A project to create activities and places for young people to meet in a Warwickshire town scooped the overall West Action for Market Towns Award.
Conway Fields Youth and Community Project is a series of long and short term schemes designed to provide premises suitable for young people and for intergenerational activities in Alcester.
Something to do In 2009 a group of detached young people attended a Warwickshire County Council and Stratford District Council West Area Committee meeting to give a presentation on their need for “something to do”. This impressive presentation had an impact on the town, district and county councils and successful applications were made for grants [...]
Making history for Church Stretton A collaborative community project, combining local, voluntary expertise with professional skills, has made the heritage of this beautiful market town come alive for both residents and visitors, reinforcing local community identity and civic pride and boosting the local tourism economy. The project came out of the Better Welcome Programme, run [...]
Innovative self-employment scheme for disadvantaged people wins top market town award in the West Midlands An innovative scheme to help disadvantaged people set up their own businesses has won the West Midlands regional prize in the prestigious Market Town Awards and will now go head-to-head with projects from seven other regions in the National Market [...]
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