Study Tour
How large businesses can work in small towns - Skipton Building Society
The following is a summary from the study tour on day one of the convention ‘How large businesses can work in small towns - the case of the Skipton Building Society’
Introduction
Skipton Building Society employs over 2,000 people in a town and hinterland with a total population of under 15,000. The Society is committed to its [...]
Market Towns Going Green
The historic Skipton Castle was the setting for this study tour, aimed at highlighting the issues surrounding all of us as we strive to make out towns more environmentally friendly. The session was hosted by Craven District Council and Skipton Town Council and covered topics such as saving water, diverting waste away from landfill sites [...]
Art in the Cattle Mart
Skipton can boast it has the only professional theatre venue based in an auction mart!
Delegates heard about the obvious differences, (smells), between agriculture and the arts and how they have been overcome. They were told about how the project delivers and contributes to the qualitry of life for Skipton and the areas residents.
Download the Skipton [...]
Skipton Canal Waterfront Study Tour
[With thanks to Andrew Laycock for this post]
Introduction
The Skipton Canal Waterfront Study Tour was based on a canal barge on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Following a route through the centre of Skipton in a westerly direction over 50 delegates investigated current and future opportunities for canalside regeneration. During the tour current projects were [...]
Skipton Building Society Study Tour
An interesting session by a large employer in a rural town.
The session was hosted by Gill Davidson, with support from Chris from personnel
The Skipton Building Society today is the 6th largest Building Society ( Mutual) and employs over 2,000 people locally. The majority travel in from under 10 miles, although the catchment area is 25% [...]
Local Food workshop
The Local Food workshop featured a presentation about community-supported-agriculture from Kirstin Glendenning, The Soil Association. The group heard about the project she is involved with in Swillington who have worked hard to turn a derelict plot of land belonging to a local farmer, into a thriving community allotment, growing vegetables and fruit for the community [...]
Renaissance Market Towns Study Tour
This workshop, led by Rhona Pringle - Renaissance Market Towns Manager - gave an insight into Yorkshire Forward’s Renaissance Market Towns (RMT) programme which is an approach to market town regeneration unique to the region. This virtual study tour combined DVD contributions from some of the RMT towns looking at projects and schemes around three [...]
Local Retail workshop
Local Retail workshop featured Charlotte Foster from Plunkett Foundation (ViRSA) and John Longden from Pub is The Hub.
If you attended the Local Retail workshop, we do hope that you found the session engaging and useful.
Here you will find information from the session:
community-shop-handbook
community-shops-management-toolkit
how-to-create-a-community-shop
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