New help for markets to assess their performance and contribution to the local economy
This article gives you another reason to come to our free market town seminar in Market Harborough. The tool this CLG press release profiles was developed in part from research there. Come and see the market for yourself on 19 August. You can book via events@sparse.gov.uk The article tells us:
The new guidance ‘Assessing the Financial Performance of Your Market’ is available on the Nabma website. It is designed to enable market managers to better assess and demonstrate the benefits that markets can bring to the local economy and retail offer.
The guidance is designed to be read in conjunction with individual reports produced by ROI Team, in association with Nabma, examining the performance of 6 different markets, including Plymouth City Market. The other markets were Ashton-under-Lyne, Keswick, Poulton-le-Fylde, Market Harborough and Kingston-upon-Thames Ancient Market. These reports (with the exception of Keswick) were published on 23 June 2015, and are available on the Nabma website.
The department supports ‘Love Your Local Market’, a celebration of market culture that happens over a fortnight in May each year. In 2015 a record number of 1,200 places took part and over 3,800 market events were held over the fortnight.