Download the Operator Handbook and Dr Sara González presentation to the NMTF Conference. This best practice handbook is a practical guide for market operators on how to operate and develop traditional retail markets (TRMs) as community hubs for inclusive economies. Concerns about the gentrification of TRMs have increased in the UK...
On 30th July 2021 Dr Myfanwy Taylor presented a summary of research findings from our three case study markets at NABMA‘s London and South Regional Meeting. The presentation highlighted key findings common to the three markets, such as their importance to lower-income communities, whilst reflecting on each market’s strengths, challenges and...
Three new reports documenting evidence from the Markets4People research project about the wide-ranging economic, social and cultural benefits produced by three of the UK’s largest and strongest traditional retail markets are now published on our website. Building on previous research, the reports bring a new focus on the importance of...
This document sets out the Markets4People research team’s response to Newham Council’s consultation on a capacity and viability study for Queen’s Market and the neighbouring sheltered housing building Hamara Ghar. In November 2020, the Council began a consultation on a draft brief for the study, to inform its thinking on options...
In 2019 we conducted a large-scale survey with 500 customers each at Queen’s Market, Bury Market and Newcastle Grainger Market in order to gain an in-depth and rigorous understanding of markets users’ experiences. A number of market users were also invited to take part in focus groups to help us...
On 27th October our Principal Investigator Sara González took part in the session ‘Creating a community high street’ as part of Ethical Consumer Week 2020. Also presenting and responding to delegates’ questions were Neil McInroy (CEO of CLES), Vidhya Alakeson (founding Chief Executive of Power to Change) and Nicola Round...
Here are two ways to support the markets sector through an incredibly difficult period… Sign the petition: In response to the announcement of a second period of lockdown, industry bodies NMTF and NABMA have launched an urgent campaign for markets to remain fully open, and to have parity with supermarkets...
We are delighted to share the news that the Markets 4 People team recently began a new project to increase the impact of our findings. The University of Leeds ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) will be contributing just under £15,000 for the project ‘Developing best practice for community markets’, with...
Why local markets are key to reviving our locked down town centres Serving local needs. Chris Lawrence Travel / Shutterstock.com Sara González, University of Leeds and Paul Waley, University of Leeds During the early weeks of coronavirus in the UK, there was an obsessive focus on supermarkets and how they...
Across the UK many of our traditional markets remain closed, whilst those which continue to provide essential goods are doing so in conditions many would never have imagined a few short weeks ago. The change has been rapid and whilst some of the examples of best practice highlighted in our...