The Vision Group is involved in these crucial aspects of life in the Sid Valley:
Sid Valley Neighbourhood Plan
The SVNP’s Economic Resilience, Community & Culture and Port Royal sections have a lot on promoting art, culture and tourism:
Plus:
Please click on this link to view the Sid Valley Community Actions document.
Town Council Tourism TAFF
In June 2019, the Tourism and Economy Committee looked at an outline Tourism and Promotion Strategy:
To progress the production of a Tourism Strategy based on clear and relevant evidence, it is recommended that a small Task and Finish Forum be created to co-ordinate, draft and recommend such a document to the Tourism and Economy Committee. Such a TaFF could call on advertising specialists, accommodation providers, businesses and other organisations as needed.
Meeting of the Tourism & Economy Committee – Agenda
The committee then “agreed that an informed and targeted strategy was desirable to help promote tourism and better understand visitors to the area.”
Minutes of a Meeting of Sidmouth Town Council’s Tourism and Economy Committee
The Vision Group was asked to contribute evidence to the TAFF – and sent in the following:
STC Tourism & Economy TAFF – Vision Group submission – 24jul19
STC ECONOMY AND TOURISM TAFF – VGS EVIDENCE – JULY 2019 – ethical and responsible tourism
SID VALLEY NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN – BUSINESS GROUP – EVIDENCE – jw – 18dec16
Tourism
The UK government’s “First tourism sector deal will prepare Britain for an extra 9 million visitors per year” was announced in June 2019:
PM announces new tourism sector deal
Festivals
In 2017, the various festivals across the Valley were brought together:
Making Sidmouth a Festival town
Several of these festivals feature on the home page of the VGS website:
And among the commercial festivals:
Sidmouth Food Festival
There are other ideas out there – inspired by projects elsewhere:
Here is a great overview of all the festivals, produced as a leaflet by the parish church:
Heritage
From the news pages and the archive:
Celebrating Sidmouth’s heritage
Sidmouth heritage: Sidholme Hotel
East Devon’s local heritage list
East Devon Guide for listing local heritage assets
Devon Heritage project named UK’s best
Working the Sea: the story of Sidmouth’s fishing heritage
Money available for Historic High Streets
2012 Application to English Heritage for listing of Knowle
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