Open Consultation: Shaping Community Tech for Places

31/07/2026
12:00 am
- 1:00 am
Online
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  • About the consultation

Help shape YourTown

A practical conversation about how places can build better digital capability together.

YourTown is an emerging Community Tech model designed to help councils, towns and local partners build useful digital services together, while retaining local identity, control and decision-making.

This open consultation is a chance to explore the thinking, challenge the assumptions and help shape a practical model based on shared capability, local ownership and continuous improvement.

  • Topics

What we will explore

During the session, we will introduce the initial YourTown principles and explore practical examples of how shared Community Tech could support:
Local business and service directories
Events, activities and town promotion
Consultations and community participation
Regeneration programmes and project visibility
Business opportunities, funding and procurement
Local news, stories and campaigns
Member, partner and community portals
Shared data, content and reusable digital components
Collaboration between councils, BIDs and local organisations
  • Agenda

A practical, open consultation

We’ll introduce the YourTown thinking, explore real local challenges and identify practical opportunities for councils and partners to shape what happens next.
Welcome and introductions
Why we are holding the consultation and what we hope to learn.
The problem YourTown is exploring
Disconnected services, duplicated investment and the loss of capability between projects.
Introducing the Community Tech model
Built together, owned locally and improved over time.
Practical examples
An early look at the types of components and services that could be shared and adapted.
Open discussion
Where could this model help, where might it create difficulties, and what are we missing?
Priorities and next steps
Identifying potential pilot areas, interested places and subjects requiring further work.
  • Audience

Who should attend?

This session is for councillors, council officers and local partners who are involved in shaping local services, regeneration, economic development and community engagement.
Elected councillors and portfolio holders
Town, parish and community council representatives
Chief executives and senior council officers
Digital, transformation and customer service teams
Economic development and regeneration teams
Communications and engagement teams
Programme and funding managers
Business Improvement Districts and place partnerships
Officers responsible for town centres, communities and local business support

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