Posts in category: Fighting for the Future

The government has today launched the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund.

NABMA has requested that, as an urgent measure, the guidance for markets be revisited

NABMA has been working with various elected members of parliament and officials throughout the lockdown period

NABMA has secured confirmation from the government that Indoor Markets can now open with an extended range of goods businesses / stalls that are in the exempt section of the latest advice.

“I completely agree with you about the important role that markets have played in the life of town centres”

National survey of markets that offered the information to evidence the five points of the NABMA Support Plan

As many markets are considering how they will recommence trading at the appropriate time, then to assist that discussion NABMA has produced an initial set of guidelines.

Within the NABMA Support Plan for Market we are again reiterating that help is urgently required on the issue of business rates.

NABMA is delighted that a priority set within its five point Support Plan for Markets, as communicated to government, has been recognised with the announcement that a discretionary fund has been set up to accommodate certain small businesses previously outside the scope of the business grant funds scheme.

This afternoon NABMA has received an email from government sources describing its recent updates on its work programme and press release on the fragility of markets as “incredibly helpful.”