
Build Your Own TestTown
Pop-ups to imagine and create your future place

Download your Build Your Own TestTown Manual
Upon clicking the icon to the right, the manual will open in a new window. Alternatively you can order a hard copy of the manual here.

Support your own emerging town centre and high street entrepreneurs
The idea is simple. towns and education providers make available their vacant spaces, training and support to young businesses to test out their ideas in pop-up shops in town centers. In return, young businesses offer their talent, creativity, and energy to allow towns to test future high street and town center solutions.
TestTown Overview
Why Do It?
A TestTown event can be a transformative experience for the host towns and the young businesses who take part. It allows people to look at their town centre differently, for considering and implementing different kinds of solutions and innovation. Each TestTown event is unique -this is as much down to the people involved as the physical space they are hosted in. The unifying factor all of these people have in common is the passion for their place.
TestTown Stories
TestTown events have been hosted in places across the UK and Ireland, supporting and giving opportunities to many emerging town center entrepreneurs. They share their stories here.
Be Inspired