Projects & Practice

A LEADER project used artistic creations to increase the attractiveness of a remote rural area and stimulate economic activity.

LEADER support for an arts in education project that promotes gender quality among school children in rural areas.

A young female farmer used RDP support to set up a traditional backing oven and start selling organic bread in the local area.

Setting up a niche business start-up as a canine therapy centre.

Support from the rural development programme for England enabled an entrepreneur to upgrade his ales brewing business.

LEADER support helped establish a web school for local businesses providing them with the tools to better organise their work and market their services and products.

An on-demand local bus service, ‘Bwcabus’, tailored to the needs of rural passengers has helped improve accessibility, reduced car dependency and assisted in lifting rural communities out of deprivation.

Farmers in France’s Auvergne region used EAFRD support to preserve peatland and wet meadows in two Natura 2000 areas where over a hundred farmers raise cattle.

A cooperation project brought together local farmers, inhabitants and public services managers to jointly define and promote soil preservation technics adapted to the local environment.