Understanding and Enhancing the Community Value of Traditional Retail Markets in UK Cities

Understanding & Enhancing the Community Value of Traditional Retail Markets

Traditional markets have played a significant role in the UK’s towns and cities for centuries but their central community role is threatened by radical changes in retail trends and public sector cuts. Our study aims to provide a new way to understand the community value which traditional markets offer.

Understanding Community Value

We are listening to market traders, operators, campaign groups and other experts from the traditional markets sector to gain insights into how community value is currently understood.

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Maximising Impact

In order to achieve real impact, researchers from the University of Leeds and the Open University are working alongside experts from NMTF and the New Economics Foundation.

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We are reviewing policy, public and academic discourse on traditional markets and interviewing policy makers and key figures within the sector.

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Follow our progress

Regular updates will be posted on our blog or you can follow us on Twitter @markets4people.

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Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, our study runs from February 2018 to August 2020. Our findings will be published on this website as the project progresses and details of our latest activities will be posted on the blog. You can also follow the project on Twitter @markets4people.

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Introducing our Steering Group

Introducing our Steering Group

Tuesday 11 December 2018

Our project activities in November included the first meeting of our Steering Group, made up of academics and experts in...

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Campaigners’ perspectives on the community value of markets

Campaigners’ perspectives on the community value of markets

Monday 26 November 2018

Myfanwy Taylor On Monday 12 November, 17 market campaigners from London and beyond gathered together to give us their views...

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Report Launch

Report Launch

Tuesday 13 November 2018

We are delighted to announce the launch of our first project report, ‘Measuring the Value of Traditional Retail Markets: Towards a Holistic...

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Announcing our case study markets!

Announcing our case study markets!

Tuesday 6 November 2018

Since our project began in February a major focus for our activities has been to select the three UK general...

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