Now, with help from Action for Market Towns’

‘Town Alive’ programme, grants are available to help towns share their good ideas and practical projects with each other.

It is called Towns-4-Towns – and here is how it works. Applications for a grant involve a ‘tutor’ town – which has a successful project it wishes to share – and one or more ‘learner’ towns who are keen to implement the scheme locally.

Dozens of great projects are recognized every year through the National Market Town Awards – from loyalty shopping cards to using e-bay to support community projects. The Towns-4-Towns grants will help the people who devised these projects spread their ideas nationwide, thereby helping the vitality of all our small towns.

The maximum grant is £500 to cover 40% of project costs. The Towns Alive programme is funded  by the Big Lottery Fund.

For more information and an online application form, go to: Towns4Towns grants