West Cornwall Local Action Group Community-led Local Development LEADER Clare Leverton Linda Emmett February 2014
West Cornwall Local Action Group Background to LEADER Follows 7 principles of development ‘Bottom up’ Successful local action group delivering rural programme via LEADER approach Creating jobs, new businesses, improving access to services, drawing in additional investment Next programme 4% RDPE, competitive £140m across England
West Cornwall Local Action Group
West Cornwall Local Action Group
West Cornwall Local Action Group CLLD is different, so not quite ‘more of the same’
West Cornwall Local Action Group Opportunity LEP ambition to deliver 5% of ALL funds (c£35m) through CLLD 100% geography across all of Cornwall – 4 groups Focus on jobs and growth
West Cornwall Local Action Group
West Cornwall Local Action Group What do we need to do Write local Development Strategy/ies which will identify priorities for investment based on need Engage with communities, businesses and social enterprises to understand needs and aspirations
West Cornwall Local Action Group Timescales February – Aprilconsultation events April – Junepreparation of the Local Development Strategy Junedraft Local Development Strategy produced for review July – Augustpreparation of bid and final Local Development Strategy ready to submit to Government October – Novemberoutcome of bid known January 2015new programme starts
West Cornwall Local Action Group How you can help (please!) Send us any up-to-date plans, surveys, reports you have (desk research) Invite us to community network meetings so we can engage with as many people/groups as possible Tell us about other key forums, groups etc that operate in your area/s – if you can facilitate contact – great! Take the leaflet, and spread the word!
West Cornwall Local Action Group Thank you Clare Leverton & Linda Emmett