Meet our National Partners

Prosperous Places – town centres at the heart of our communities

Working in partnership to make our towns more prosperous places
At Action for Market Towns (AMT) we believe the best way to make our towns more prosperous places is to work with likeminded organisations.

So we’ve teamed up with our first National Partners – they all share our aims but have different areas of expertise and bring new ideas on how to tackle small town issues.

Share, debate and act

We’ve created this space for our National Partners, their members and our members to:

Share – research into how towns become more prosperous places and some tools that can help them on their way.
Debate – in our online forums where we will capture new ideas on how to make towns more prosperous places. Our feed at #ProsperousPlaces is another place we can gather short, sharp ideas on this topic.
Act – on issues affecting small towns. We’ll update this page with the latest joint actions we’re taking with our National Partners and let you know how you can get involved.

We’ve brought together some useful tools and research on the theme of Prosperous Places. Look out for the AMT logo showing services and benefits for AMT Members.

Research – Find out more about the issues affecting our small towns
Tools – Get tools to help your town

Healthy High Street? The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a new practical guide to help councils, community organisations and local businesses keep their High Street vibrant and healthy. Find out more about the Healthy High Street Guide.

Debate

Head to our Prosperous Places online forum to give your views on how we can help our small towns become more prosperous places. In the forum you’ll meet…

Geoff – our FRG (Friendly Retail Guru)
Geoff Burch - retail guru Geoff Burch has worked extensively with the world’s major blue chip and FTSE 500 companies to inspire and motivate their people. He is a regular contributor and presenter on TV and radio, and is the star of the BBC’s hit business show ‘All Over the Shop’ which focused on helping small businesses to survive and thrive.

Geoff is also a popular business writer whose books include Resistance is Useless – the Art of Business Persuasion, Go It Alone – the Streetwise Secrets of Self Employment, and his latest offering, Irresistible Persuasion.

Join Geoff in our AMT Forum and ask him to reveal his retail secrets to help your small town.

Tweet
Follow us at www.twitter.com/townsalive and add your ideas to the mix with the hashtag #ProsperousPlaces. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Find out how to use Twitter