This evening the Choose Abingdon Partnership gave a presentation on what they have been doing since their creation almost a year ago. Choose Abingdon is a partnership along the lines of Didcot First and Bicester Vision – whose aim is to promote the town. So far Choose Abingdon has …

1. Set up the community shop. The current premises is about to be let, and so Scottish Widows who own the shop have offered Choose Abingdon an alternative premises.

2. Set up the Choose Abingdon Local Food and Craft Market with the help of Carbon Cutters. The first one will be on Saturday 23rd October.

3. Set up the Choose Abingdon Loyalty Card with sponsorship by Miele. The launch will be this coming Saturday.

4. Promoted Abingdon through the Whats On in Abingdon leaflet which has come out quarterly.

5. Designed new tourist maps for the town – which will soon appear instead of the current faded specimens.

We were shown a two minute video as a sampler of the 6 hours of Abingdon life that that has been professionally recorded. This and a growing photo library will be aimed at promoting Abingdon up to the Olympics.