The Revive & Thrive Challenge Prize Package – The Challenge is over for 2014 (see press release)

In order to demonstrate how a commercial approach can complement the work of Local Authorities and other stakeholders, Revive & Thrive Ltd, the Revive & Thrive Partnership and the Revive & Thrive Business Group and their associated partners and businesses are offering the Revive & Thrive Prize Package

The following package will be designed and delivered, where possible and appropriate, to meet the needs of the winning applicant and is growing almost daily so please keep checking back for updates

To take the first step towards winning this prize package for your town/city/community download the all the documents here but remember the actual Challenge goes live on October 1st. Here are a few ways that you can get involved

The prizes are laid out in no particular order with today’s total prize value for the winning town or city being -

£191,274

If you have the right skills, services or goods to showcase through the Revive & Thrive Challenge, we would love to hear from you. Additionally if you want to sponsor any element of the challenge, please get in touch

NB - The prize package below will be delivered and designed to meet local requirements and the needs of ‘your vision’ as part of The Challenge

Company Name	Prize Description
Company Name	Prize Description
mi city	A digital infrastructure to connect your business community with local consumers and visitors, consisting of: Android Smartphone App iPhone Smartphone App Plus A marketing pack to promote the infrastructure including: Window stickers Beer Mats Posters Flyers Plus Administrative resource to: Help set up the businesses on the platform Validate and optimise the dynamic content over the first 6 months Run the associated social media pages.
City Dressing	A bespoke service to transform the 'Look' of the High Street. 'Look' is a term to describe the visual impression and vitality of a High Street.City Dressing will conduct an audit to list all the areas that can be transformed, top of the list will be empty shops followed by hoarded sites and unsightly buildings. We will devise a plan to address these sites using our virtual graphics on shops and building bannersWorking with our partners we will also devise a media plan to promote local business and the town. This will offer a long lasting legacy. As a visual media company our tools have high impact. These include Digital Shopping Walls on empty shops to support local entrepreneurs, 24/7 shopping blinds to create a 24/7 high street and Information Towers to promote the work of the Revive and Thrive challenge. With City Dressing the impression of the High Street will be transformed with no empty shops, more colour, more choice and a sense of purpose.
Kerching Retail	We are offering a full town centre package for the winning town/city centre Full town review; to form vision for the town Visit all traders in the town centre (based on 300 business), create map of retail mix, review exterior presentation, interior presentation, window displays, uniqueness of product 12 months free membership for all town centre businesses to Kerching online membership resource 2x Retailer workshop 121 support & mentoring for 'High Street Champions' - We regular train and develop businesses, in this instance we are training the trainers.
Made You Look	A full day’s workshop where we will teach the basic points and principles of display. We will give a presentation and demonstration in the morning where retailers will be inspired as to how to create exciting, eye-catching window displays, followed by a hands-on practical workshop in the afternoon The following day we give brief consultations to as many retailers as possible at their own premises Two trainers for two days.
Burrows Little	Urban planning/retail strategy
Revive & Thrive	Minimum one weeks support based on winning application plus 3 months Revive & Thrive Twitter Service
Coality (Diane Cunningham)	Creation of a marketing programme for the winning town. Whether you already have a programme in place and would like to review it's effectiveness or are starting from a blank sheet, we'll help you devise a programme that works
Phil Holloway	Retail Design consultancy for Independant retailer[s]
H Squared Ltd	Digital Screen Window Remote Media
Reward Your World	Set up and supply Reward Your World full platform for minimum 12months with 5 days training
eEngaged	Set up to offer digital solutions for housing providers.eEngaged role with Revive & Thrive is to represent the customers perceptive with any proposed project. We also plan to use our experience to liaise with Registered Social Landlords to develop incentive and rewards initiatives that could be used in the participating High Streets. We are offering the winning bid 15 days work to assist with: Consultations (With business and / or customers), reviewing the availability of additional funding / fundraising, and liaising with local Registered Social Landlords to develop incentives and other promotional opportunities.
Root Solutions/Listening Matters	2 days strategic consultancy (including all travel and accommodation) from 2 of our team plus a direct input on a citizen engagement strategy for 10 people that will enable the building of an active network of people who will directly contribute economically, socially, culturally and environmentally to the redevelopment of a town centre.
Radio Dart	The Radio Dart team will provide 2 full days consultancy and training in Community Engagement and Media Strategy to the Challenge Prize. You're questions about how to use media, with an emphasis on Radio, to give your community a renewed focus and identity to promote economic, social, environmental and cultural development, will be answered. We will use live Radio to show how you can involve people from every part of society to take part with pride in future planning, activities, new projects and business. You will learn how to build your station, your brand, your community network and broadcast strategy.
Community Inspired	Free set up and first year as a Child Safe Zone This will include: Years licence of programme Set up & permission of phone number Launch pack Lost child Procedures Additional charges if required for posters, windows stickers and wristbands
Fabulously Creative	Community website being the "one stop shop" for all local community organisations. Each project will have it's on page on the site with all details and contact information.
Forrester Boyd	Finance Workshops related to smaller retailer accounting services & needs.
Historic Towns Forum	Suite of HTF publications & hosting of Historic Towns Forum seminar in town
Red Border	A ½ day workshop on Merchandising Principles guidelines with information on how to create your own visual merchandising guidelines to ensure that a consistent approach is applied to your store environment irrespective of who is implementing it. Focussing on Merchandising, Marketing and general maintenance of the standards within the store environment; Ideal for if you are employing new staff as part of their training.
Essential Retail	Profile within Essential Retail on the winning entry & write up on Revive & Thrive Challenge Winner and the whole process once complete.
Gumwand	Gumwand machine, delivery and training
Jean Ball	A half day workshop designed and delivered specifically for your town team to help you ‘up your game’, craft brilliant effective projects, attract more funding and secure increased engagement.
Reward Technology	A highly targeted smart RFID card programme that delivers targeted offers and information to ALL types of mobile phone automatically at the right time and in the right place. Prize includes all infrastructure, data reporting and four weeks consultancy on delivering the perfect programme for your residents, visitors and importantly your retailers
Space Qube	A Half day workshop on how to open and run a PopUp shop covering:- Selecting the site; Fitting out the space; Benefits; Staffing; Health & Safety; Managing Content; Marketing; Analysis and Close. This will be a guide to the basic requirements to run a PopUp shop
brandarkade	Either - Placemaking visioning workshop is a 4-5 hour session with the extended project team to explore and define the spirit of the place they are trying to create. We look at customer profiles to understand needs and desires of the user groups, look and competition and best practice and review a number of scenarios to tease of the core attributes, values and unique benefits that the place is offering. Or Stakeholder engagement/ consultation session could take the form of a series of qualitative interviews with key stakeholders to understand ambitions needs and desires – often qualitative interviews are held with local interest groups, local government or project partners. My donation would include up to 12 qualitative interviews with a right up on findings. Alternatively, I could run a focus group with an end user audience to gain insight into specific groups ambitions for the regeneration programme.

Revive & Thrive is available for your high street and community right now. Take a look at the Revive & Thrive Partnership, as well as Who’s Who, the Revive & Thrive Business Group and how to join the Business Group. Also see our testimonials and our free ‘Ask the Partnership’ service

Want to get the best from social media for your community, town or city? See the results that we achieved on Retweet For Towns Day and how the Revive & Thrive Twitter Service could deliver these outcomes to you today

For further information please contact us direct.