WEM is developing a ‘West End Online’ website to promote local businesses, trade, community groups, and services. This has moved to its beta version (a nerdy name for testing) and is currently looking for local partners who want to begin being listed.
The West End area has suffered many of the same challenges that Morecambe has faced as a whole, but being smaller and separated by the Frontierland site has led to the area often being left out of the Town’s focus on investment and
promotion. Having listened to many discussions on raising awareness of local facilities WEM has taken up the baton with a new promotional directory website: West End Online. It aims to both promote the many positive opportunities in the area as well as encourage trade, business, and use of local facilities/services by both the local community and
visitors from the district. There is a 100% truth that if we don’t shop local, we will lose local shops. The same applies to community facilities. West End Online also aims to act as a tool for improving collaboration between traders and groups in the West End by showing that working together helps each other individually. We’re not suggesting this project will change the world, but we hope it will help add some strengthening stitches to the fabric that is the West End community. We intend to keep things simple, clean, and useful. It will not be a social media platform for chats, rants, or reviews, just a simple informed directory.
STARTING UP
The beta version of the website is already online, and we are now looking to start populating it with listings. The project is free to sign up to and aside from some basic criteria all we will likely ask is that listings are checked as up to date
once a year when a reminder is sent out to do so. The site will have limitations to start with, but hopefully will grow
with time and interest. The project is currently being organised in-house by WEM but in due course will be handed over to an independent deliverer. You can see the website online by visiting…
www.west-end-online.uk
WEM is keen to hear from other organisations that deliver similar activity or who may be interested in linking with, supporting, or funding West End Online.
This news story is extracted from the latest WEM Newsletter (Autumn, 2023), which is delivered free to every home in the West End of Morecambe. You can read or download the full newsletter here:
