Howdenshire Forward Introduction

The area of Howdenshire was selected in 2004-05 to be one of the market towns in the Renaissance Market Town Programme, run by Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency.

The aim of the programme is to develop a long term plan to maintain and develop sustainable economies in key market towns, and aims to ensure that they are places where people want to live, work, invest in and visit.

The programme for each market town is driven by an agreed strategy and co-ordinated by a local partnership made up of public, private and community sector representatives, which in this case is the Howdenshire Forward Partnership. To keep the Partnership focused on delivering the strategy, an Annual Action Plan will be produced to set out how it plans to deliver the different elements of the strategy over the coming year.

By being involved with Yorkshire Forward's Renaissance Market Town Programme, the area of Howdenshire can benefit from the production of a long term strategy for improving the area, the expertise of consultants and of Yorkshire Forward in delivering this strategy and the possibility of investment of over £1,000,000 in the area from Yorkshire Forward and other funding sources.

Forthcoming Meetings and Events

- 5 June- Great Messages Workshop - 6.00pm at Howden Customer Service Centre.  FREE workshop on branding and logo development.  Contact us to book your free place.

- 9 June - Public Spaces Action Group meting - 6.30 at Howden Customer Service Centre - click here for more details.

- 12 June - Tourism Group Meeting - 6.30pm at Howden Customer Service Centre - click here for more details.

Bulletin Update

To see the May 2008 update on our project progress, click here

Website address

Please note that due to a production error, the Howdenshire Forward leaflet, distributed in March 2007 lists the wrong website address for this site. To correct this, we have set up a link from the incorrect address to re-direct here for a period of time. Please note however that for future use, the correct address for this website is www.howdenshireforward.co.uk