It’s built on a simple idea

If we want a stronger town centre, we need a better connection between local people and local businesses.

Right now, that connection is often missing.

Businesses don’t always know what local people want..

Local people often feel disconnected from the decisions that shape their town…

  • People often feel unheard.
  • Businesses don’t always have clear direction.
  • New ideas are often based on assumptions rather than visible demand.

The potential is there…
The connection isn’t.

It helps organise real opinions, preferences and ideas from the local community — turning them into useful insight that businesses, entrepreneurs and community projects can actually use.

The Revive Kettering Facebook group is the starting point — not the end.

Here’s how it leads to real outcomes. Revive Kettering and the local businesses need to know:

  • What businesses are needed.
  • What the town centre should feel like.
  • Where opportunities exist.

This means businesses aren’t guessing — they’re responding to real, visible demand.

WHAT REVIVE KETTERING ACTUALLY DOES

The Revive Kettering Facebook group is the starting point — not the end.

Here’s how it leads to real outcomes. Revive Kettering and the local businesses need to know:

  • What businesses are needed.
  • What the town centre should feel like.
  • Where opportunities exist.

This means businesses aren’t guessing — they’re responding to real, visible demand.

These local insights are used:

  • To support new business ideas
  • To improve existing local businesses
  • To identify gaps and opportunities within the town centre

Over time, this creates a clearer, more reliable picture of what works.

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Scaled Up is a local business dedicated to providing support to other Kettering businesses.

Helping to turn community demand into real-world action.

While Revive Kettering helps identify opportunities, Scaled Up helps businesses act on them.

It works with:

  • Start-ups launching ideas that are already in demand.
  • Existing businesses looking to improve and adapt.
  • Opportunities identified through Revive Kettering’s community insight.

Together, they help connect local demand with local supply — increasing the chances of long-term success.

Over time, this creates:

  • A stronger connection between local people and local businesses.
  • Better-informed business decisions.
  • More successful local businesses.
  • More occupied shops and opportunities within the town centre.
  • More local jobs.
  • A more vibrant town to live, work and visit.

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While Revive Kettering helps identify opportunities, Scaled Up helps businesses act on them.

It works with:

  • Start-ups launching ideas that are already in demand.
  • Existing businesses looking to improve and adapt.
  • Opportunities identified through Revive Kettering’s community insight.

Over time, this creates:

  • A stronger connection between people and businesses
  • More successful local businesses
  • A more active and attractive town centre
  • A system that continuously improves itself

Together, they help connect local demand with local supply — increasing the chances of long-term success.

funding a better town — together.

The Revive Kettering Lottery helps turn positive ideas into real action.

By creating a local funding pot, it can help support business initiatives, community projects and opportunities identified through Revive Kettering.

At the same time, prize money stays within Kettering by being spent with participating local businesses.

If you want to be part of shaping Kettering’s future…

Join the community and help shape Kettering’s future.