Love Your Market Town grant

Create and deliver unique projects to celebrate your market towns, engage communities, increase footfall and raise awareness of our High Streets.

The Love Your Market Town grant scheme is available to eligible applicants in the following Suffolk Towns for 2026/2027: Beccles, Brandon, Mildenhall, Stowmarket and Sudbury.

Grants available from £1,000 to £5,000 (up to 100% funding).

Eligible applicants: town councils, local businesses and community groups in rural market towns.
Projects are to be completed by the end of December 2027.

Timeline

Expression of Interest (EoI) forms accepted from 2 November 2026 through to 7 December 2026
Full applications accepted until 11 January 2027
Independent panel will review applications week commencing 1 February 2027
Applicants will be notified of their outcome by 12 February 2027
Projects to be delivered from February 2027 to December 2027

How do I apply for funding?

Interested applicants will need to submit an initial EoI form to the High Streets Matter team via shsm@newangliagrowthhub.co.uk. A form can be downloaded here.

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Successful projects

The fund has supported several projects in Norfolk already and we are delighted to roll it out in Suffolk. Find out more about the awarded projects.

Watch our video with some of the awarded projects and more details about each as follows.

Revitilising Diss Town Centre

Thomas Paine Treasure Hunt

Thetford Treasure Trails

Gingerbread models of local shops

Attleborough in Bloom: A Journey Through History

Spend a Penny – facilities leaflet

‘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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Successful projects

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

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