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
Tuesday 7 February – Town Centre Solutions workshop in Clevedon, Somerset
This event offers 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 and book here
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Wednesday 22 February – ‘Towns Alive! Helping your town centre thrive alongside the supermarket’ in Alton, Hampshire
This is a joint AMT / South East Rural Towns Partnership (SERTP) event.
This seminar is NOT about whether supermarkets are a good or a bad thing and nor is it about how to campaign against the building of supermarkets.
Instead the focus is on what you can do to help your town centre or high street continue to thrive and even to benefit from the existence of supermarkets, both current and planned.
- Find out more about ‘Towns Alive! Helping your town centre thrive alongside the supermarket’ and book here
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Wednesday 29 February – ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning’ in York
This workshop will focus on the Localism Act and what it means in reality to communities living in and around market towns. We will give you not only the information but also the tools to enable you to apply localism in your own area.
- Find out more about ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – York
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Thursday 8 March – ‘Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning’ - Chesham, Buckinghamshire
This workshop will focus on the Localism Act and what it means in reality to communities living in and around market towns. We will give you not only the information but also the tools to enable you to apply localism in your own area.
- Find out more about Getting to Grips with Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – Buckinghamshire and book here
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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
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.
