How to Prepare for your Funding Applications?
We have developed seven key steps with our expert partners who have successfully delivered Social Housing Decarbonisation Funding (SHDF) projects.
This aims to help you take vital steps now to ensure you make the most of this funding opportunity to transform homes in your communities.
Objectives
Understand your targets, be clear about what you are setting out to achieve through the funding, and make sure you have a backup list.
Partnerships
Select your retrofit delivery partner early, think about partnerships and a turn-key approach – enlist experts to manage this process.
Engagement
Engage comprehensively with tenants.
Integration
Integrate funding with planned capital works programmes.
Data
Start data analysis as early as possible - don’t rely on historic, out-of-date, or inaccurate property data. Identify the gaps and weaknesses in your stock data.
Time Management
Use time wisely, cleanse your data, undertake sample EPCs, retrofit assessments, and technical surveys at the pre-submission stage.
Partners
Engage early with relevant bodies such as Planning, Building Control, Distribution Network Operators and understand what information you will need to provide e.g. asbestos surveys.
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