Try our free Sustainability Toolkit
By Katie Fewings • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: frontpageSustaining the revival of your town
As part of its BIG Lottery funded Towns Alive programme, AMT is now able to provide free access to its Sustainability Toolkit for community groups in every small town in England.
The Sustainability Toolkit is designed to support the forward planning and development needs of community associations and partnerships, town and parish councils and other community organisations that are working to revive and sustain their towns.
The toolkit is a free, diagnostic test which will help you make an objective and holistic assessment of your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses and will then signpost you to resources and training appropriate to your own situation and needs.
This support covers a whole range of needs, from developing a business plan or improving your management of volunteers, to accessing funding.
We are trying to tell as many community groups as possible about the Sustainability Toolkit so if you know of another organisation in your town that would benefit from this support, please pass on the link to this page.
There is a help function within the toolkit that will direct you to technical assistance in completing the diagnostic test.
If you have any queries regarding the Sustainability Toolkit, please get in touch with Debbie McGrath at debbie.mcgrath@towns.org.uk
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Katie Fewings is Katie graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with a BA in Modern Languages (French, Spanish & Portuguese).
She honed her organisational skills over nearly four years as PA to the Director of an internationally renowned firm of architects in London before moving to Brighton and taking up the post of Project Manager at the online ethical travel directory, responsibletravel.com. In this role, she organised the annual Responsible Tourism Awards with partners World Travel Market, The Telegraph, Geographical Magazine and BBC World News, and facilitated a programme to develop and support community based tourism with the Washington NGO, Conservation International.
Katie has a strong interest in issues of sustainability and social responsibility, and has set up her own website, Ethical Weddings (www.ethicalweddings.com) to help couples plan the wedding of their dreams without compromising their values. She also co-founded Our Ethical Network in Brighton to give ethically motivated businesses in the city the chance to meet one another, share common problems and explore business opportunities.
Katie is developing AMT's online presence and helping towns to share knowledge and best practice from their successful initiatives through online networking in the new AMT Forums and other social media.
She works Tuesdays and Thursdays and can be contacted on 07876 701 266 or by email at katie.fewings@towns.org.uk.
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