The Market Town Welcome project set out to help the town and its tourism businesses to develop a strong identity for Guisborough. The work has been tailored to fit with the emerging plans for investment and improvements arising from the Guisborough Retail Distinctiveness Project, and was be co-ordinated by Guisborough Market Town Partnership with support from recar and Clevelnd Borough Council.

To support the process a Leadership Group was formed from local stakeholders,  including representatives from the local council, the local tourism association, heritage groups and local tourism and retail businesses.Other interested bodies such as North York Moors National Park also attended.

The first meeting of the leadership group took place on Tuesday 4th November 2008 and a press article about the event can be downloaded by clicking on this link. More information about the event will be available in the downloads section of the website.

The second and third events took place as follows:

• Wider Workshop: 25th November 2008, 5:30pm @ The Ship Inn

Business Planning Workshop: 9th December 2008, 5:30pm @ The Ship Inn

Main contact for the Group is Dennis Weller, who may be contacted at d.weller@sky.com

 

Once the plans are finalised, the Leadership Group will continue to meet to implement projects and to ensure that the wider Vision for Guisborough takes account of the Market Town Welcome plan.

 

Our thanks to the proprietors of the Ship Inn for their excellent hospitality throughout this project - you have made us all feel very welcome and have undoubtedly helped to bring people along.

We hope that this website will develop as an online community during the course of the project. Feel free to use the discussion forum to give us your thoughts.

Post your digital photos on the site. Show us what you like or dislike about Guisborough. What would you show visitors? What would you steer them away from? What makes you proud of your town? Whether you have a full professional kit or a mobile phone, we want to see your images.

 

       
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