IHBC’s members who make use of LEADER funding and arrangements to help deliver projects in rural areas will be interested to learn of new guidance for the transition period of 2014 and the change in focus onto jobs and growth.
Highlights of interest for members to note may include:
- Questions are being invited via local rural development trust contacts (these will be regulalrly updated in the Q&A updates)
- Q1.12- Guidanace on the use of LEADER funding for community projects (where job creation is not necessarily the main direct focus)
- Q1.16- an explanation of European regulations and their LEADER programme measures
- Q2.7 and 2.7- information on new groups applying, or those who have already applied
- Q4.4- skills eligibility and funding
- Section 9- information on delivery of the programme
