Project Close Out Report
Project closure is often a stage that is neglected as people move onto other assignments and significant energy has been focused on bringing an asset into use. It is however an important time to take stock, assess the successes and failures and most importantly, identify the areas of learning that can be transferred to other projects. This is especially important in a Towns Fund context as many Towns are delivering multiple projects, at different times but with similar challenges to overcome. This Project Close Report template has been produced to provide a straightforward but effective way of capturing useful information from the project team that, if populated correctly will serve well from both traceability and lessons learned perspectives. This report should be endorsed through governance via a final decision gate and although is the responsibility of the Sponsor, will often be produced by the project team who have had the first-hand experience of delivery.
Engagement in the Post-COVID World
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses, community groups, councillors and MPs (and more) have had to learn how to engage in new ways. As we enter into a post-COVID environment, it is important to implement blended engagement techniques, applying the digital skills developed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This guidance outlines the steps to follow to help ensure engagement remains consistent, accessible and far-reaching.
Renewable Powered Towns
This resource explores the opportunities Towns can take to work towards reaching net zero legislative goals. The options are set against a backdrop of the impact of supply constraints in the energy market so far. Through existing procurement powers, local authorities can reshape how energy is supplied to existing and future assets to meet their energy demands.
Communicating and Engaging During Delivery
Whether you’re already starting to deliver your projects or are still working on your Business Cases, it is key that you continue to put communications and engagement at the heart of your respective projects’ strategies and visions.
This guidance has been developed to help you maintain and progress your communications and engagement from Business Case to project delivery.
How to engage with branding during delivery
As you move into project delivery, it’s important to adapt your branding to ensure you continue to engage with the stakeholders your projects are impacting the most. We have published this guidance resource for branding and project delivery to help you achieve this.
Towns Fund Communications and Engagement playbook
This communications and engagement playbook provides a comprehensive overview of the resources available to you on communications, consultation, community and stakeholder engagement through the Towns Fund Programme. These resources can help you develop your Business Cases and enhance project delivery to support you in this next stage of the programme.
As you finalise your Business Case and look ahead to delivery, we know that you will need to engage communities about your plans and keep them informed as your project progresses. This resource guide provides you with links to a range of documents to help you do just that.
Towns Fund Risk Register Template
Risks are a fact of programme delivery, and they have wide-ranging causes, including political, economic, social, technical and operational. Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing and putting in place measures to control threats to project success. Risk registers should be at the heart of your approach to risk management. A risk register provides a framework for you to identify and gain a shared understanding of the risks and what should be done.
To help you to manage risks for the Towns Fund, TFDP have developed a simple risk register, with accompanying instructions, for you to use. This template can be used at the project- and programme-levels to track and manage risks, and they can support reporting on risk management to your Town Deal Board and across the programme.
Towns Fund Document Submission Timeline
This resource shows the key documents that should be submitted to DLUHC and the timeline for submission of those documents for each of the four waves of Town Deal Offers. Any questions regarding the dates or process should be directed to towns’ CLGU Area Leads.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Indicators Tutorial
In advance of the Towns Fund October-November reporting period opening, a teach-in was held to discuss the mandatory and project-specific indicators. The aim of this teach-in was to raise awareness that each project needed all relevant project-specific indicators to be allotted to it ahead of the reporting period opening.
A recording of the webinar is below.