Forres loves local businesses

What makes people love local businesses?

We work with Forres businesses to promote the town as a whole, and encourage shoppers to shop locally wherever possible.

In 2023, Forres was named Best Digital Community in Scotland by Scotland’s Towns Partnership.

Our social enterprise is a business member of Scotland’s Towns Partnership who run a nationwide ‘ScotlandLovesLocal’ movement and we have adopted the same text brand for our own local campaign, and other towns have followed suit. Look out for the ‘Forres Loves Local’ logo in shop windows.

All-inclusive independent local support

Moray Local CIC is our parent company limited by guarantee, which means we have no shareholders and we don’t pay dividends to our directors who all work as volunteers.

We are an independently run organisation to support local businesses, community organisations and events.

We receive no funding from local or central Government, are not in a BID (Business Improvement District), and are not a membership organisation, so all our work is the result of passionate support for our community, and excludes no-one.

The following services are free to use in order to help business promote themselves locally.

Forres Local website and Facebook page
Forres Local Business Network
Forres Local Directory
Visit Forres website and app
Forres Loves Local Facebook Group – A long-term campaign to encourage shopping locally within the IV36 postcode area.

Consultancy and content creation

Organisations with similar community objectives, can call on us for consultation services, and local commercial businesses can also get help with marketing, PR and content.

We encourage business owners to use the hashtags #ForresBusiness and #ForresLovesLocal in their posts, as we do in our business-related posts. This is an easy way to group together all business-related news and information, posted by anybody.