Slow response to Welshpool voucher scheme

Plans to introduce a voucher scheme to use in local businesses has been slow to capture the imagination of local businesses after just six responses were received.

Last month, Welshpool Town Council’s Events & Planning Committee agreed in principal to the idea, but wanted to gauge interest from the business community before investing too much time and money.

And this week’s update won’t have provided too much enthusiasm for the scheme after Town Clerk, Richard Williams, admitted the response had been “not that great”.

Reporting back to councillors, he said: “Last month you asked us to find out if there is an appetite for the Voucher Scheme, so we delivered letters to all of Welshpool retails businesses and we had six responses back, but all of the six are positive in doing something.”

He said that around 40 letters had been sent so advised: “I don’t think we go ahead on the basis of six so we should wait until more respond. But they like the concept and how it will work.”

It is thought that the scheme would work by residents buying vouchers, which could be given as gifts, and then used in participating town centre businesses.