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Sadiq Khan with members of East End Trades Guild at Spitalfields City Farm.
- Credit: EETG
Shopkeepers are campaigning in east London to get London mayor election candidates to pledge to help them recover from the Covid crisis.
Members of the East End Trades Guild quizzed Labour’s Sadiq Khan on his election trail in Spitalfields on Wednesday, April 21.
They held an outdoor roundtable discussion at Spitalfields City Farm, drawing his attention to the plight of businesses which have been forced to close for most of the past 12 months.
Reopening after lockdown is not helping when they are faced with a return to high rents and “outmoded business rates” based on pre-lockdown trade, they told him.
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Richard Ince, of Ince Umbrellas, has signed his shop up to the scheme
- Credit: East End Trades Guild
Umbrella makers, jewellers and other independent stores in Tower Hamlets have joined forces to provide Christmas shoppers with an alternative to Amazon this week.
As London moved into Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions, the East End Trades Guild announced it had set up a one-stop online shop, bringing together more than 20 businesses.
It is estimated the pandemic has cost small businesses an average of £17,074, with seven per cent of small businesses permanently closing in the capital.
Krissie Nicolson, the East End Trades Guild’s executive director, said: “If done collectively, a small act of conscious consumer power can make a big difference to family run businesses.