, a hairdresser, or help with a service close to home, the answer may be right here in Thornton-Cleveleys.
That is the idea behind Cleveleys Now — a community directory designed to bring local businesses together and make it easier for residents to discover the people and services on their doorstep.
A local directory with a community purpose
Thornton-Cleveleys has a wide mix of independent businesses, established companies, shops, cafés, hospitality venues, tradespeople and service providers. They all help make our area a place to live, work and visit.
But when someone needs a particular service, they do not always know where to start. Recommendations from friends are valuable, and search engines and social media can help, but information is often spread across different pages and platforms.
Cleveleys Now aims to make that search easier by bringing useful local business information together in one convenient online place.
Helping residents find local businesses
The directory is being developed to help people find businesses relevant to their needs, from everyday essentials to specialist services. Instead of having to remember a social media post or scroll through endless updates, visitors can use a dedicated local resource to discover businesses serving Thornton and Cleveleys.
The aim is straightforward: make local businesses easier to find and help residents consider local options when they are ready to buy, book or get in touch.
An invitation to businesses across the area
Cleveleys Now is inviting businesses from across Thornton-Cleveleys to be part of the directory. Whether you run a small independent shop, a family business, a professional service, a café, a restaurant or a trades business, your work is part of the local picture.
Being listed in a directory gives potential customers another way to come across your business online. It can complement your own website, social media pages and other marketing — it is not intended to replace them.
For smaller businesses in particular, having another place where people can discover their name and services can be a useful addition to their online presence. A clear listing can help people understand what you offer and decide how to contact you.
This is about creating a shared local resource, where businesses of different sizes have an opportunity to be discovered by the community they serve.
Stronger together
A thriving local community benefits when residents can find local services and businesses have more opportunities to reach customers. Keeping spending local where possible can help support jobs, high streets and the character of our area.
Of course, a directory only becomes truly useful when it grows. The more local businesses that take part, the more helpful it can become for people looking for services across Thornton and Cleveleys.
That is why Cleveleys Now welcomes businesses from across the area and encourages residents to use the directory when looking for a local business.
Be part of Cleveleys Now
If you own or manage a business in Thornton-Cleveleys, consider joining the directory and helping build a useful online resource for our community. If you live locally, keep Cleveleys Now in mind the next time you need to find a business nearby.
Visit cleveleysnow.com to explore the project and find out more.
Cleveleys Now is taking its first steps towards bringing the local business community closer together — making it easier to find local businesses, and helping our area thrive. |
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My wife's been looking for a decent local hairdresser since we moved to Cleveleys last year. Something like this would have saved us a lot of searching around Facebook.
That's a perfect example of the problem Cleveleys Now is trying to solve, useful local information scattered across different platforms and pages, when ideally it should all be in one convenient place.
paulfc_localThere's a really good one on Victoria Road if that helps in the meantime. But yeah, having somewhere local to search would make life so much easier, especially when you're new to the area and don't know who to ask.
Will be interesting to see how many businesses actually sign up. These things only work if enough local traders get on board. Hope it takes off.
You've put your finger on exactly what we say in the article, the directory only becomes truly useful as more businesses join, which is why we're actively encouraging local traders across Thornton-Cleveleys to get involved from the start.
Sandra BriggsThat's the thing with directories isn't it, bit of a chicken and egg situation. Residents won't use it if there's nothing on there, and businesses won't bother listing if no one's using it. Hopefully enough people share it around to get it going.
Good idea, about time somewhere like Thornton-Cleveleys had its own directory. Too many times I've ended up using a big national site just to find a local plumber.
That's a frustration we hear often, and it's one of the key reasons Cleveleys Now exists, to give residents a dedicated local resource so the answer to 'who's my nearest plumber?' is a little closer to home.
Dave T.Same here. I ended up going with some company based miles away because I couldn't find anyone local online. Turned out there was a perfectly good electrician two streets away from me the whole time.