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advice on setting up your own market trader business with discounts on market stall pitches and the free loan of equipment. It offers tailor made start-up advice for potential market traders and removes barriers to trading.
Those interested in starting a market stall business can attend a free workshop covering how to plan, structure, research and set up a market stall business. Participants get tips on how best to display goods, look after customers and advice on tax, national insurance and VAT.
Business Link leads the workshops, but staff from the council’s operations department attend them as do existing market traders.
It is a chance for participants to get to know the market managers and fellow traders personally - and to get practical tips such as what to wear in the depths of winter.
Over the past year the Make it your Market programme has run workshops for more than 30 potential traders. Participants in any of the workshops qualify for a number of discounted pitch fees at certain markets in Huntingdon, Ramsey and St Ives.
Make it Your Market was joint winner of the Business and Economy category of the East Action for Market Towns Awards.
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Barnard Castle Vision has transformed a former car showroom into an art gallery, cafeteria and hot-desk work-hub for creative and digital businesses.
NeST Business and Community Hub opened in August 2010. Initially it provided a gallery and cafeteria, followed by hot-desking space for digital and creative businesses.
Later in 2010, NeST became the first rural satellite to Middlesbrough-based DigitalCity Business. The resulting investment in Teesdale businesses is worth £100,000 over two years through a programme of business growth workshops, one-to-one coaching sessions, business surgeries and networking events.
The opening gallery exhibition featured 40 local artists. In January 2011, ArtsBank was appointed gallery operator and is now installing mixed exhibitions with broad appeal, featuring artists from Teesdale and North East England.
The project has proved instantly popular with the community and has already created nine part-time jobs. Through the work-hub, NeST supports 24 rural businesses, five of which are based at NeST.
NeST is a support mechanism to Teesdale’s creative community, many of whom work at home but now have a place to meet, work alongside one another and, if the opportunity arises, collaboratively.
NeST Business and Community Hub won the Business and Economy category of the North Action for Market Towns Awards.
Truly Local is a high street shop that will only sell items that have been made, caught, brewed, reared, baked, grown, fermented, processed or crafted within a 35 mile radius of Stalham. Run by a Community Interest Company, the goal of the shop is to keep the produce and shoppers’ pounds local.
By supporting and promoting local producers and artisans, Truly Local hopes to reduce food miles and the need for huge lorries to use small rural roads, bringing trade back to the high street and keeping jobs and money in the community.
Truly Local has no shareholders and members and the directors’ positions are unpaid. It believes its not-for-profit social enterprise to be the first of its kind in Norfolk if not
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