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Eligible projects might;
• link businesses to supply chain through IT, provide new technology for small scale processing and packaging close to local produce, (thus adding value to local areas), focus on youth and young entrepreneurs, create links with research institutions to develop specialist products in a particular area (thus adding value). Home working would also be supported.
• be aimed at wider off farm non agricultural or forestry diversification, particularly rural micro enterprises aimed at employing women and young people e.g. craft workshops/outlets. They will encourage co-operation to create critical mass that provides economy of scale in production and marketing, e.g. small scale timber processing. All types of tourist activities, whether for accommodation, trails, interpretation signs/leaflets, marketing and community economic projects would be eligible under this theme.
Projects that have been funded under the theme of ‘Progressive Rural Economy’ are:
Tourism Initiatives
Conservation and Heritage
Health and Well Being
Food and Agriculture
Community Facilities
Access and Interpretation
Grant Schemes
Title: Exhibiting East Lothian
Organisation: East Lothian Tourism Attractions Group
LEADER Funding Awarded: £2,700
Area: East Lothian
To develop a strong branded presence to showcase East Lothian at a number of events, with the ultimate goal in attracting additional visitors to East Lothian which in turn will generate additional tourism revenue to businesses across the county.
Organisation: Scottish Flag Trust
LEADER Funding Awarded: £13,625
Area: East Lothian
The project will upgrade and enhance the Flag Heritage Centre and Saltire Memorial at Athelstaneford, the birthplace of the national flag. A new audio and lighting control system will be installed at the centre and the story of the flag told in six foreign languages to enhance the four-star tourist attraction.
Title: Aberlady Heritage Project
Organisation: Aberlady Conservation Society
LEADER Funding Awarded: £25,674
Area: East Lothian
The project includes the reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon cross found during excavations in the area. Aberlady was an important Anglo-Saxon centre and has yielded the largest concentration of Anglo-Saxon artefacts yet found in Scotland. The remaining fragment of the cross can still be seen and experts believe it is the closest sculptural representation in existence of the illuminated artwork in the renowned Lindisfarne Gospels. The reconstruction of the five-metre high cross will be erected in the Memorial Garden adjacent to the medieval kirk together with interpretive artwork and panels. Promotional leaflets for both the local community and tourists explaining the history of the cross will also be produced.
Title: Coastal Tourism Strategy
Organisation: East Lothian Council
LEADER Funding Awarded: £6,000
Area: East Lothian
Funding was sought for the development of a Coastal Tourism Strategy that would provide strategic direction for East Lothian Council and its partners to encourage sustainable tourism and provide a quality visitor experience whilst continuing to sustain and protect the rich diversity of the East Lothian coast
Title: North Berwick Lobster Hatchery Feasibility Study
Organisation: Scottsih Seabird Centre
LEADER Funding Awarded: £15,000
Area: East Lothian
The project is to commission a feasibility study to examine the possibility of successfully building and running a self-financing lobster hatchery in North Berwick
Conservation and Heritage
Title: Aberlady Heritage Project
Organisation: Aberlady Conservation Society
LEADER Funding Awarded: £25,674
Area: East Lothian
The project includes the reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon cross found during excavations in the area. Aberlady was an important Anglo-Saxon centre and has yielded the largest concentration of Anglo-Saxon artefacts yet found in Scotland. The remaining fragment of the cross can still be seen and experts believe it is the closest sculptural representation in existence of the illuminated artwork in the renowned Lindisfarne Gospels. The reconstruction of the five-metre high cross will be erected in the Memorial Garden adjacent to the medieval kirk together with interpretive artwork and panels. Promotional leaflets for both the local community and tourists explaining the history of the cross will also be produced.
Title: Aberlady Heritage Project
Organisation: Aberlady Conservation Society
LEADER Funding Awarded: £25,674
Area: East Lothian
The project includes the reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon cross found during excavations in the area. Aberlady was an important Anglo-Saxon centre and has yielded the largest concentration of Anglo-Saxon artefacts yet found in Scotland. The remaining fragment of the cross can still be seen and experts believe it is the closest sculptural representation in existence of the illuminated artwork in the renowned Lindisfarne Gospels. The reconstruction of the five-metre high cross will be erected in the Memorial Garden adjacent to the medieval kirk together with interpretive artwork and panels. Promotional leaflets for both the local community and tourists explaining the history of the cross will also be produced.
Title: Training in traditional building skills with
Organisation: Penicuik House Preservation Trust
LEADER Funding Awarded: £45,149
Area:
The Penicuik House Preservation Trust aims to work with Midlothian Training Services (MTS) to broaden the audience of the Penicuik House Project training programme and to enhance the training and work experience being delivered by MTS on the Get Ready for Work programme. The stone boundary wall at the entrance to the Penicuik estate requires rebuilding and provides an ideal training programme for the MTS construction related trainees to learn dry stone walling techniques and masonry repairs.
Title: St Andrew’s Church, in ruin, Gullane, Stabilisation and Interpretation
Organisation: Gullane and Dirleton History Society
Area: East Lothian
Amount: £29,157
The project aims to stabilise the masonry structure by removal of the ivy growing on it, repointing the walls and sealing the wallheads to improve its appearance and secure its future for at least the next 100 years. The history of the structure and its use will be investigated, recorded and a report will be produced. The latter will be placed in appropriate national archives.
Title: St Andrew’s Church, in ruin, Gullane, Stabilisation and Interpretation
Organisation: Gullane and Dirleton History Society
Area:
Amount: £29,157
The project aims to stabilise the masonry structure by removal of the ivy growing on it, repointing the walls and sealing the wallheads to improve its appearance and secure its future for at least the next 100 years. The history of the structure and its use will be investigated, recorded and a report will be produced. The latter will be placed in appropriate national archives.
Health and Well Being
Title: ‘Emplo-Young People’ Pilot Project
Organisation: Mcsence Communications Ltd
Area: Midlothian
Amount: £70,000
The key aims of this project are to address the rapidly growing problem of youth unemployment by equipping young people with skills and experience to give them an advantage in the construction skills market. It is envisaged in the first year the project will train up to 40 young people leaving school in 2009. The training programme is not part of the school main curriculum as it is aimed at those young people preparing to leave and who have just left.
Title: ‘Emplo-Young People’ Pilot Project
Organisation: Mcsence Communications Ltd
Area:
Amount: £70,000
The key aims of this project are to address the rapidly growing problem of youth unemployment by equipping young people with skills and experience to give them an advantage in the construction skills market. It is envisaged in the first year the project will train up to 40 young people leaving school in 2009. The training programme is not part of the school main curriculum as it is aimed at those young people preparing to leave and who have just left.
Food and Agriculture
Title: East Lothian Food & Drink Small Producers & Suppliers Initiative
Organisation: East Lothian Council
LEADER Funding Awarded: £22,500
Area: East Lothian
Funding was sought to assist small food and drink producers and suppliers in East Lothian to attend large scale production events e.g. Good Food Show. This would enable the producers and suppliers to develop their produce as a brand for East Lothian.
Title: Howgate Village Hall 2009 Development and Country Market
Organisation: Howgate Village Hall Association
LEADER Funding Awarded: £2,833
Area: Midlothian
To enhance and develop a country market in Howgate
Community Facilities
Title: Native Butterfly & Moth Garden
Organisation: Edinburgh Butterfly & Insect World
LEADER Funding Awarded: £4,990.30
Area: Midlothian
To create examples of gardens that could attract native butterflies and moths within the Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World. Community members will assist in the development of the gardens and will be asked to participate in the activities throughout the year.
Title: Pit Stop Cafe
Organisation: Pennypit Special Needs Youth Club
LEADER Funding Awarded: £53,340
Area: East Lothian
To provide a work based training venue for young adults in East Lothian with additional support needs
Title: Harbour Development Stage 2 Feasibility Study
Organisation: Dunbar Harbour Trust
LEADER Funding Awarded: £30,000
Area: East Lothian
The aim of this stage of the project is to conduct wave and tide modelling to allow the DHT working with marine engineers to determine exactly what sort of additional harbour structure would be required to make Dunbar into an all weather harbour, a port of refuge on this exposed section of coastline
Title: Outreach Project
Organisation: Midlothian Community Media Association
LEADER Funding Awarded: £8,923.50
Area: Midlothian
A mobile studio was to be purchased to provide more training and to involve groups in rural Midlothian and parts of East Lothian to create better quality pre-recorded programmes by having facilities on site in the community that match those in the fixed studio.
Access and Interpretation
Title: Homecoming Events Grants Programme
Organisation: East Lothian Council
LEADER Funding Awarded: £50,000
Area: East Lothian
To provide grants to community groups and organisations in East Lothian to stage events specifically linked to the Year of Homecoming 2009. Opportunity for groups to access funding towards new events for homecoming year or to extend existing events specifically for tailored for homecoming.
Title: Homecoming Grant
Organisation: Midlothian Council
LEADER Funding Awarded: £50,000
Area: Midlothian
To employ an Events and Marketing Project Officer and to develop a grant scheme to support community based events that further the development of a programme of events for Midlothian to complement the Homecoming Scotland 2009 celebration concentrating on the Scottish Ancestry “pillar”.