Mullingar Tidy Towns and Mullingar Chamber launch Best Shop Front Competition

Mullingar Tidy Towns and Mullingar Chamber are running a Best Shop Front Competition for Christmas 2018.

It is open to all shops and businesses in Mullingar. 

Last year was a great success and there were lots of great entries, including the winner for Christmas 2017 – Fagan’s. 

The procedure will be the same this year.

All entries should be sent to Mullingartidytowns1@gmail.com or sent to Mullingar Tidy Towns, Market House, Market Square, Mullingar, Westmeath, by December 12.

The competition will be judged on December 18.

The three judges will score out of 10 in each category.

Each judge will score the shop front on the basis of

• Clean well presented (no graffiti, clean floors, windows, signs etc.)

• Design consideration of signage - simple, easy to understand and attractive, made out of durable, high quality materials.

• Well presented window display 

• Christmas Decorations - based on illuminations and in the spirit of Christmas.

• Entrance -inviting clean and attractive

• Over and above eg, demonstrate collaborative work to improve business environment, environmental initiatives, planting community involvement etc.

• Public Domain - improving appearance of public area surrounding the business eg, footpaths, associated street furniture.

The entry forms are available on the Facebook events page of Mullingar Tidy Towns or by by email Mullingartidytowns1@gmail.com, or Mullingar Chamber Office at The Market Square, Mullingar (near Joe Dolan statue)

Best of luck to all this year’s entrants.