December 2023 /January 2024
Mid Term Review
In January we held our mid-term review for the project, which is now halfway through. This is held to check that we are on-track to deliver what we promised and enables any corrective actions to be applied while the project is still active. The meeting is chaired by an independent assessor – in this case, our project partner, White Horse Ecology. The assessor’s summary was as follows:
‘It was excellent to see the progress that you have made and the way that the project is being managed. I have a very high level of confidence that you are on track to achieve all of the approved purposes of your project… as well as meet the proposed outcomes. It is also encouraging to see that you will over achieve in many areas, in a large part due to the incredible input of volunteers to not only the delivery but the management of the project. To accomplish the volume of work your team has within the original budget is really quite something.’
We’re very proud of this assessment result, which enables us to go into the final half of the project knowing that we are heading in the right direction.
The images show two direct results of the project - the excavation of the 'Jane' 15-inch gun emplacement at Wanstone, and Fan Bay emplacement 3, with the partial excvavation of Fan Bay emplacement 2. Despite the bad weather in December and January, we’re continuing to maintain the sites and to prepare for this year’s work and we’ll report more on this in our next update.