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Activity	Successful local produce
Objective	To promote the LEADER area as a location of quality produce.
	To develop commercially sustainable food producers
	Create access to new markets for small food and drink producers
Outcome	Business support for existing food producers to develop through consistency of quality of product and robustness of supply chain.
	A cooperative of food producers with distribution hubs to enable efficient marketing, distribution and sales to local retailers and caterers or regional and national outlets.
	To support the cooperative in marketing and advertising that supports brand.
Scope	Joint marketing and product development.
	Development of cooperative.
	Support and training for local food and drink producers.
	Transfer of knowledge.
	Collaborative research in key sectors.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	50% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £25,000 - £125,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £125,000

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Activity	Developing effective Business Networking
Objective	Increase the success and survivability of local businesses.
	To celebrate local businesses.
	Encourage and support current and future business leaders.
	To support skills development and capacity building across all sectors in pursuit of economic and community sustainability.
Outcome	Building capacity in rural businesses and communities.
	Connection with the Dales business community to the mainstream regional and national activities.
	An improvement plan for business networks.
	Sustainable business plan for key networks.
Scope	Develop business networking.
	Celebration, awards, conferences.
	Cross marketing for business networks
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	50% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £10,000 - £60,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £60,000

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Activity	Artistic Dales
Objective	To improve the commercial strength of artists in the LEADER area.
	Create a higher profile for artists in the LEADER Area.
	Development of new markets for local artists.
	To promote the area to new audiences.
	To contribute to the vibrancy of the area and provide cultural interpretation.
Outcome	A range of initiatives leading to the development of a successful artist community.
	Arts initiatives that connect with tourism to celebrate the dales and bring enhanced tourism activity to the area.
	Arts initiatives that make links to and profile sustainability issues.
	Arts initiatives that celebrate being an artist in the greater Yorkshire Dales.
	Promotion of local artists nationally and internationally.
Scope	Training, promotion and marketing support.
	Initiatives that interpret and develop the heritage landscape in contemporary ways.
	Transfer of knowledge.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	40% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £10,000 - £75,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £75,000

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Activity	Outdoor industry collaboration
Objective	Improve the quality of the Yorkshire Dales "outdoor adventure" brand in the national and international markets.
	Link potential customers to suppliers of services.
	Increase the success and survivability of new and established outdoor adventure providers.
	Increase the number of visitors using outdoor adventure suppliers.
	Link outdoor adventure suppliers to accommodation providers.
Outcome	A responsive, sustainable cooperative network of individual providers of services for the outdoor adventure market.
	An improvement in individual and collective product through collaboration.
	Industry led collective approach to marketing the Yorkshire Dales as a destination for outdoor adventure.
Scope	Development of a sustainable outdoor industry network or cooperative.
	Collaborative/joint marketing through publications, branding and shows.
	Collaborative development between businesses.
	Networking and skills transfer.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	50% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £20,000 - £60,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £60,000

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Activity	Estates business opportunities scheme
Objective	To increase the income and long term success of Estate assets and products to bring in new business opportunities.
	To increase the amount of business space for new and high growth firms in rural locations.
	To increase the production of renewable energy from locally sourced products including bio mass and hydro power.
	Improve the tourism potential on estates
Outcome	Collaboration between estates to achieve new business opportunities.
	Small and medium-sized estates learning from established initiatives.
Scope	Sharing of best practice, demonstration.
	Networking, facilitation and skills share.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	50% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £10,000 - £30,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £30,000

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Activity	New business opportunities through IT
Objective	To convert IT infrastructure into business activity by focusing on sites at or near threshold of creating locations for business clusters with high capacity broadband requirements.
	Increase the number of high growth knowledge intensive businesses in the Dales.
	Develop successful business communities using high capacity broadband.Promote the Dales as a competitive business location.
	Change the digital perception of the Dales as a place for business.
Outcome	New approaches to working with IT.
	The attraction and creation of new businesses to the area.
	Two locations as centres for high data capacity handling.
	Business clusters with high broadband capacity requirements.
Scope	New approaches to attraction of business.
	Demonstration sites.
	Audit of areas with strong broadband coverage.
	Business broadband campaign.
	Campaign to attract businesses to rural locations.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	60% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000 - £90,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £90,000

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Activity	Supporting collaborative ventures to improve competitiveness
Objective	To support and facilitate links, networks, collaborative and collective actions identified through rural farmer network.
	To raise the profile of local breeds and agricultural produce.
	To facilitate improvement in the end product of farming and of other primary land based products.
	To support local and traditional skills.
	To support collaboration and cooperative working within businesses & community groups to increase opportunities for sustainable economic growth.
Outcome	The pump-prime development of a Yorkshire Dales Farmer Network covering the Leader area.
	The facilitation of smaller farmer groups to achieve group outcomes to benefit agricultural business activities, building on the strong links between the farming land use, landscape, environment and heritage.
	Engagement with existing schemes/groups supporting, promoting and marketing local produce.
	Strengthening of linkages to other upland Leader groups.
	A strengthening of supply chains, and linkages to holdings in agri-environment scheme agreements.
	Raising the profile of local breeds.
	Increased cross-sectoral activities leading to better integration & economies of scale &long term eco-sustainability.
	Increased communication in these sectors leading to improved sustainability.
Scope	Capacity building, skills share and training to support or establish sustainable LEADER area farmer network.
	Collaborative projects from needs identified through network.
	Feasibility study.
	Marketing and publicity.
	Sharing assets and maximising resources.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	80% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000 - £25,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £25,000

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Outcome	Strengthened communities, through greater involvement in local heritage. Involvement of a wide cross-section of the community.
	Increased awareness of natural, built and cultural assets.
	Skill development and training, new transferable skills – project management, survey, communication, report writing etc.
	Maximisation of existing information about natural, built or cultural assets of an area. Identification of assets "at risk".
	Repository of publicly available information.
Scope	Environmental awareness actions and investments associated with the maintenance, restoration and upgrading of the natural heritage.
	Studies and investments associated with maintenance, restoration and upgrading of the cultural heritage.
	Improving access to areas of high environmental amenity.
	Research and feasibility studies.
	Events and activities.
	New heritage groups established.
	Assisting with provision of, or improvements to, access, recreation, interpretation, signposting, exhibitions etc.
	Improving the sensitive use of built heritage, natural and cultural resources.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	80% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £50,000

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Activity	Caring for the parish
Objective	To support community-based collaborative initiatives involving more than one parish area, that will conserve, maintain and enhance characteristic natural and built features of village environments, as the basis for sustainable economic growth.
	To encourage local communities to value their local environment and improve the sensitive use of built heritage, natural and cultural resources and assets.
	To increase the capacity of rural communities to identify and implement priority actions designed to improve quality of life.
	To facilitate and promote cooperative working, social inclusion and social cohesion between Parish communities and third sector organisations.
Outcome	An increase in the number of community led actions to enhance rural heritage and environmental regeneration.
	Increased co-operative working, skills share and training between communities.
	Enhancement of the infrastructure for rural enterprise.
	An increase in community safety initiatives.
	Local employment generation.
Scope	Collaborative environmental actions involving more than one parish area.
	Training, knowledge sharing and capacity building.
	Awareness actions and resources associated with the mainten-ance, restoration and upgrading of the natural and built heritage.
	Small-scale infrastructure projects that develop or enhance the village environmentIntegrated village initiatives to promote cross-community development and regeneration.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	75% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £165,000

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Activity	Building sustainable communities
Objective	To enable and facilitate communities/community groups to audit their activities and to identify and implement actions that will increase their environmental sustainability through reducing their Carbon footprint.
	To facilitate grant applications needed to implement Carbon reduction action plans.
Outcome	An increased awareness of climate change mitigation.
	Production of sustainability audits/ecological footprinting, using established methodology across a wide cross-section of the Dales community.
	Action plans to reduce carbon footprint and locally-agreed Carbon reduction targets.
	Generation of "grassroots" interest and support for "low Carbon communities".
	Improvement in the sensitive use of built heritage, natural and cultural resources.
	Identification of best practice in environmental sustainability through mentoring and skills share.
	A network of organisations who can help in implementing carbon reduction action plans.
Scope	Skills share, community capacity building.
	Collaborative environment audit and action plans.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	80% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £75,000

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Activity	Green infrastructure opportunities based upon culture, heritage and environment
Objective	To support integrated village initiatives which promote cross-community development, regeneration and a green recreational infrastructure.
Outcome	An enhanced green recreational infrastructure, to encourage greener visitor and community activity/ recreational opportunities resulting in an improvement of the green economy.
Scope	Small-scale infrastructure projects.
	Small-scale capital and resource investment.
	Marketing support.
	Innovative projects using emerging technologies.
	Green recreational projects, including cross LEADER boundary working.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	40% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000 - £20,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £100,000

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Activity	Supporting use of local and traditional skills
Objective	To promote training in traditional craft skills to conserve and enhance the environment and built heritage, with particular focus on young people.
	To encourage collaborative partnerships between rural networks towards skills share and training.
	To create strong linkages with the agricultural sector and agri-environment schemes.
Outcome	Increased collaborative rural skills training, apprenticeships and rural skills projects.
	Increased young people involved in environmental and landscape management and apprenticeships using traditional skills.
	Increased mentoring in rural skills training and development.
Scope	Capacity building, networking and mentoring in rural skills training and development.
	Interpretation and materials.
	Capital investments, research studies, audits.
	New projects delivering rural skills training.
	Existing rural skills projects developed.
Maximum amount LEADER can fund to	50% Intervention
	Minimum/Maximum £5,000 - £30,000
	Total fund available over 3 years: £30,000

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