1. Ian Winchester - Development Officer
Cumbria Fells and Dales, Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), Local Action Group
Ian Winchester - Development Officer

2. “Valuing the landscape, its products and its people”
Cumbria Fells & Dales
RDPE Local Action Group
Grants for Farms and Forestry, Rural Business and Community Groups

3. Liaison entre actions de développement rural.
Leader Approach
Liaison entre actions de développement rural.
‘Links between actions of rural development’

4. 7 key Leader features The Leader Approach Networking Cooperation
Innovation
Area based local development strategies
Bottom-up collaboration and implementation of strategies
Local public-private partnerships
Integrated and multisectoral actions

5. Cumbria Fells & Dales RDPE Local Action Group
The Old Stables
Redhills
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 0DT
Solway, Border and Eden RDPE Local Action Group
Local Links Community Office
Market Hall
Church Street
Wigton
CA9 9AA

6. Local Action Group Members
Friends of the Lake District
Furness Enterprise Ltd
Growing Well
International Centre for the Uplands – Cumbria
Invest in Cumbria
John Muir Award
Keswick Area Partnership Ltd (do they still exist?)
Keswick Business Improvement District Ltd (do they still exist?)
Kirkby Stephen Community Office
Lake District National Park Authority
Lake District Peninsulas Tourism Partnership
Learning & Skills Council – Cumbria
Millom & Haverigg Economic Development Group
Morecambe Bay Partnership
National Farmers’ Union
National Trust
Natural England
Northern Fells Rural Community Development Group
Nurture Lakeland (Tourism & Conservation Partnership)
One South Lakeland (South Lakeland Local Strategic Partnership )
Pentalk Network
Rural Women’s Network Groups – VAC
Sedbergh Book Town
SLDC
SLDC/Ulverston & Low Furness MTI Partnership
United Utilities
West Cumbria Development Agency
Westmorland Agricultural Society
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Allerdale Borough Council
Action with Communities in Cumbria
Barrow Borough Council
Bill Hogarth Memorial Apprenticeship Trust
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (Northern England)
Copeland Borough Council
Country Land & Business Association
Cumbria Action for Sustainability
Cumbria Association of Councils for Voluntary Service
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce
Cumbria County Council
Cumbria – Cumberland Federation of Women’s Inst.
Cumbria – Westmorland Federation of Women’s Inst.
Cumbria Farmer Network
Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs
Cumbria Organics
Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency
Cumbria Tourism
Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Cumbria Woodlands
Cumbria Youth Alliance
East Cumbria Countryside Project
Eden District Council
Eden Local Strategic Partnership
Environment Agency
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group
Federation of Cumbria Commoners
Forestry Commission

7. As the Leader name suggests, it is a method of mobilising and delivering rural development in local rural communities, rather than a fixed set of measures to be implemented. However !

8. Measures
M111
Training – farming and forestry
M114
Use of advisory services
M115
Setting up of management and advisory services
M121
Modernisation of agricultural holdings
M123
Adding value to agricultural and forestry products
M125
Co-operation for development of new products processes and technologies (farmer)
M311
Farm diversification (into non-agricultural activities)
M312
Micro-enterprise
M313
Encouragement of tourism activities
M321
Basic services for the economy and rural population
M323
Conservation and upgrading of the rural heritage
M331
Training and information for business and community
M421
Inter-regional and transnational co-operation

9. Who is it meant to benefit?
Economic /Skills/ Community
• Farmers, farming families and foresters.
• Local farming organisations such as cooperative groups.
• Businesses operating in rural areas.
• Locally based voluntary organisations and community groups.
• Local partnerships such as market town partnerships, community planning groups or similar.

10. CF&D – Projects within LDNP
£2,664, Total grant intervention
Number of projects
£37, Average per project
£280,050 Next grant panel
Projects
£25, Per project

11. M123 – Adding value to farm and forestry products
Lakes Free Range Egg
Company Ltd – The Perfect
Egg (Stainton)
Installation of world leading egg processing and grading equipment
£1,963,674 project total
£785,469 grant allocation
Joint CF&D (75%) SB&E (25%)
11 FTE directly employed
84 Participants in training
12 Co-operation actions

12. M111 – Vocational training and information actions
Rural Skills Cumbria
(SAC Consulting)
Training programme for farm + forestry
£865,015 project total
£692,701 grant allocation
Joint CF&D (50%) SB&E (50%)
6,500 training days to be delivered
E.g. Hedge laying, coppicing and trailer handling

13. M311 – Farm Diversification
Abbot Park Farm – Bandrake
Head
Catering equipment
£35, project total
£14, grant allocation
1 FTE created
Keeping farming family on
the farm.

14. M312 – Business creation and development
Traction Engine Driving
Experience – Broughton
In Furness
New road tyres
£8, project total
£3,525 grant allocation
2 FTE safeguarded
Delivering tourist experience days +
actual driving tests for traction
engine owners

15. M321 – Basic services for the economy and rural population
Village Agents - South
Lakeland Age UK
Ambleside, Grasmere and Staveley
£27,834 project total
£11,452 grant allocation
1 FTE created (x3 individuals)
Promotion of social inclusion
E.g. Accessing allowances, benefits, knowledge transfer + prevention schemes (electric blankets)

16. Where next? RDPE will continue to operate through to 2013, as required
under the European Rural
Development Regulation.
CAP changes are currently being scrutinized, may result in ‘Leader like’ programme starting in 2015.

17. Where next?
In UK, 2015 timeframe is more likely to manifest itself as
European Social Fund may be possible source of funding.
European Region Development Fund may also be possible funding source.
Defra commitment to upland areas may remain key focus.
CF&D/LDNP well placed if uplands are key priority.
Any change in UK administration may change focus/emphasis on rural affairs.

18. Thank You. Any Questions?