About Teesdale Marketing

Teesdale Marketing is an independent, not-for-profit company, run by volunteers, which was formed in 1998 to promote Teesdale.

Our Details...

Registration number: 3649236
Registered Office: 91 Galgate, Barnard Castle.

We are local residents, private businesses and representatives from local community / public sector organisations.


Bill Oldfield Chairman	Hazel Coppack Executive Director	Barbara-Anne Johnson Director	David Hutchinson Director

Graeme Gill Director	David Blackie Director	Emma Percival Director	Stuart Heseltine Director

We are not a business or social club and we do not market or provide financial assistance to individual businesses.

We initiate, deliver and support projects of significant economic and social benefit to Teesdale in order to:

Producing literature to promote Teesdale as a quality destination
Creating an award-winning multilingual website to promote Teesdale
Creating and maintaining an online Events Calendar and producing the Teesdale Events Guide
Arranging Teesdale familiarisation visits (FAMs) for tour operators, travel writers, etc.
Attending travel trade shows
Developing the Teesdale Brand
Working with partners to create the on-line Gateway to Teesdale www.teesdale.co.uk
Promoting the production and use of locally grown/made food and crafts
Creating a local food website
Starting, developing and continuing to support the award-winning Barnard Castle farmers' market
Initiating and developing the Teesdale and Wear Valley Food Festival
Continuing to support the continuing development of the Teesdale Food Festivals at The Bowes Museum
Helping to raise the skills levels of Teesdale residents / businesses through a skills development programme
Managing the maintenance of the Barnard Castle flower tubs sponsored by Teesdale businesses / residents, the Christmas trees on premises in the town and large Christmas trees on the Market Place toilets and bottom of The Bank
Organising a Christmas Festival
Promoting The Bank's antiques, arts and crafts businesses
Helping to get the first stage of the Hamsterley Trailblazers project completed
Commissioning a feasibility study into a proposed rope suspension bridge for Teesdale

Click here to view details of our current projects.

We value the ideas, insight and opinions of our members to generate and guide our projects. Join Us

www.exploreteesdale.com - the award-winning multilingual Discover Teesdale website for the travel trade and general visitor

www.eatteesdale.co.uk - the food project website to promote the production and use of local produce

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