Live in Reigate
When your town shops local, its schools and clubs get a share.
BackMyTown runs a local marketplace one town at a time. A town’s independent businesses sell through its own site, and half of our fee on every sale goes to the school, club or charity the buyer chooses. Prices are never more than the shop’s usual price.
Run a business or a group? For businesses or for community groups.
On a £100 order in Reigate
Never more than the shop’s usual price, and it can be less. Our fee comes out of the shop’s side.
- The shop receives
- £96
- The community group receives
- £2
- BackMyTown keeps
- £2
Paid straight into the shop’s own Stripe account, less Stripe’s card processing fee.
2% of the sale, paid monthly by bank transfer. It comes out of our fee, not out of the shop’s takings.
What is left of our fee after the group’s share. This is how the platform pays for itself.
How it works
Three steps, and then it looks after itself
Pick the causes you care about
Buy from businesses in your town
Your groups get paid every month
For local businesses
We bring you the customers too
A weekly email of local offers to the households in your town who ask for it, and nothing to pay until you sell something.
For community groups
Fundraising that needs no volunteers
No raffle tickets, no bag packing, no asking families for more money. Your supporters shop as they already do.
What gets sold
Ordinary things people already buy
This works because nobody has to shop differently. The money that already moves through a town’s bakeries, butchers, cafés and clubs simply carries a little more with it. A business is free to price lower here than over the counter, and never higher: that one is in theagreement every business signs.
- Event tickets
- Places at clubs and classes, by the term
- Gift cards
- Seasonal boxes
- Pre-orders and collections
- Meat, bread and veg boxes
Every town, one at a time
Want this in your town?
Reigate is first, with InvestReigate. After that it is a matter of finding the people who already hold a town together: the PTA chair, the club secretary, the shop owner everyone knows. If that sounds like you, tell us where you are.