The Ormskirk Has Got The Edge support video - Three years on from the Mary Portas Pilot town bid.

The Ormskirk Has Got The Edge video, first produced in 2012, has been updated with subtitles for the hearing impaired and for speakers of English as a foreign language.

I originally filmed this video back in March 2012.  It was a week before the deadline to submit the bid proposal to the Portas Pilot scheme and the video was originally filmed to form part of the bid proposal.  More on that later!  The video was shot very quickly and came together thanks to the support and help of it's many contributors.

Three years on and I am in the process of adding subtitles to all the travel videos, holiday video diaries, community stories and interviews on my Life In Another Town YouTube channel.  While typing the transcription of the dialogue in the video and repeatedly having to watch the video again and again, it caused me to think back to that time and contemplate where we are now, three years later.  Now the shouting and fanfare has died down, what has been achieved?

Ormskirk Mary Portas High Street Pilots Funding Bid Interview with Ormskirk Town Team member Katie Givens March 8th 2012

Ormskirk, an historic market town in West Lancashire is preparing its bid for a share of the £1 million up for grabs in the Mary Portas High Street Pilots Bid competition.

Katie Givens, shop owner in Ormskirk and a leading light (my words not Katie's) of the new Ormskirk Town Team, talks about the state of the Ormskirk high street and the way ahead for its regeneration.

At the end of the interview, I take a look around Ormskirk to get an idea of the local battleground upon which the fate of the Ormskirk high street is being fought.  The Ormskirk high street is becoming littered with closing down signs in various shop windows, while elsewhere around the town a few dogged entrepeneurs are bravely opening new businesses.

Katie Givens at the Ormskirk Town Team meeting March 8th 2012

If the local economy is to once again thrive, then local residents, existing retailers, new entrepeneurs and the council must ally themselves together to first plan and then deliver a coherent strategy for the future success of Ormskirk.

Have you got something to say about the future of the Ormskirk high street?  Please comment below.

If you have something to offer in the way of ideas or time and you want to be a part of the Town Team, then get in contact with Katie Givens at Pandora's Box on Telephone 01695 577881

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Ormskirk Mary Portas High Street Grant Bid Meeting March 2012

Ormskirk Mary Portas High Street Grant Bid Meeting March 2012

Ormskirk retailers, business people, residents, students, West Lancashire Mayor and local goverment representatives came together on Thursday 8th March 2012 at The Green Rooms to discuss how to revitalise the Ormskirk High Street and to go forward with the Mary Portas High Street Grant Bid.

Ormskirk Mary Portas High Street Grant Bid Meeting March 2012

Mary Portas and the Local Government Minister launched a competition on February 4th 2012 to choose 12 towns to become 'Portas Pilots', with the winners benefiting from a share of £1 million to help turn around their "unloved and unused" high streets.

Do you support the Ormskirks bid for a share of the Mary Portas High Street Grant?  Can you help with the bid?  Please Telephone Katie Givens on 01695 577 881

Do you have some community news to share or a story to tell? Yes!

Please contact Life In Another Town