A Town Centre Boost

Fresh independent shops in Tamworth for a new shopping experience.

An exciting variety of independent businesses are on their way to Tamworth town centre, bringing things like pottery painting, craft workshops and healthy food to the high street.

Four new ventures have been confirmed as the first tenants of Town Hall Place - Tamworth Borough Council’s new affordable retail hub for start-ups and small businesses.

Brew health and wellness café is a new health and wellness café which will offer a selection of healthy food and drink including bagels, salads, acai bowls, fruit sorbets, matcha, iced teas, protein and collagen shakes.

It’s being opened by Amy Collins, who had been looking for the perfect location to bring her business dream to life for a couple of years.

Castle Notions haberdashery aims to merge traditional haberdashery retail with community engagement, offering a place where people can buy fabric, wool, buttons, thread and sewing machine accessories, but also learn new skills.

Alongside a retail offering of premium products, owner Novel Wust, plans to host workshops and social sessions in sewing, knitting, children’s crafts, sustainable fashion, upcycling, heritage crafts and theatre costume making.

The Paint Pot Studio is being set up by Kate Watts as a welcoming space for people of all ages to relax with cake and refreshments while trying a variety of creative pursuits.

The studio will offer ceramic pot painting sessions throughout the year, alongside a rotating programme of additional arts and crafts activities, such as painting in different mediums, bubble art, T-shirt making and more. Later, Kate hopes to include themed events, parties, and after school clubs.

Tropical Market will offer a variety of authentic raw African and Caribbean foods and cooking ingredients, including plantain, beans, yam, cassava, frozen fish and meats, herbs and spices.

This grocery store venture is the brainchild of Fred Borson who moved to Tamworth from Birmingham and spotted a gap for authentic ingredients in the local area.

Fred is also hoping to bring the community together through cultural events and cooking classes.

The tenants are busy fitting out their units ready for opening in the very near future.

Town Hall Place has been designed to improve the choice and appeal of the town centre in line with what shoppers want, while providing opportunities for niche businesses to set up and grow.

It also marks the final stages of the Future High Streets Fund regeneration project, which aims to put the heart back into Tamworth town centre.

With the businesses carefully chosen and almost ready to open, it will now be over to the people of Tamworth to support them.

Visit https://www.tamworth.gov.uk/transforming-tamworth for more information.