Towns Fund Playbook
This guide provides an overview of the resources that have been produced throughout the Towns Fund Delivery Partner (TFDP) programme. It is provided for Towns Fund programme leads and delivery teams to enable engagement with the library of resources produced by TFDP and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). It also signposts to official documents which have been issued by DLUHC.
Insights and look ahead from DLUHC and TFDP
Description
The Towns Fund Delivery Partner has worked closely with you over the Towns fund programme. Starting from developing successful Town Investment Plans through our support with Business Case development and project support, TFDP has learned a great deal from the Towns across the country. As our programme ended, we wanted to share back with you insights from across the programme as you continue your journey to delivering transformational projects and programmes. This recorded event brings together some of the TFDP leads to present insight from TFDP that can support Towns on your journey, moving into project delivery and how to make best use of TFDP resources going forward.
DLUHC will continue to champion the Towns Fund programme as an important part of levelling up. During the event, representatives from DLUHC shared their aspirations for continuing the success of the programme to-date and answered questions about ‘what next?’ for the Towns.
About the speakers
Beatrice Andrews (Deputy Director, DLUHC) and Peter Sutton (Towns Fund Programme Delivery Lead, DLUHC)
Members of the TFDP team shared their insights during this session.
Insights and look ahead from TFDP
Description
In this recorded session, the Towns Fund Delivery Partner at the first 18 months of the programme. Starting from developing successful Town Investment Plans through our support with Business Case development and project support, TFDP has learned a great deal from the Towns across the country. As that stage of the programme ended, TFDP wanted to share back with you insights from across the programme as you continue your journey to delivering transformational projects and programmes.
This recorded event brings together some of the TFDP leads to present:
Insight from TFDP that can support Towns on your journey, moving into project delivery
How to make best use of TFDP resources going forward (including business case resources)
About the speaker
Members of the TFDP team shared their insights during this session.
Lessons Learnt from Cohort 2
Description:
In this recorded webinar, a panel of experts discusses key findings and outcomes from their work reviewing the Town Investment Plans submitted by the Cohort 2 towns.
The session covered key lessons learnt, and provided tips and recommendations for towns preparing their TIPs.
About the Speakers:
Our panel were all involved in reviewing Cohort 2 TIPs, and have extensive experience in their respective areas.
Margaret Kalaugher is highly skilled at bringing key people together to promote collaboration and secure informed and considered decisions on transport and regeneration schemes. Her effectiveness is built on strong client programme management, strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving, negotiating and influencing skills.
Ross Hayman leads on stakeholder engagement in the north of England for the Towns Fund Delivery Partner. He brings many years’ experience of stakeholder engagement, community relations and public consultation on major infrastructure projects and urban redevelopment, with particular expertise in the energy sector.
Shrikant Singhania is a Town Coordinator in the North region and has been offering support on the funding and financing sections as well as advice around project delivery. With a background in Public Services Real Estates & Assets Advisory, Shrikant has vast experience in advising local authorities on viable operational delivery structures and funding scenarios available for the project.
Rebecca Collings is a Town Coordinator in the South & West region. She brings a wealth of experience from her past roles in the Civil Service in drafting documents for Government purposes, as well as in setting up and delivering complex projects.
Lessons Learnt from Cohort 1
Description:
Following on from the series of blog posts that we published at the start of August 2020, we hosted this webinar, where a panel of experts discussed key findings and outcomes from their work reviewing the Town Investment Plans submitted by the Cohort 1 towns.
The session covered key lessons learnt, and provided tips and recommendations for those towns currently preparing their TIPs.
About the speakers:
Our panel were all involved in reviewing Cohort 1 TIPs, and have extensive experience in their respective areas.
Tom Bridges is an experienced professional in town and city strategies, urban and regional policy and planning, transport, economic development, economic analysis, regeneration, and town and city operations.
James Gore is an experienced communicator with a strong Track record in stakeholder engagement, focusing on local, regional and national government relations. He has worked in agency and in-house roles across many industries, with a specialism in the aviation sector.
Rob Turner plays a lead role in Grant Thornton's Public Services consulting team. He brings particular expertise in the analysis of large quantitative and qualitative data, with the explicit purpose of deriving intelligent insight to inform service delivery, make the case for investment and to drive performance improvement.