Welcome
This website contains a range of material and guidance to support places to deliver the Towns Fund. There are resources here from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC), but also workshop presentations, tools and guides developed by the Towns Fund Delivery Partner (TFDP). NB. The TFDP contract with DLUHC ended on the 29th of July 2022, but all resources that were created by the consortium are still available on this website.
What is the Towns Fund?
In recent years, our towns and high streets have faced a number of significant challenges to growth. Our town centres and high streets are a crucial part of our communities and local economies that create jobs, nurture small businesses and inject billions of pounds into our economy.
The Towns Fund has two major components: Town Deals and the Future High Streets Fund Competition
The Town Deals programme aims to regenerate towns and deliver long-term economic and productivity growth. This is through investments in urban regeneration, digital and physical connectivity, skills, heritage and enterprise infrastructure.
The Future High Streets Fund Competition aims to renew and reshape town centres and high streets in a way that improves experience, drives growth and ensures future sustainability.
DLUHC has now committed over £2.35bn worth of Town Deals and over £830m of Future High Streets Funding across 170 high streets, town centres and local communities in England. This ongoing investment has already provided a much-needed boost for town centres as they safely welcomed shoppers and visitors back to their high streets after the COVID 19 pandemic. It will help to create jobs and build more resilient local economies.
Towns Fund Playbook
The ‘Towns Fund Playbook’ provides an overview of the resources that have been produced throughout the programme. It is linked here to signpost DLUHC official documents and TFDP resources.
What you can find on this site
Towns
On this page you can find a list of all Towns included in the Towns Fund programme and links to their published Town Investment Plans or Town Deal Board websites. You can also find ‘Our Town Stories’, which celebrates the remarkable people committed to making a difference in your Towns.
TFDP Topics
On this page, you can find a comprehensive list of all resources, blogs and recorded webinars related to the wide range of topics supported by the TFDP.
Towns Conference 2023
This page showcases the first annual Towns Conference which took place in June 2023. Presentation slide-packs from the day are available for download.
Towns Fund Resources
The dropdown menu links to key resources from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). If you have additional questions, please get in touch with your Cities and Local Growth Unit Area Lead.