Business Case Resources

The Towns Fund Delivery Partner (TFDP) have prepared an optional business case template for the Towns Fund programme, along with a summary document template and proportionality guide.

We are working to support you in developing robust and considered Business Cases and projects that will help you achieve positive change in your Town. This document summarises what is on offer during Stage 2 up to October 2021.

The Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) is an important part of all decision making for the public sector, and the Towns Fund is no exception. This guide and template provides key information for Towns.

This recorded webinar focuses on Stakeholder Engagement and Communications at Business Case stage. We will walk through a model and steps to take to keep your stakeholders engaged throughout the business case development.

This document provides an overview of some of the key actions associated with planning, EIA and HRA processes and outcomes that you should consider when preparing your business case.

This guide sets out some of the planning and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) considerations that you might face during development of your business case and whilst progressing your projects.

This guide provides information to help support you when developing your Business Cases. It outlines the process in more detail, the key role of engagement and include examples of what a strong Business Case should look like.

This guide provides a review of the 2020 Green Book and how it may impact the Towns Fund programme.

A community and stakeholder engagement plan is a key requirement to building a strong Business Case and it is critical in demonstrating how you manage stakeholders during project delivery.

A guidance document providing an overview of the types of information to consider when developing your Business Case or delivery plan and identifying stakeholders to proactively engage in the process.

This recording of our previous event provides good practice principles for your Strategic Case, providing details of how to pull the relevant information from your TIP into your business case.

This Guide will help Towns work out how best to translate their Town Investment Plan into the strategic case of their project business cases.

In developing a robust Business Case it is important to consider how COVID-19 has impacted your Town and how best to capture this in your baseline. The purpose of this resource is to assist in this process.

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview for towns to develop their strategy for their Town Investment Plan.

This short video presentation will provide you with an introduction to “Theory of Change” – what it is and why it matters for your Town Investment Plan

How do you make sense of the range of evidence to inform the development of your town strategy, to ensure it is robust, credible and has the support of the stakeholders? This guide provides information to support your TIP.

Looking beyond traditional measures of success, Grant Thornton’s Sustainable Growth Index provides key information to help you understand the performance of your town across six key outcomes.

This short guide is supplementary to the Economic Case: Best Practice Guide, and provides guidance on how to quantify and monetise economic benefits related to culture and heritage interventions.

This annex to our Economic Best Practice guide provides additional guidance on how to quantify and monetise economic benefits related to development and land-based interventions.

DfT recently announced forthcoming changes to the Transport Appraisal Guidance (TAG) to be published officially in the guidance in July 2021. This document provides an overview of the key updates.

This guide provides detail about the questions that Towns should consider in approaching the distributional analysis required in their Business Cases. It also identifies the place based analysis that can be applied where appropriate, with signposting to relevant guidance documents.

This short guide is supplementary to the Economic Case: Best Practice Guide, and provides additional information on how to quantify and monetise economic benefits related to active travel projects

This guide provides Towns with general guidance for producing the Economic Case, from the approach to the Economic Case, to the Value for Money assessment.

The purpose of this document is to show practical ways to include social value in your projects and business cases to increase the Value for Money.

This recording of our webinar explores the economic benefits that we would expect to analyse, including non-monetised benefits, and top tips for estimating them.

In developing a robust Business Case it is important to consider how COVID-19 has impacted your Town and how best to capture this in your baseline. The purpose of this resource is to assist in this process.

In developing a robust Town Investment Plan it is important to consider how any intervention will impact and improve the health and wellbeing of the population. This dashboard includes a selection of key health and wellbeing measures.

This webinar focuses on the Commercial Case. Drawing on published guidance, it provides a context for the application to Towns Fund projects with reference to the template and proportionality guide.

This webinar will focus on the Financial Case which will offer guidance to Towns on how to demonstrate the affordability and funding of the preferred option for each project.

This recording of our webinar focuses on the Management Case. Drawing on published guidance it provides a context for the application to Towns Fund projects with reference to the template and proportionality guide and exploring topics and issues that will support Towns in developing their plans.