Shop Local Competitions

Win a prize and help a local busi­ness at the same time!

We run com­petit­ions to sup­port local businesses, by buying goods and services from them and offer­ing them as prizes.

Here's our theory: We need to advert­ise, like any busi­ness. We could spend $50 on a Facebook Ad, which would work, but doesn't help anyone else. Instead, we spend that same $50 on a voucher for some­­thing from a local busi­ness, and offer that as a prize. The busi­ness gets a sale, you get to win $50 of some­­thing useful and we still get our advert­ising result. Every­one gets some­­thing and hopefully keeps local people em­ploy­ed. Much better!

Here's how it works:

• People tell us what they'd like to win
• We purchase it from a local busi­ness
• We offer it as a prize to our readers
• Entry is free, but you need to sign in

Prizes are currently chosen by Sensa­tion­al South Coast. As we get more feedback from our readers, prizes should be more specific to what people would like to win. We don't plan to sup­port businesses out­side the region or large chain stores, un­­less run by a local franchisee.

If you have a sugges­tion for a prize, or own a small busi­ness and are inter­­est­ed in being involv­ed, please con­tact us.

Article updated 29/10/2020.