Glasgow Saltmarket 2016

Capturing The Moment

As part of our aim for TestTown to be a constantly evolving and developing initiative, documenting the events and feedback for learning has been one of the priorities for the Carnegie UK team. Using our existing experience and skills in video-making we have worked with a number of professional and non-professionals to create a number of short films over the years. At the Grand Final in 2016, we decided to experiment with social video and aimed to produce a short film a day to be shared through our social media channels as the week developed.

“At the Grand Final in 2016, we decided to experiment with social video and aimed to produce a short film a day to be shared through our social media channels as the week developed.”

We did this in partnership with GMAC Film ( www.gmacfilm.com ), a skills, talent and project development centre in Glasgow. Between the TestTown team and GMAC staff we supported a young filmmaker, David Cherry to join us for the week and film the activities and events as they happened. Not only did these films help showcase and promote TestTown Glasgow Saltmarket during the week it was held, we have also been left with a fantastic record of films which can now support this ‘Build Your Own TestTown Guide.’

Watch all of our TestTown films here: TestTown Youtube

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Words of Advice

  • You will never learn what we have learned this week in a college room or in a lecture hall, from a book or off the internet – it’s a real life experience and it has been invaluable.

    TestTown 2015 Participant

  • I would advertise the event on local radio stations and also in the local newspaper to create local interest in the town to raise awareness of the event. As not everyone who shops in the town uses the internet.’

    TestTown 2015 Participant

  • The younger generation is the future, so spending the time to encourage them to care and solve problems regarding the high street is a wonderful step forward.

    TestTown 2014 Participant

Highlights from the recent years

Five Ways To Supercharge Your TestTown

We believe there are five things which would Supercharge your TestTown:

  1. Every town should create a clear, supported pathway into trading and opening up a shop  for new town centre entrepreneurs.
  2. Every town should have a permanent pop-up facility in a viable trading space which offers flexible lease arrangements up to a year for new town centre entrepreneurs to learn.
  3. Every town should work, within their means, to reduce financial barriers in reduced rates and rents for new traders during their first year of business.
  4. Every town should carry out a regular (every five years) entrepreneur-led consultation which would feed into a business-led strategy for town centre development and business support.
  5. Every town should develop a hyperlocal cross-sector partnership to lead local innovation, ensuring that agencies, businesses, and residents are all powerful in leading local development.