Greensand Ridge LEADER funding bid
Bedfordshire Rural Affairs Forum, working with BRCC, coordinated
a bid for the Greensand Ridge area
to benefit from new EU funding.
The application, led by local people to
promote the communities, businesses and enterprises in the
Greensand Ridge area of Bedfordshire, has won £3 million of
funding awarded by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA)
through the Rural Development Programme for England.
Funding
totalling in excess of £20 million is to be allocated regionally
between now and 2013 to Local Action Groups across the East of
England through the Leader approach. The Leader approach is a
community led ‘bottom up’ approach to project delivery where a
group made up of private businesses and community interests
provide a key role in defining and addressing local needs.
This page
will have updates on how the Local Development Strategy is being
taken forward. You
can also find out more information about this new funding.
Latest Update
2 June
We were delighted to hear at
the end of May that the Greensand Ridge Local Action Group's
Leader bid has been approved by EEDA. This will bring in up
to 3 million pounds over the next five years or so for our
Local Development Strategy for the area.
EEDA press release
14 March
Today is EEDA's deadline, and the Greensand
Ridge LAG's bid has been submitted - we hope to hear in May
whether the bid has been successful. Many thanks to all
those businesses, organisations and individuals who have been
part of the bid's development.
The bid:
Local Development Strategy - final (3MB)
LAG Area map (pdf)
Year 1 workplan
Budget
(Excel)
Outputs (Excel)
Alignment with RDPE measures
7 March
We have prepared a
Q&A to address some of the issues raised by the Local Action
Group on 3 March.
6 March
The powerpoint presentations used at the
public Open Evenings in February and at the Local Action Group
meeting on 3 March are now on this site:
Open evening. (Powerpoint,
2Mb)
LAG
(Powerpoint, 0.5Mb)
The Buckinghamshire parishes have been taken
out of the bid as they are now part of the Aylesbury Vale &
Milton Keynes LAG proposal. At its meeting on 3
March, the Local Action Group agreed the addition of Toddington,
Shefford, Clifton, Meppershall, Sutton, Blunham, Tempsford to
the Greensand Ridge bid. Criteria for parishes is that they need
to be in the Joint Character Area as classified by Natural
England, or for those on the edge, that their main service
centre is within the area.
26 February
Cancellation of 27 February sub-group
We regret we have had to cancel tomorrow's final sub-group
meeting at the Rufus Centre. The group was due to look at
resource efficiency in the agri-food sector, green business
growth, support for farmers/foresters diversifying into
sustainable construction/energy products, green infrastructure
planning, and carbon reduction. If you have any comments you
want to feed in to us on these issues, these would be very
welcome.
Our thanks to all those involved
in the other sub-group meetings to date, which raised some
helpful issues and ideas. Work is continuing on the draft
strategy and a final draft will be available later this week.
6
February
Following
consideration by a regional panel of initial expressions of
interest, the Greensand Ridge Local Action Group has been
invited to submit a full Local Development Strategy (LDS).
We are setting up a number of meetings and consultations in
February to shape the LDS.
Issues and objectives
of the bid
Open evenings
Community
consultation survey
Opportunities for
the land based sector
Survey of farmers
and other land-based industries
Future LAG and
thematic meetings
Preparation of
Local Development Strategy (LDS)
Get involved
If you would like
to be involved in shaping the future of the Greensand Ridge,
either as part of the Local Action Group, find out more or
simply be added to the Greensand Ridge LEADER circulation
list, please contact: Jon Boswell 01767 626460 or
Jane Markham 01525 878149 or
email us or use the "sign-up/suggestions"
sheet.
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