Action for Market Towns Awards 2008

Announcing the winners of our 2008 Action for Market Towns Awards

The national winner for 2008 was not a chocolate-box-pretty town, but two former pit villages near Sheffield.

Kiveton Park & Wales scooped the award for an innovative project which uses e-bay to raise funds for community projects.

Kiveton Park & Wales were one of 150 projects from a diverse group of towns throughout England, from traditional market towns to former mill towns.

The projects varied from boosting local business to creating green energy, and from developing a new town vision to making artificial snow to encourage Christmas shopping.

What they all have in common is that they involved hard work by local volunteers working in partnership.

Read more about this year’s overall winner of the National Market Town Awards.

Market Towns Review – Awards edition

AMT members can download a special issue of Market Towns Review here with details of all the winners.

Market Town Awards Regional Winners

The 2008 Market Town Awards attracted some fantastic entries from across the 8 UK regions.

We are delighted to announce the winners and overall winner for each region.

Here are our worthy winners:

East Midlands Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: Sleaford BID
Lead organisation: Sleaford Town Council
Also winner of the Business and Economy category

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Shop Smart, Shop Local
Lead organisation: High Peak Borough Council

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: The Mill Wheels Restoration Project
Lead organisation: Bourne Civic Society

East of England Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: The Triple Whammy
Lead organisation: Walton Forum
Also winner of the Social and Community category

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: The Lozenge
Lead organisation: Community Reach Partnership, Brightlingsea

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Swaffam Community Centre
Lead organisation: Iceni Partnership, Swaffam

Winner of the Business and Economy category
Project: Shaping Metfield
Lead organisation: Harleston Information Plus

North East Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: The Forum Cinema, Hexham
Lead organisation: Hexham Community Partnership
Also winner of the Business and Economy category

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Barnard Castle Vision
Lead organisation: Teesdale District Council

Winner of the Social and Community category
Project: Wooler Work Web
Lead organisation: The Glendale Gateway Trust

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: Haltwhistle Burn Restoration
Lead organisation: Haltwhistle Partnership Ltd

North West Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: World’s largest hotpot
Lead organisation: Garstang and District Partnership
Also winner of the Environment and Culture category

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Revitalising Chorley Markets
Lead organisation: Chorley Council

South East Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: Snow in Hythe at Christmas
Lead organisation: Waterside Business Partnership and RevitalHythe
Also winner of the Business and Economy category

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Explore the Market Towns of Horsham District Passport/leaflet scheme
Lead organisation: Horsham District 5 Towns Partnership

Winner of the Social and Community category
Project: Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival
Lead organisation: Hayling’s BEST

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: Regeneration of Meades Water Gardens, Chesham
Lead organisation: Chesham Community Vision

South West Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: The Watermark
Lead organisation: Ivybridge Town Council
Also winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category

Winner of the Business and Economy category
Project: ‘Buy Local’ – promoting locally made products in the Warminster community area
Lead organisation: Warminster and Villages Community Partnership (WVCP) Economy and Tourism (E&T) Group

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: Christmas in Westbury
Lead organisation: Westbury Town Council

Winner of the Social and Community category
Project: Fairford Community Centre Project
Lead organisation: Fairford Town Council

West Midlands Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: Adult and Community Mobile IT
Lead organisation: John Kyrle High School Adult and Community Learning Centre
Also winner of the Social and Community category

Winner of the Business and Economy category
Project: Redundant Building Grant scheme (Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Solihull)
Lead organisation: Staffordshire County Council

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: Ross Live!
Lead organisation: Ross Live!

Winner of the Partnership and Strategic Working category
Project: Taking Stourport Forward Together
Lead organisation: Stourport Forward Board and Partnership

Yorkshire & Humber Market Town Awards

Overall Winner
Project: Trading on e-bay for the community
Lead organisation: Kivo-ebiz Ltd (a trading arm of Kiveton Park & Wales Community Development Trust)
Also winner of the Business and Economy category

Winner of the Environment and Culture category
Project: Ure walks through time
Lead organisation: Yore Vision

Winner of the Business and Economy category
Project: The Station, Richmond
Lead organisation: Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust Limited