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Yorkshire groups go further with leader funding

5th February 2010

Organisers of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust LEADER funding programme are calling for projects that ‘cross borders’ to help promote rural regeneration in the Yorkshire Dales.

The LEADER programme is offering funding to intrepid organisations or groups who want to work with groups in other countries or regions of the UK to help develop community projects. Previous success stories have included transferring traditional lime burning skills between groups based in Romania and the Northern Pennines and a joint project between the UK and Vestsjælland to construct low cost timber camping shelters to encourage sustainable tourism.

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust LEADER programme funds projects that promote economic and community well-being in this area. The ‘Co-operation’ area of the LEADER programme, where the current funding comes from, encourages rural regeneration through collaboration with groups outside the area and from oversees.

Applications are now being invited from groups who would like to develop such projects. For further information and to discuss your ideas please contact the Dales LEADER Co-ordinator Rima Berry at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Tel. 015242 51002
email rima.berry@ydmt.org or visit www.yorkshiredalesleader.co.uk

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