RuralDown.org.uk
Title
Rural Down Partnership
Description
The Rural Down Partnership is the implementing body responsible for administering LEADER+ funds to the value of £1.45 Million in the rural parts of Ards, Banbridge and Down Council areas until December 2006. The Partnership, which successfully delivered the LEADER II Initiative in the area between 1994 and 1999, is incorporated as a Limited Company.
The Partnership aims to support a total of 88 projects throughout the duration of the LEADER+ Programme and has developed four themes under which funding for rural based projects may be sought. The four themes are:
Funded by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the European Union, Ards Borough Council, Banbridge District Council and Down District Council, the Rural Down Partnership hopes to achieve its objectives by exploiting opportunities, stimulating innovative projects and targeting areas of need. The LEADER+ Programme is aimed at micro-businesses (employing ten persons or less) from the private sector. Projects should target priority groups (women, young people, farmers and farm families, long-term unemployed). The LEADER+ Programme being delivered by the Rural Down Partnership is aimed at the rural wards of Ards, Banbridge and Down Council areas as follows:
Additional Information
- Agriculture
- Ards
- Ards Borough Council
- Banbridge
- Banbridge District Council
- Competitive Rural Businesses
- Consolidate Rural Employment
- Countryside
- Department
- Development
- Down
- Down District Council
- Employment In Rural Areas
- Europe
- European Union
- Farming Community
- Farming Community Support
- Financial Assistance
- Financial Support
- Funding
- Income Generation
- Innovative
- Innovative Rural Businesses
- Leader
- Micro Business
- Micro Business Development
- Niche Rural Businesses
- Northern Ireland
- Programme
- Redundant Rural Buildings
- Rural
- Rural Area
- Rural Businesses
- Rural Community
- Rural Community Support
- Rural Development
- Rural Development Programme
- Rural Down
- Rural Dwellers
- Rural Economy
- Rural Enterprise
- Rural Entrepreneurs
- Rural Environmental Issues
- Rural Funding
- Rural Ideas Stimulation
- Rural Micro Businesses
- Rural Regeneration
- Rural Tourism
- Sustainable Business
- Sustainable Businesses
- United Kingdom
- And
- Business and Economy
- European Union Community Initiative
- LEADER
- Micro-business
- Micro-business Development
- Of
- Regional
- Rural Micro-businesses