This summer, something bold, fresh, and proudly independent is launching — and we’d love to have you in it from Day One as a Founding Member entitled to VIP perks and exclusive niche protection.

📣 Join the World's First Independent Business Supporters Club™

All IMSC Foundation Members have the option of a custom Pixar-style mascot video — created to promote your brand in our flagship campaigns across Harrogate and future regions — and also to your audience on social media, your website, and beyond.

🎬 Pixar-Style Animated Videos to Power Your Promotions

💷 Membership Fees

Setup fee: £497 - Directory Listing + Pixar-style animated mascot and video

🌐 Your Launchpad: LBSC Harrogate District

All IMSC Foundation Members are granted Guest Membership in the Local Business Supporters Club (LBSC) – Harrogate District, which launches officially on 01 September 2025.

🏆 The Campaign Engine

LBSC will run monthly and quarterly campaigns where restaurants, pubs, and local businesses give away gift vouchers and products to Harrogate District residents via social media contests.

Supporters earn more chances to win a prize by sharing, tagging, or taking other actions — creating a viral growth effect that boosts visibility for every participating brand.

🚀 July–August Soft Launch

Throughout July and August 2025, each participating Member contributes one product or gift voucher each month to:

• Build awareness

• Establish local trust

• Prime the audience for the full-scale launch in September

🍽️ Flagship Campaign: Win FREE Dining for a Year!

In September, we launch our flagship event:

This contest:

• One lucky Supporter per restaurant/pub wins a FREE meal every month for 12 months.

• Delivers huge perceived value to residents

• Is affordable for restaurants to honour

• Triggers powerful local viral sharing

🛍️ Independent Merchants Ride the Wave

IMSC Guest Members (you!) participate in parallel with:

Win FREE Product for a Year!

Each merchant offers one lucky Supporter a product or bundle every month for 12 months — shipped 100% free.

By launching this alongside the restaurant campaign, you benefit from:

• Surging local attention

• Organic reach + ethically incentivised sharing

• Guaranteed engagement from real consumers in the affluent HG postcode area

IBSC Yorkshire

Stage 1:

From August 1st – Yorkshire Day, we kick off the flagship IBSC campaign for the first time:

Win FREE *Product for a Year!

(*insert your business product here)

You’ll be promoted across Yorkshire and the UK throughout August, with our proven viral giveaway software pushing the Draws ethically from friend to friend.

Draw winners will be announced on 31 August 2025

✅ To the Draw winner you provide, ONE product per month for 12 consecutive months - shipped free each month to the door of ONE lucky winner whever they happen to be in the UK.

✅ What’s In It for You?

You're not expected to give away the farm, but we’re looking for Independent Merchants who understand the value being built here.

In other words the prize should have genuie perceived value - we're not looking to partner with independent Merchants that are cheap - apologies for a little Yorkshire bluntness!

✅ We handle the Giveaway campaign setup and tech, using proven viral sharing tools that encourage every entrant to share their unique link.

When friends enter via that link, the original entrant earns more entries — simple, effective, ethical.

✅ Every entrant opts in to win one of the high-perceived-value prizes, across non-competing product categories — literally something for everyone.

Your business appears in a curated showcase of standout British independents, building awareness and goodwill.

✅ You get massive visibility as the only merchant in your niche, promoted across Yorkshire and the UK in multiple campaigns.

Act fast and lock out competitors by securing your category exclusive with no long-term contract.

⚡ No contract. No obligation. Just 100% first-mover advantage.

✅ The winner gets your product. You gain positioning in front of a motivated audience, more fans, and future customers.

Together, we can build something far greater than the sum of its parts.

The momentum continues in September with our Harrogate District pilot for:

✅ Stage 2: Restaurants Take the Baton for Local Supporter Engagement

Win FREE Dining for a Year!

A joint giveaway featuring 30+ local independent restaurants and pubs.

Running for the entire month of September, this localised campaign will harness the same viral tools, driving serious engagement across the Harrogate District.

Every participating venue reaches more local residents together than they ever could alone.

Harrogate District Independent Restaurants will have witnessed the July buzz and will want in with their own high-appeal campaign.

And because the Independent Merchant Giveaway campaign helped attract and build that audience, your business earned the Independent Merchant Giveaway campaign helped attract and build that audience, your business earns recognition as a Founding Member of IBSC.

👉 Dine-in restaurants and pubs get it — they know that every £25 gift card given away typically converts to 2–4+ new customers through their doors.

With customer lifetime value as their north star, this is a no-brainer marketing move.

This way, the prize of 'FREE Product for a Year' is well and truly ticked!✅ - and the winner is super happy with their BIG win!

From your perspective, fulfilling the monthly prize over the course of a year represents a modest commitment, unlikely to place any strain on your business.

✅ How the Draw works.