This week’s AMT Town of the Week is a wonderful riverside town, tourist centre and thriving residential community, located on the banks of the river Great Ouse. Read the description in full and tell us via twitter if you think you know where this town is before we reveal the answer on Friday 10th February.
The 2012 Action for Market Towns National Awards are a chance for you to shout from the rooftops about the work you are doing in your town and to inspire other towns. Be bold, loud, and proud about your achievements! The awards offer recognition for the innovation and creative ideas which many small towns are [...]
Action for Market Towns has launched its 2012 Action for Market Towns National Awards with a challenge to towns and villages to be “bold, proud, and loud” about what they have achieved.
The AMT Awards have become a recognised quality mark for best practice. At a critical time for town centres and high streets, the awards celebrate the innovation and creative ideas which many small towns are using to survive and to thrive.
Sudbury, Suffolk: An historic and thriving market town surrounded by attractive countryside, on the edge of ‘Constable Country’, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which inspired the work of the landscape artist John Constable. Situated on the River Stour and known as the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough’s House is maintained as a gallery and [...]
Hidden Britain and AMT share a passion for promoting rural tourism. Find out how they’re working together.
Creating a welcome for visitors and an outlet for local creativity
A 1970’s style cafeteria within an iconic Grade 2 listed building was converted into an award-winning modern visitor destination, which showcases local products and arts-based businesses.
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