“Valuing the landscape, its products and its people
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Sustaining farm and rural livelihoods in and around the Cumbrian Uplands
- info@fellsanddales.org.uk
- 01768 869533
What We Can Support
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Grants for farming and forestry activities |
Grants for rural businesses and community projects |
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Training and information provision |
Farm diversification into non-agricultural activities |
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Forestry advisory services |
Business creation and development targeted at micro-businesses with less than 10 employees |
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Setting up of management, relief and advisory services for farm and forestry businesses |
Encouragement of certain tourism activity such as eco-tourism, high value/low impact tourism or the creation of tourism networks |
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Modernisation of agricultural holdings including investment in small scale renewable energy - Please Read additional Guidance |
Basic services for the rural population |
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Improvement of the economic value of forests |
Conservation and upgrading of the rural heritage |
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Adding value to agricultural and forestry products |
Training and information for non farm and forestry businesses |
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Cooperation for development of new products, processes and technologies |
Support for local development strategies |
Projects need to fit with the Cumbria Fells and Dales RDPE Plan and contribute to the outputs required for the Programme. All projects are considered on benefits and outputs towards the economic activity within rural Cumbria. Key Outputs include:-
Jobs Created
GVA increase
Training days received
What can't we support?
Development Officers will give individual advice but the following activities are unlikely to be eligible:-
Core agricultural production – for example, erection of farm buildings purely for core farming purposes
Purely environmental projects
Certain tourism provision in areas where there is already oversupply of facilities
Activities that might be funded by other grant programmes – for example, training that might be funded by the Learning and Skills council; and farming projects that might be funded by the Environmental Stewardship schemes or other parts of RDPE delivered regionally such as the North West Livestock Programme managed directly by Northwest Regional Development Agency.
