All of us at Revive & Thrive hope that whatever your role, wherever you are working, you are staying safe, following guidelines and doing as much as you can to continue supporting the places that you care about.

With no immediate end in sight to the Covid-19 crisis, our aim is to bring you as much information as we can about what place managers and partnerships around the UK, and indeed around the world, are doing to support their places, the businesses in them and those that visit them.

We have a few interesting stories for you this week – and please do get in touch to let us know how you are supporting your communities at this incredibly difficult time for us all.

Stay safe, everyone.

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BID Events are offering technical support and equipment hire for newly assigned home workers. They have a large stock of IT equipment including software, laptops, macbooks, ipads, iphones, printers, desktop computers and monitors.

They are also offering business continuity plans for those suddenly needing to get staff to work from home.

ShoppAppy, the digital local shopping platform, has re-engineering its tech solution to enable a temporary local delivery to support communities to choose to shop local even if they feel they need to stay at home. They are also encouraging businesses, town and city centre, as well as market, operators to join their digital platform for FREE as the footfall and spending impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic escalates. Contact them to learn more about this.