Welcome to the SMTF website
Who is SMTF?
Somerset Market Towns Forum is a network of market and coastal towns and larger villages across Somerset, sharing good practice of how to regenerate their local communities, as well as sharing issues of common concern and using the Forum to address these with other stakeholders.
The Forum is funded by Somerset County Council, Rural Rennaissance and the Market & Coastal Towns Association (MCTA) and given support by the Community Council for Somerset.
How to use this site
- Each of our Member Towns has a page with links to all of their news items – just click on Member Towns and Villages and select a Member
- Or you can browse by ‘issue’ – ie transport - click on the relevant link on the home page
- Or you use our search facility
Latest News: SMTF to get a Business Plan
Consultants will be appointed shortly to write a new business plan for SMTF. This will review our activities and give a clear vision for our work up to 2012. as part of this process we are organising two identical consultation events on July 11th and 12th. They will run from 10am-3pm and will include lunch and refreshments. If you are involved in regeneration in a rural town or village in Somerset, you may be eligible to attend. Contact Jane Wilson for details.
The locations are:
11th July Crowcombe Village Hall, Crowcombe
12th July Seavington Millennium Hall, Seavington St. Michael, nr Ilminster (close to A303 and A358)