Celebration event 2019
On Wednesday 18th September the Council’s Economic Programmes Team hosted an event at Rheged to promote the successes of the two Cumbria LEADER Programmes in Cumbria (Cumbria Fell & Dales and Solway, Border & Eden). 23 projects attended the event to showcase how LEADER funding has supported their organisation. 8 of the projects gave presentations about their businesses, how the project idea came about, the support received during the application process and the impact the funding. Some of these projects are now exporting their goods to USA and Australia.
185 projects have been awarded a share of £4.68m, of which £3.25m has already been paid to projects. This is expected to create 200 new jobs and 155k additional day visitors to Cumbria – if using Visit Britain’s average day visitor spend this will contribute an extra £5.7m to the Cumbrian economy.
The presentation slides can be downloaded here:
185 projects have been awarded a share of £4.68m, of which £3.25m has already been paid to projects. This is expected to create 200 new jobs and 155k additional day visitors to Cumbria – if using Visit Britain’s average day visitor spend this will contribute an extra £5.7m to the Cumbrian economy.
The presentation slides can be downloaded here:
| leader_celebration_event_-_presentation.pdf |
A selection of photos taken at the event can be found below.
