Page 15 - Barrow Town Deal Board Agenda 14/4/2020

BARROW-IN-FURNESS TOWN DEAL BOARD

Date of Meeting: 15 May 2020

Reporting Officer: Chief Executive – Barrow
Borough Council

Title: Town Deal Board – Communications and
Engagement Plan

Summary and Conclusions:
This paper updates the Board on activities since April, provides a brief
summary of relevant engagement activities and sets out a broad
communications and engagement plan for the period up to submission

Recommendations:

It is recommended that the Town Deal Board:

1. Agree the plan for communication and engagement to be delivered before
the application is submitted in July;
2. Agree the #BrilliantBarrow style guide (attached in Appendix B).

Report

1 Background

The Towns Deal Communications and Engagement group are meeting on a
weekly basis to manage and deliver community consultation to inform and
support the bidding process. As the Corona Virus national crisis continues
the group are planning for digital-only engagement as it seems unlikely that
face-to-face engagement will be possible

2 Progress and engagement to date:

Stakeholder Insight Report:

Hatch Regeneris have produced a Stakeholder Insight Report (attached as
Appendix A) which draws on the following:

 Current sentiment on Barrow as expressed via online engagement
platforms using AI web-scraping tool called “Meltwater AI”;

 Analysis of suggestions put forward by the community to the
#MyTowns portal (see below);