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To enter a project for the Market Town Awards, you will need to give the following information:

Basic details

1. Name of the project
2. The market town in which the project was completed
3. The lead partnership or organisation submitting the project and eligible to receive the award.  This should be a Market Town Community Partnership or local authority.
4. The key partners who played a part in the delivery of the project.
5. Date when the partnership was formed.
6. Contact – this should be someone involved with the project and the completion of the application form. They must be available and able to answer any queries that arise during the evaluation of the form. The contact name will be published in our Best Practice Case Studies Database and given to the media (unless you make a specific request for privacy).

Categories

State which of the four categories you are entering your project under. Towns may enter different projects in different categories, but can make only one entry in each category.  Examples of the types of projects included in each category are:

• Environment and Culture: Environmental improvement, conservation, transport, heritage, streetscape design, leisure, tourism, sport
• Social and Community: Social issues, disadvantaged groups, community facilities, education, youth projects, housing, crime reduction
• Business and Economy: Workspace provision, training, business promotion, social enterprise, growth and diversification
• Partnership and Strategic Working: Health Check and Action Planning, succession planning, partnership management, influencing strategic policy, collaborative working

Some projects may fit into more than one category.  If this is the case, choose the most appropriate category by the project’s central objective or output.  If necessary, email awards@towns.org.uk for guidance.

Describe your project

Write a 50-word description of the project describing what it did and for whom. This summary will be used for any publicity associated with the awards.

Give a full project overview clearly stating which part of the project was completed between 1 April and 31 March of the relevant years, what it did, how, by whom and for whom.

Community and local need

Describe how you identified the local need for this project and how this need was fulfilled by the project activity. Describe how you involved the community in the design and delivery of the project.  Set your answer out under the three following sub headings:

• Community: Describe what part of the town community benefited from the project’s outcomes.  It may not necessarily be the entire community, for example, the business community.
• Need: Clearly describe how your project met local need.  Explain how you identified that this need existed.  Refer to your Healthcheck or any other research undertaken.
• Community involvement: Describe how you consulted with your community before or during the development phase of your project.  Explain how your community has been involved in the design, management and delivery of your project. Describe how they will be involved with the future sustainability of the project or project outputs.

Innovation, quality and transferability

The judges are particularly looking for evidence that you have designed and delivered your project to a high standard using innovative techniques.  Answer this question under the two sub-headings:

• Quality: Describe how the products, services and processes involved in your identifying, designing and delivering the project were of a high standard.
• Innovation: Demonstrate how the project itself or the methods used to deliver the project were new to the area or region. The judges are looking for imaginative approaches to common issues. Describe if you have, or plan to, mainstream your innovative activity and explain more widely how your innovative project or approach may be transferable to other areas.

Finance and funding

• Breakdown of project funding:  List sources and amounts of funding – include all in-kind contributions and local fund raising.
• Projections of ongoing costs and sources of funding: Describe how you will maintain financial viability.  Detailed accounts are not required. This is simply to assist the judges in assessing what has been achieved and how the project will be sustained in the future.

Images

Supply an electronic photograph or image of your project. These must be high resolution (300k file size or above) jpegs. The photographs will be used for publicity and as evidence to support your application.

What next?

• Register your interest for next year’s Market Town Awards
• Go to the Market Town Awards homepage