Events with Shops.

I have contacted Alan Deadman who runs the Sharrow fringe Festival about work with local shops along london road. This is his reply:

"Yes, a few years ago when I started the Fringe I raised £20,000 from the Arts Council for 2 years worth of Fringe Festival: this enabled us to employ a number of community arts development workers to develop creative projects together with many of the local shops (Ruth & Trish were 2 of the workers): it worked very well but was of course resource intensive; if there are any ideas to beef up the Fringe Festival next year (likely to be 4th July - 18th, one side of it that I do want to big up next summer is the film element.
Alan"