Networking Events
Find out about upcoming and past networking events around the country. Get up to 30% off events as an AMT member. Find out more about AMT membership here
Upcoming
June 2012
Wednesday 13th June 2012- Town Centre Solutions, Harrogate
Following the success of the Town Centre Solutions events in the South and West earlier this year, we have now scheduled to repeat this event in North Yorkshire on 13th June. These Town Centre Solutions workshops provide a unique opportunity for those who work in and on behalf of town centres to learn about an innovative set of solutions, services and ideas which help deliver economic vibrancy.
Find out more about the Town Centre Solutions event in Harrogate here.
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Thursday 21 June 2012 – ‘Marketing Your Town’ Diss, East Anglia
A repeat of the popular ‘Marketing your Town (or Village) ‘ workshop which aims to help small towns and villages increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing and promotion using low cost methods.
Find out more about ‘ Marketing Your Town’ – Diss here
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Wednesday 27 June 2012 – ‘Marketing Your Town’ Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire
Due to popular demand the ‘Marketing Your Town’ event will also be repeated the following week, on Wednesday 27th June, in the South West of England, in Chipping Sodbury. These workshops help small towns and rural parishes to increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing.
Find out more about Marketing Your Town’ – Chipping Sodbury here
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July 2012
Tuesday 24 July 2012 – Town Centre Solutions Frodsham, Cheshire
Given the challenges threatening the sustainability of our small towns and the current Government and media spotlight on town centres, the AMT ‘Town Centre Solutions’ workshop is proving to be extremely popular and in great demand. We are therefore pleased to announce another Town Centre Solutions workshop, this time in Frodsham, Cheshire on 24 July.
Find out more about the Town Centre Solutions event in Frodsham here
Host an event in your town
Due to popular demand AMT is planning to repeat its Neighbourhood Planning, marketing and town centre solutions events – locations and dates to be confirmed.
Market Towns Academy events
You might also like to take a look at our upcoming Market Towns Academy training events
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Past events
May
Tuesday 1 May 2012 – Marketing Your Town – Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
In response to demand, this was the first of a series re-run of the very popular Marketing your Town workshop. These workshops help small towns and rural parishes to increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing.
- Find out more about ‘Marketing Your Town’ – Kirkby Stephen here
April 2012
Wednesday 25 April – ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning’ - Oakengates, Telford
This workshop considered the Localism Act, specifically focussing on aspects related to planning, land use and development, looking at what the new rights and opportunities offered by Localism, mean in reality to communities living in and around small towns and parishes.
Find out more about Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – Telford here
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Tuesday 17th April – Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – Dawlish
The ‘Getting to Grips’ workshops was repeated in Devon in April, helping small towns and parishes understand the opportunities presented by the Localism Act. This workshop provided an overview of the Localism Act, specifically focussing on aspects related to planning, land use and development. Through a variety of presentations, workshops and Q&A discussions delegates learnt about the new rights and opportunities offered by Localism. This particular workshop also looked at the particular challenges faced by small coastal towns.
Find out more about Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – Devon here.
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Thursday 8 March – ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning’ - Chesham, Buckinghamshire
This workshop provided an overview of the Localism Act, specifically focussing on aspects related to planning, land use and development. Through a variety of presentations, workshops and Q&A discussions delegates learnt about the new rights and opportunities offered by Localism, and what these mean in reality to communities living in and around small towns and rural parishes.
- Find out more about Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – Buckinghamshire and book here
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Wednesday 29 February – Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning, York
This workshop focused on the Localism Act and what it means in reality to communities living in and around market towns, providing an overview of the new opportunities offered by the Localism Act and Neighbourhood Planning.
- Find out more about ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – York
Wednesday 22 February – Towns Alive: Thriving alongside Supermarkets in Alton, Hampshire
This seminar was NOT about whether supermarkets are a good or a bad thing and nor was it about how to campaign against the building of supermarkets. Instead the focus was on what you can do to help your town centre or high street continue to thrive despite the existence of supermarkets, current and planned.
- Find out more about ‘Towns Alive! Helping your town centre thrive alongside the supermarket’
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Tuesday 7 February – Town Centre Solutions workshop in Clevedon, Somerset
This event provided a unique opportunity for those who work in and on behalf of town centres to learn about an innovative set of solutions, services and ideas which help deliver economic vibrancy.
- Find out more about the Town Centre Solutions workshop here
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Town Centre Solutions workshop in Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire – 29 November 2011
This event offered a unique opportunity for those who work in and on behalf of town centres to learn about an innovative set of solutions, services and ideas which help deliver economic vibrancy.
- Find out more about the Town Centre Solutions workshop here
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Festivals Workshop in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire – 28 September 2011
AMT put on this workshop with North Yorkshire County Council for all those thinking about running a festival to benefit their towns. The event included top tips, pitfalls to avoid and the chance to hear from 3 towns that are already running successful festivals.
- Read more about the Festivals Workshop here
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‘Marketing your community’ workshop, Shepton Mallet, Somerset – 7 June 2011
AMT and Hidden Britain put together this seminar to help small towns and communities increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing. The event included presentations from communities that had already put these marketing tips into action.
- Read more about the ‘Marketing your community’ workshop here
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‘Localism in practice: How can Big Society, localism and the local delivery of services work in practice in our towns?’, Thirsk, North Yorkshire – 18 May 2011
The event tackled Localism and Big Society from a practical point of view, focusing on interpreting the policy, cutting through the jargon and explaining what these concepts are really going to mean for our towns and communities – in particular the potential impact on local delivery of services.
- Read more about the Localism in practice event here
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‘Marketing your community’ workshop in Marlow, Buckinghamshire – 4 May 2011
See below.
- Read more about the ‘Marketing your community’ workshop here
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‘Marketing your community – getting your town or village on the map’ in Offham, West Malling, Kent – 4 April 2011
AMT and Hidden Britain put together this seminar to help small towns and communities increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing. The event included presentations from communities that had already put these marketing tips into action.
- Read more about the ‘Marketing your community’ seminar here
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‘Engaging the business sector in the regeneration of our towns’ in Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire – 29 March 2011
For this event AMT partnered with Telford & Wrekin Council to bring community groups, town councils and partnerships together to discuss the issue of how to engage the business sector in projects to regenerate their towns and to hear and learn from towns where the business sector is successfully engaged in projects to revive and sustain their towns.
- Read more about the‘Engaging the business sector in the regeneration of our towns’ seminar here
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Destination Marketing Workshop in Billingshurst, Sussex – 15 December 2010
This seminar was designed to help small towns and communities increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing, with a special focus on making the most of the opportunities presented by the South Downs National Park.
- Read more about the Destination Marketing Workshop here
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‘Marketing your community – getting your town on the map’ in Stony Stratford – 25 November 2010
AMT and Hidden Britain put together this seminar to help small towns and communities increase visibility and footfall by improving their marketing. The event included presentations from communities that had already put these marketing tips into action.
- Read more about the ‘Marketing your community’ seminar here
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Community Owned Enterprises seminar in Northallerton – 15 November 2010
As shops and pubs close down in towns and rural communities across the country, community ownership is fast becoming the only option. This event gave attendees the inspiration and the tools to put their community owned enterprises into action.
- Read more about the Community Owned Enterprises seminar here
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How to Market Your Town seminar in Thirsk – 15 September 2010
The topic for our September event was a popular one – not only did the event sell out weeks in advance but delegates from towns as far away as Devon joined market towns across Yorkshire to share challenges and solutions for marketing on a small budget. The event focused on tourism/visitor marketing (rather than retail) and was timely given the ongoing closures of Tourist Information Centres which increasingly put the onus on town councils and voluntary organisations to promote their towns.
- Read more about the ‘How to Market Your Town’ seminar here
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Attracting and Retaining Visitors seminar in Malton – 13 May 2010
This seminar was all about helping market towns realise their visitor offer and increase ‘footfall’ of both residents and visitors (from near and far). This was then followed by the marketing event (above) with several towns attending both related events. Fifty delegates attended the event from across the UK to consider the benefits of looking at their town’s ‘offer’, learn about the various tools which could help them identify their town’s ‘market’, and find out which features, events and festivals they already have could attract people to the town. Delegates were shown how to identify their unique selling points from this research, pinpoint products and themes to promote and then develop these themes and projects into an overall vision for the town.
- Read more about the Attracting and Retaining Visitors seminar here
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Dales Market Towns Networking Event, Grassington – 8 March 2010
This networking event was specifically for Market Towns in the Dales area of North Yorkshire. The purpose of the event, which is part of the North Yorkshire Towns Alive programme, was to promote the benefits of towns working together.
- Read more about the Dales Market Towns Networking Event here
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North Yorkshire Towns Alive Local Loyalty Schemes Seminar, Knaresborough – 25 February 2010
The North Yorkshire Local Loyalty Schemes event attracted interest and delegates from across the country. Towns gathered to hear about the successes and problems of existing loyalty card schemes and shared ideas and plans for starting or expanding loyalty schemes in their own towns.
- Read more about the Local Loyalty Schemes seminar here
If you have questions about starting a loyalty scheme, why not check out our AMT Forum where people experienced in developing and running shop local campaigns are waiting to answer your questions.
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North Yorkshire Towns Alive Study Tour, Settle – 11 November 2009
Community activists from market towns in Yorkshire and further afield gathered in Settle, North Yorkshire to study the innovative Settle Hydro Project and the Riverside Improvement Project. The idea was to look at both projects in detail and see what lessons there were for other market towns in devising similar projects for their communities.
- Read more about the Settle Hydro study tour here
- Take part in the renewable energy online AMT Forum
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North Yorkshire Towns Alive seminar ‘Recession busting in market towns’ in Thirsk – 1 July 2009
The Market Towns Seminar in Thirsk, North Yorkshire featured presentations and discussion on Thirsk’s successful community cinema, how to use benchmarking to shape your town’s future, and using online communities to share successful recession busting initiatives between market towns across the country. The day finished with the Yorkshire & Humber Market Town Awards 2009.
- Read more about the North Yorkshire Towns Alive seminar in Thirsk
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Pocklington Study Tour, East Riding of Yorkshire – 26 February 2009
- Read about the Pocklington Study Tour – includes case study of the Pocklington Arts Centre project.
