Winchester Chamber Of Commerce Urges Support Of Local Businesses

The Winchester Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit organization with a volunteer board of directors and several hundred members that includes businesses, community members, entrepreneurs, nonprofit groups, home-based companies and individuals, serves to promote and serve member businesses, through our many programs and initiatives.

With the current Covid-19 precautions and restrictions, Winchester’s local stores, restaurants and companies have encountered a record decline, and sometimes total interruption, of retail and professional business.

The Winchester Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has recently been brainstorming for ways to assist our local shop-owners and businesses on how to keep their businesses open, how to keep their merchandise and services available, and how to better serve as a resource for those seeking help in filing for Small Business Association and Payroll Protection Loans. Coupled with our communication and collaboration with local and state legislators, banks and business entities, we will provide a platform of information to better serve our membership and the business community.

To do this, the Chamber is currently undertaking publicity efforts to increase on-line and curbside shopping with eligible storefront and member merchants, increasing business visibility on our website at www.winchesterchamber.com and other publicity outlets, soliciting financial donors to support these attempts at assistance to keep Winchester Center vibrant and open for business, and helping small businesses navigate their way through forms and applications for potential federal assistance grants and loans. We have compiled a wealth of information and resources for these purposes.

Our goal to serve as a reliable and sophisticated information source, and our commitment to help guide businesses through everyday and turbulent business challenges, has never been as important as it is now. We ask you, as consumers, to double-down your efforts and “Shop 01890” to support our local retailers and restaurants whenever, and however, possible. We also invite business-owners to reach out to us by calling 781-729-8870, e-mailing info@winchesterchamber.com , and updating your business profile on our website with your current contact information, hours and other pertinent information. The Winchester Chamber of Commerce is also always accepting new membership, directly, or through our website.

The Winchester Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Cathy Alexander, President Craig Rabe and our Board of Directors, while not physically in the office, are responsive and attentive to all local business concerns and will help however we can.

Lauren Costello, Board of Directors

Winchester Chamber of Commerce