Celebrate Portsmouth’s small businesses
After the celebratory event of Small Business Saturday on the 1st December, the MP for Portsmouth South, Stephen Morgan, made a point of emphasising that small businesses were very important to the area, and that they should not be forgotten about every other day of the year.
He has visited local small traders in an attempt to publicise the Small Business Saturday campaign.
He said: ‘The responsibility to support small business should extend beyond one day a year. As the very fabric of our communities, Portsmouth’s small businesses offer a huge amount to our city.’
Source: Portsmouth.co.uk
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