YourTown has opened Founding Stewardship for a small number of places.
This is the point at which an idea becomes something shared.
YourTown exists to address a simple problem many places recognise: towns do not lack digital activity, but they do keep rebuilding the same basic systems in isolation. Over time, that duplication creates fragility, repeated cost, and avoidable risk.
The first practical step in doing this differently.
Rather than funding yet another standalone website or platform, Founding Stewards help establish a shared digital approach that can be reused, governed, and improved over time. The emphasis is not on features or quick wins, but on building capability that lasts.
This phase is deliberately limited.
It is designed to bring together a small number of early contributors who want to help shape how shared local digital infrastructure is stewarded, owned, and sustained in practice.
Importantly, Founding Stewardship is not a pilot, a software purchase, or a grant-funded project. It is a bounded commitment focused on governance, continuity, and learning how shared capability can work for places with different needs.
For councils, BIDs, and place partnerships who are increasingly aware that current approaches are not compounding value, this offers a structured way to explore an alternative without over-commitment.
Details of how Founding Stewardship works, what it involves, and how decisions are made are set out in the Founding Stewardship pack, which is shared on request to support proper internal consideration.
This is a quiet opening by design. The focus at this stage is on getting the model right before making it visible.
