How to fix the high street with Andrew McDonald & Alex Schlagman

SaveTheHighStreet.org launched in August 2016 with the the release of a Manifesto that outlined a new vision for the high street and how we achieve it together.Today, SaveTheHighStreet.org is led by a passionate dedicated team, an Advisory Board of 200+ high street businesses and industry experts, a fast-growing community of Local Champions and dozens of other partners across both public and private sectors. Together they have supported over 25,000 local businesses in the U.K. and we’re just getting started.They focused their conversations on the need to work with the next generation of retailers, in light of diminishing occupational demand from the national multiple retail chains.Great to sit down with Alex Schlagman, Co Founder of Savethehighstreet.org and Andrew McDonald, retail property expert, where we discussed:How to fix our high streets in light of fewer larger-brand retail requirements ;and how the public and private sector can work in partnership to address the vacancy challenges in our town centres?Also, great to launch our partnership with Rich Hanrahan and RPNA. RPNA work with you to design, build and deliver leadership, wellbeing and transformation programmes that are people centred, digitally enabled and developed for the future of public service provision. They are a fantastic partner with public sector organisations across the UK.