Calling all businesses, organisations and groups in and around Cupar! You can now sign-up to a range of support packages that will enable us to feature you ongoing – all helping to promote our area at the same time as ensuring we continue to create and share relevant and interesting content with our ever-growing audience … an audience that now tops 140,000 across all of our channels.

In the last five years …

• We have created and posted over 15,000 pieces of content across our core social media channels – Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
• Published more than 400 blog stories in support of businesses and community groups
• Helped to share job opportunities and thousands of local events and activities
• Provided categorised listings enabling tens of thousands to search for and find businesses and organisations in the town – accommodation, eat & drink, shopping, services and our Community Directory
• Issued over 170 e-newsletter to subscribers – more than 3,000 people signed up to receive regular updates from the town
• Sent more than 250 e-shots to those on our business database – sharing news, support, access to grants and many other business-related matters
• Issued more than 70 e-shots to community partners – sent for and on behalf of the town’s Development Trust to help promote projects involving the Trust and local stakeholders
• Published over 600 videos on our YouTube channel
• Recorded 20+ podcasts that are live on Spotify, Apple and other channels, featuring a mix of businesses and community partners
• Filmed and broadcast a TV commercial (for which we triggered matched funding) which has been viewed by approaching half a million people
• Created, printed and distributed 20,000 town guides including a digitised Blue Plaque Trail to promote heritage tourism
• Sponsored community stalls at the Cupar Market, enabling local associations, clubs and societies to raise funds, awareness and membership
• Worked with multiple partners and stakeholders to support local projects including the Association of Businesses in Cupar & District, Bell Baxter High School, Castlehill Community Association, Cupar Development Trust, Cupar’s Rotary Club and many more.

Read more on our support for Cupar and its rural catchment via this link.

Time to sign-up …

We invite businesses, organisations and groups to sign-up. Simply choose the subscription package that best suits you.

Click on the options below to open, complete and submit the sign-up form and we will be back in touch …

It is right to point out that in offering a FREE service option, we rely on those who choose to subscribe to our Bronze, Silver or Gold packages.

Once signed-up, the chosen package will be billed in April for payment. It will cover 12 months – through until the end of March 2026.

As mentioned, we have built an engaged combined digital audience that tops 140,000 across all of our channels – not bad for a town with a population of under 10,000! The majority of of our most engaged audience – followers, readers, listeners and viewers – live within an hour’s drive time of Cupar. Analytics enables us to monitor and evaluate key data relating to more than 100,000 blog readers across the world. As a result, we know we have advocates in more than 135 countries covering every time zone … all helping to amplify Cupar’s message.

And because we have such an amazing audience, Cupar’s diaspora, we have opened the opportunity for anyone – be they at home or on the other side of the world – to support our work.

We will stress: we are NOT a charity … we are a small, local company. We welcome any contribution – no matter how small – to the CuparNow Crowdfunding page (accessed via this link or by clicking on the image below). Thank you!

Testimonials

The following demonstrate CuparNow’s impact and successes better than anything we can say. And there are historic testimonials from community groups and charities that can be read via this link.

“I can provide you with an unreserved endorsement of the services provided by CuparNow over the last 5 years – an innovative and pioneering service. No other communication and marketing channel can provide remotely the same detailed targeting of local parties as is provided by CuparNow – and at such modest cost. In my role as Chairman, I can advise that CuparNow has enabled ABCD to communicate with the local community – businesses and the general public – in a manner in which we could never achieve prior to it coming into being.”

Jim Hair, Chair of Cupar’s Business Association

 

“I write as chair of the Cupar Development Trust. We have worked hand in glove with CuparNow on a series of projects through the last five years – most recently their support proving vital in enabling us to best engage with our community to complete both the Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan for Cupar. Currently, we are working with them on exciting projects that are exploring how some of the most vulnerable across our community might be best supported through a collaboration involving local food producers, healthcare partnerships and training providers.

As a result of their ‘community first’ approach, not only were we able to deliver a unique project with them that highlights Cupar as a centre for our area’s food and drink – a series of trails centred on Cupar that helps to promote 800+ food and drink businesses across north-east Fife – but working with us, they were instrumental in triggering substantial matched funding for a TV commercial that aired in 2022 and 2023, a commercial seen by more than 450,000 adults to date. They were also key to the delivery of the recent, highly successful “Big Cupar Tidy”, giving us a route to effective communication across the community. We need innovative, community-minded organisations to help create wealth and support wellbeing in our area. CuparNow – a crucial and respected player in the town – enjoys Cupar Development Trust’s full confidence as hardworking, open and effective agents for positive change in the community.”

Mr A S Miklinski CBE, Chair Cupar Development Trust

 

“Our Association is home to a thriving community centre which runs Cupar Camera Club, Cupar Model Railway Club, Cupar Art Club, Ferryfield Nursery and Playgroup, North-East Fife Credit Union, Cupar Amateur Musical Society as well as other community groups and individuals who make use of the venue. During 2019, the Association needed to raise £130,000 to build an extension to their premises. Cupar Now supported our grant applications through helping us gather community support and gathering evidence: without their support, we would have been unable to successfully complete our project.

Over the past five years I, along with the groups I represent, have worked with Cupar Now, which has supported, provided guidance and given access to the Cupar and District community at large to strengthen community partnership working through face to face and digital partnerships. Since the establishment of Cupar Now, businesses and the community have thrived. I am aware of the significant drop in vacancy rates that so benefited the town during some of the most challenging times of Covid and lockdowns. Undoubtedly, CuparNow’s constant promotion helped to raise Cupar’s profile.”

Raymond H Young, Secretary, Castlehill Community Association

 

“Three Estates Cupar (SC048967) is a small local charity, dedicated to the promotion of the area’s history and heritage. In particular, it promotes Cupar’s most famous son, Sir David Lindsay of The Mount, and his play – the oldest surviving Scottish play – Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. We have very limited funds and have found the support from CuparNow absolutely vital.

The success of our events is the direct result of CuparNow spreading the word and supporting us on the day. Our plans for the next five years are already being discussed with them, and we look forward very much to being able to continue working with CuparNow in delivering our aspirations.”

Bill Pagan, Chair, Three Estates Cupar

 

“Cupar Now has become the popular on-line ‘commercial’ platform which sustains the identity of Cupar as the market-place of the District … and has developed the professional on-line hub of news of the social activities within Cupar and the network of communities around the burgh.”

David Kirk, Chair, Cupar & District u3a

 

Need more?

You can read more on CuparNow, our history and plans for the future via this link – or by clicking on the image below. You can also see a precis of the same that is shared on our YouTube channels via this link.

 

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Thank you for reading.