Sky News coverage for AMT / Towns Alive

I’ve been supporting national charity Action for Market Towns (AMT) with communications, press, event organising, membership development and external affairs work since 2011. AMT could be given the alternative name “Action for Market Towns, small towns, large towns, high streets, neighbourhoods, cities, coastal and seaside towns” – that would be a bit of a mouthful […]

Interview with BBC Radio Shropshire

A good start to the week with a 7.30am interview today with BBC Radio Shropshire, on behalf of Action for Market Towns. You can listen to the interview, on town centre policies and support, here (starts at 1:36:30 – and won’t be available after the end of this week).

It’s a YES for Sheffield Local TV

Fantastic news: Sheffield Local Television (SLTV) has been awarded the licence to operate Sheffield’s first digital local television channel. The decision, taken by communications regulator Ofcom, follows 20 months of campaigning. Sheffield Local Television represents a consortium of Sheffield-based organisations launched in 2011 and led by Community Media Solutions Ltd (CMS), a Sheffield-based media development […]

TV and radio coverage for AMT

Really busy week with my client Action for Market Towns. Their annual convention took place in the lovely Shropshire market town of Ludlow last Thursday: pretty much every hotel and B&B in the town was fully booked, and we reckon the event injected well over £100,000 into Ludlow’s economy. The convention marked the launch of […]

Commissioning: ask for RHITA!

Who’s RHITA? You may well ask. You’re on a website built by Jamie, after all. And the only middle name I’m aware of having is Stuart. RHITA isn’t my name – it’s an acronym for a set of attributes I try to live by in my professional (and personal) life. Reliability. Honesty. Integrity. Tenacity. Attitude. […]