{"id":15374,"date":"2017-11-10T15:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=15374"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:34:21","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas-across-the-causeway-coast-and-glens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/11\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas-across-the-causeway-coast-and-glens\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas across the Causeway Coast and Glens!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And with this in mind, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council\u2019s Town Management team is organising a Best Dressed Christmas Window Competition in Ballycastle, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady.<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"\"It aims to recognise the efforts local businesses put into creating festive windows which add to the Christmas shopping experience in our local towns. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Councillor Joan Baird OBE, said: \u201cWe are already seeing some of our shops and businesses getting into the Christmas spirit with their window displays, and I hope this competition encourages everyone to take part. Christmas window displays provide a fabulous festive welcome to shoppers and visitors and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the creative efforts of our traders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Julienne Elliott, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council\u2019s Town & Village Manager, added: \u201cEvery year businesses within our four main towns make every effort to encourage customers to shop local.\u00a0 Creating attractive festive windows is a great way to bring people into our town centres and they are a positive addition to the overall town centre experience at Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0 Deciding on a winner will always be a difficult process but I look forward to seeing what each town has to offer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges will be asked to assess the windows based on the following three categories:<\/span><\/p>\n

Innovation \u2013 How well designed and creative is the display?<\/span><\/p>\n

Colour \u2013 how attractive is the display?<\/span><\/p>\n

Appeal \u2013 how encouraged would you be to spend money in their shop?<\/span><\/p>\n

The winners and runner ups in each town will receive a trophy in recognition of their efforts. The overall winner in each town will receive an electronic tablet to assist in developing their business.<\/span><\/p>\n

The judging panels made up of local representatives from each town will be visiting Ballymoney, Ballycastle, Limavady and Coleraine in early December to make their choices.\u00a0 There is no need to formally enter the competition and retailers must have their displays ready by Friday 1st<\/sup> December.<\/span><\/p>\n

For further information on Christmas activities throughout the Borough go to <\/span>www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk\/christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And with this in mind, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council\u2019s Town Management team is organising a Best Dressed Christmas Window Competition in Ballycastle, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Limavady. It aims to recognise the efforts local businesses put into creating festive windows which add to the Christmas shopping experience in our local towns. The Mayor of … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15376,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions\/15376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}