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NABMA is delighted with the feedback from our one day conference last week held at our new venue, the Macdonald Burlington Hotel. Thank you for the excellent feedback. Comments included “Great venue and facilities and the convenience of the hotel to the station was excellent” “Very well organised, great presentations throughout the conference” “Well managed conference and proud to be part of it” Coverage of the conference and the Great British Market Awards on social media has been wonderful to view so thank you for all the interactions and a big thank you to the NABMA media team at Square Cactus . Full details of the Great British Awards are on our website including details of all winners, citations, picture gallery and quotations from NABMA for use in your press releases.Please clickThe Great British Market Award Winners are Revealed including Britain’s Favourite Market – NABMA Once again, a sincere thank you from the NABMA team to everyone that attended and played a part in making this conference a very special occasion as we continue the journey out of Covid.

With Future High Street, Towns Funds, Heritage Action Zones and Levelling up there is an immense amount of grant funding about which is distributed by the Government.I am curious to discover how many markets are benefiting from these streams of investment into our local areas?

Good morning all, so great to meet lots of you in person yesterday!It was really useful to be able to chat and answer some of your questions about food safety, but one in particular kept coming up, so I thought it might be useful to pop it in here.A number of you asked about the expiry periods of Level 2 and Level 3 food hygiene certificates. According to law, food business operators must ensure that food handlers receive the appropriate supervision and training in food hygiene, which is in-line with the area they work in and will enable them to handle food in the safest way. There is no LEGAL requirement to renew within a specified time period. We would RECOMMEND that certificate holders renew their training every three years, to keep up with changes in best practice and legislation, and we send reminders to our learners to this effect. An EHO will be interested to understand how a food business ensures its staff’s training is refreshed and current . However, food hygiene certificates do not have an enforceable ‘expiration date’ (although these can be employed as a sales tactic by some training companies!)Hope this helps – happy to elaborate further if needed.Clarewww.thesaferfoodgroup.com

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The government has published its long awaited White Paper on Levelling Up. It includes twelve separate “Missions” to improve the environments and living standards of many parts of the country.  Much of the focus of the White Paper is on devolution and building on the Regional Authorities and Mayors that already exist so in the next ten years we might see significant changes to the structure of local authorities and how powers are discharged. The government is keen to improve town centres with sixty eight additional local authorities benefitting from support from the High Street Task Force. This is one specific area where Markets can look to secure extra resources. The link to the White Paper is as follows: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-the-united-kingdom

Epping Town Council have raised an interesting question –  “Can you please advise if any charter markets have been recognised on site by a blue plaque?” English Heritage operate the scheme to commemorate a link between a location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, but NABMA would also be interested to know of any such recognition for UK markets.

NABMA is delighted to welcome Edge IT Systems as our latest sponsor.Established in 1989, EDGE IT Systems has gained itself a reputation in both UK and other European countries in deploying and supporting quality customer information management systems as well as value added software development and system integration applications.The company are launching their cloud based, administration software, called AdvantEDGE Markets, at our annual conference on Thursday at Birmingham.Founder of the company Chris Edge says “ There is good news for MACCS Users as EDGE are familiar with the problems faced by MACCS users, and  we are offering a 50% discount on the first year’s subscription for the first 5 clients in 2022 in return for a little collaboration with our experienced team. Click here for full details including pricing and procurement without having to go to tender”.Chris Edge adds “We have 30 years’ experience supplying local government, and EDGE are the largest cloud provider to UK crematoria for administration software including online bookings, apps, and mapping”.NABMA Chief Executive, David Preston said “We are delighted to welcome Chris Edge and his team to NABMA. The company bring knowledge, experience and a quality reputation to our industry and we look forward to working with Edge IT Systems in the months ahead”.Click here to view the 1st edition of Market Software News.Conference delegates can meet Chris Edge and Andrea Rowley from EDGE on Thursday, or contact them via 024 7666 7337 or info@edgeITsystems.com

One of our sponsors EDGE IT Systems are launching their cloud based, administration software, called AdvantEDGE Markets, at our annual conference on Thursday. Click here for full details including pricing and procurement without having to go to tender. EDGE are familiar with the problems faced by MACCS users, and they are offering a 50% discount on the first year’s subscription for the first 5 clients in 2022 in return for a little collaboration with their experienced team. They have 30 years’ experience supplying local government, and EDGE are the largest cloud provider to UK crematoria for administration software including online bookings, apps, and mapping. You can meet Chris Edge and Andrea Rowley from EDGE on Thursday, or contact them via 024 7666 7337 or info@edgeITsystems.com