Vision 2020 for Rural Britain - website launches!

Take a look at the incredible collection of contributions made by Skipton delegates on the new website just launched.
The contributions were insightful, imaginative, heartening and innovative.  We posted them on the site for people to read through.  There are over 230 in total, BUT we want more!
Please circulate the website address to colleagues and friends [...]

Tackling National Challenges: Day 2 of Future Choices - Live & Local

Delivering Local Economic Development
Sarah Longlands, Director of Policy, Centre for Local Economic Strategy
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Catch up with John Craven at Future Choices - Live & Local

John Craven spoke enthusiastically about the opportunities and threats for market towns, rural communities and the countryside. We heard from John on day 1 of the event, when he also launched AMT’s new Towns Alive programme.
Watch his speech here:

And we caught up with him after the session to ask him some questions, take [...]

Market Towns of the Future, Rhona Pringle

This plenary session featured Rhona Pringle, Renaissance Market Towns Programme Manager at Yorkshire Forward.
The presentation by Rhona is available below.  You can also hear her talk about market towns of the future when we caught her with her after the session here.
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2008 National Market Towns Awards

The winner of the prestigious 2008 National Market Town Awards was named winners at the Action for Market Towns National Convention in Skipton on 1&2 October see Former pit villages win top market towns award.
Details of all the regional winners of the 2008 National Market Town Awards can be found here.

The Towns Alive Response

The Towns Alive response presented by Chris Wade - Chief Executive, Action for Market Towns includes:

Partnership development training:  The Market Towns Academy
Policy development and research:  The Knowledge Hub
Sharing of good practice:  Towns-4-Towns

For further details email Action for Market Towns
See also Launching Towns Alive for a summary of this exciting new initiative from Action for Market [...]

Hear from Catherine Hammant, Chair of Action for Market Towns

Catherine spoke on day 1 of the event and if you were unable to attend the session, you can watch the video below:

Andy Tordoff - Investing in Yorkshire Spirit

Andy Tordoff, Head of Rural Renaissance at Yorkshire Forward, spoke on day 1 of the event in Skipton Town Hall - if you missed him, you can watch him again below - his presentation is available below also:

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Rural Britain - a 2020 Vision

This exciting and innovative first day main plenary session, hosted by Simon Berry, CEO ruralnet|uk created a bit of a stir.  We weren’t expecting to be writing our thoughts and comments, yet some fantastic ideas and personal visions emerged from a huge number of people. Simon has written his own thoughts on this and other [...]

Former pit villages win top market towns award

The winner of the prestigious 2008 National Market Town Awards is not a chocolate-box-pretty town, but two former pit villages near Sheffield. Kiveton Park & Wales scooped the award - beating seven other regional finalists - for an innovative project which uses e-bay to raise funds for community projects. They were named winners at the [...]