Towns Alive is a £2 million, five year programme to help sustain and revitalise market towns.

The programme was launched at the AMT Convention in Skipton by Countryfile presenter John Craven (pictured centre, with AMT Chairman Catherine Hammant and Chief Executive Chris Wade, together with Market Town Award winners from English regions).

Click here for a programme summary.

For more information and contact details for each part of the programme, click on the links below:

•Training: A Market Towns Academy will develop and run training programmes – including online courses – to help partnerships more effectively organise, plan and manage their resources.
•Policy: A Market Towns Think Tank will co-ordinate research and policy studies affecting market towns.
•Good Practice: A Towns-for-Towns programme will help towns share knowledge and good practice with each other.
•A National Voice for Market Towns will help to influence national and regional policy affecting market towns as well as keeping market town partnerships up-to-date with development and opportunities in market town regeneration.

The Towns Alive programme manager is Debbie McGrath, who can be contacted at debbie.mcgrath@towns.org.uk

The Towns Alive programme is supported by a £1 million award from the Big Lottery Fund.