As of Spring 2025, Todconnect has now closed and this website will go offline in October 2025 when the domain name registration and hosting expire. Until then, here is a sample of what it achieved in its lifetime…

 

– Held approx. 20 meetings in the first two years since foundation in Jan 2018 until the start of the Covid pandemic in early 2020

– Helped to drive the Great British High Street 2018 campaign – which the town won

– Led an extended campaign to help businesses ‘get online’ and become more digitally aware

– Helped to create and launch the ‘There’s MORe in TodMORden’ campaign

– Shared relevant information forwarded by the council, or from other organisations and sources

– Shared information about grants and loans etc throughout Covid 19. Overall, 54 emails were sent in 2020 and 17 in 2021.

(During the early months of the pandemic we connected several business owners directly to council staff to process their grants. Some were at the end of their tether both financially and emotionally by the time they got in touch).

– Initially held a position on the Town Deal Board upon its outset, as representation for local businesses

– (Successfully) lobbied the council for the extension of Christmas Lights in the Town Centre from 2022

– Facilitated a meeting with the Project Managers of two of the largest and ‘most contentious’ projects of the Town Deal for local business owners to voice their opinions (June 2022)

– Played a substantive role throughout 2024 in campaigning and lobbying to maintain the existing number of parking places in Bramsche Square as part of the Town Deal development project. (Starting Here). The final result was a reduction of just a handful of places rather than the lose of 30+ originally planned.