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Team Norfolk’s High Streets Matter is passionate about keeping our high streets vibrant places to visit, shop and enjoy leisure activities. Norfolk County Council created the High Streets Matter initiative and the team is delivering this project through the Retail Excellence Programme, Love Your Market Place grant funding, town visits and expert retail support. Visitors and customers want to spend time together, buy their daily or weekly goods, explore our beautiful towns and access services. We are looking to help create experiences while serving those needs.

Let us introduce you to the team!

Fabian is an auctioneer and valuer by profession and is a Fellow of the Livestock Auctioneers Association. Having the experience running his own business, he has first-hand knowledge of developing and managing a company.

Cllr Fabian Eagle

Cabinet Member for Economic Growth & County Councillor for The Brecks Division

Ian Gregory is Market Town Manager at Norfolk County Council, where he leads the strategic coordination and delivery of business support programmes for 24 market towns.

Ian Gregory

Market Town Manager

Alexandra has built a career as a passionate leader of retail operations and strategy.

Alexandra Hemen

High Growth Adviser

‘I found this programme very beneficial in many ways, taking the time out of my day-to-day to open my mind to where we could improve our business, what things aren’t working in our business and how we can invest in new ways to make our business grow.
‘I’ve been introduced to many great businesses that could help us in areas we struggle in and also hearing other small businesses’ struggles similar to ours and how they have/ plan to overcome this. From this course, we have decided what we need to do next to invest in our business to help it grow and achieve more sales.’

Fay Bunn, Noor Company5 stars (Retail Excellence Programme)

‘Completed Love Your High Street training which has been extremely valuable, thank you for such a comprehensive course.’

Little Movers5 stars (Retail Excellence Programme)

‘We attended the Retail Excellence Programme and it has been the most valuable and insightful course I’ve ever done. Alex and all of the speakers were incredibly knowledgeable, and generous with their time and advice. We’ve already received more online shop sales since we’ve started to implement what we’ve learnt. We massively recommend it to all businesses in Norfolk!’

The Wayward Adventurers Guild5 stars (Retail Excellence Programme)

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