Fiona Bruce congratulates her Constituency’s Town Partnerships on securing national Market Town’s Convention
The Annual Action for Market Towns Convention will be held on the 6th and 7th November and this year the honour of hosting the important Market Towns event has been given to not one, but five communities in the Congleton Constituency.
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| Fiona Bruce MP with Chris Wade of AMT in Parliament discussing plans for the Convention |
The Partnerships of Congleton, Sandbach, Holmes Chapel, Middlewich and Alsager joined together recently to successfully bid to host the 2013 Action for Market Towns Convention. The arrival of the Market Towns Convention will help to showcase all that this area has to offer in terms of its retail and business opportunities.
This successful bid follows Sandbach and Alsager being awarded Town Team Partner status along with a grant of £10,000 to improve the High Street and will be supported by the five partnerships.
Fiona Bruce MP, who strongly supported the bid for this prestigious annual event to be held in her constituency said
“I am thrilled that my Constituency has been chosen to host this important Convention. I cannot think of better people and places to act as hosts for this prestigious national event which will draw people from market towns right across the country. Simply having been chosen to act as host shows how our communities are regarded as leadership exemplars and is a tribute to the joint working of the strong Partnerships in all five communities. I hope that the delegates who attend will see what I do, an area with a thriving community spirit, forward thinking, with dedicated and inspiring community leaders, that works together to promote and strengthen both the business and social communities. This is a wonderful opportunity for the five communities, Alsager, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Middlewich and Sandbach that are involved and I look forward to what I know will be a hugely successful convention.”
Events and workshops will be held in each of the towns. The five partnerships will also share their knowledge of becoming an active Town Team in special Convention sessions.
Previous Conventions have generated over £100,000 for the economy of host towns. The 2012 Convention brought delegates from all over the UK and even the BBC television cameras!
Chris Wade, Chief Executive of Action for Market Towns, said:
“With strong proposals received from all bidders, the decision of host town for the 2013 Convention was tougher than ever. With towns all over the UK needing to develop strong Town Teams and Partnerships, the superb proposal from Congleton’s five Town Partnerships will enable the Convention to showcase how five thriving, distinct but collaborative, community led Partnerships were established.
“Town Teams, Partnerships, Town and Parish Councils and Local Authorities of all sizes must come to visit these towns in Cheshire East in November to learn how to create thriving partnerships and pickup other new ideas to sustain and develop their towns and high streets.”
