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Legacy Brochure Foreword LEGACY BROCHURE FOREWORD LEADER supports Community Led Local Development and in the Forth Valley and Lomond area there are some great examples of communities and businesses delivering economic, community and environmental projects. IMPROVING THE QUALITY The Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER Local Action Group has identified five themes based on the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals and applied these to the specific challenges and OF LIFE IN RURAL opportunities we face in Forth Valley and Lomond. This brochure illustrates the projects we have supported over the last five years and shows how some communities and businesses are already: FORTH VALLEY 1. investing is sustainable economic actions; 2. creating resilient and smart communities; 3. fostering partnership working; AND LOMOND 4. addressing inequalities and social inclusion, and; THROUGH REVITALISED 5. preparing climate actions. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there is so much more that can be done. What we show you here, we are sure, will inspire COMMUNITIES AND you and guide your communities thinking while you plan for the uncertainties ahead, and seek to access funds as they become ENHANCED NATURAL available in the future. LEADER Legacy Group, 2020 ENVIRONMENTS Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER Local Action Group 3 Supporting Community Led Local Development £2,169,055 LEADER LEGACY through LEADER INVESTED IN Our experience in Forth Valley and Lomond, is that the strongest, With this current phase of LEADER1 coming to an end, the Forth most resilient, innovative and most effective projects are those that Valley and Lomond LEADER Local Action Group2 (FVL LAG) is have the community at their heart. keen to ensure that the learning and breadth of activity The case studies included here give a better understanding of the supported in the current programme be recorded for the benefit real impact of LEADER and Community Led Local Development. of future programmes and future projects which will continue Confidence, experience, life skills, mental health improvements, 59 to develop in the area. wellbeing, physical activity, friendship, improved income In this last programme, £2,169,055 was invested in 59 projects with opportunities, diversification, survival, access to services and PROJECTS an average award of £36,764, ranging from £3,000 to £250,000. support, are just some of the additional benefits of LEADER LEADER funding levered in a further £4,952,396 into the area projects – the benefits that are often overlooked when we try and through the projects supported, a total of 75 jobs have been to quantify the impact. directly created, and a further 42 safeguarded. 332 enterprises A key part of LEADER is about learning and sharing learning, have participated in LEADER funded projects, 56 community so we asked every project to share some aspect of learning. facilities have been created or improved, 38 projects have focussed This experience will help guide the development of future on the environment, 33 have benefited young people, and 39 have community and locally led projects. benefited disadvantaged groups. UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Future 117 Recent policy work on the future of rural development in Scotland has looked towards the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals JOBS and FVL LAG has long been struck by how the LEADER method of 1 LEADER is an EU instigated initiative called Liaisons Entre Actions de delivery as well as LEADER objectives overlap with these. We also l’Economie Rurale (Linkages Between Activities in the Rural Economy). believe there is potential to achieve so much more by focusing on LEADER has been jointly funded by the EU Agricultural Fund for Rural these goals. Development and the Scottish Government. The purpose of our legacy work, which includes this brochure, 2 The existence of a Local Action Group is one of the defining features of the a series of videos and workshops, is to look to the future and LEADER programme. It is a locally based group made up of community and help prepare the area to recover from the Covid19 pandemic, public sector members who oversee the development and implementation face an economic life outside of the EU and deal with Climate of the strategy for the area. Change. Undoubtedly there will be other major changes that will impact on rural Scotland over the next ten years but the learning gained during this programme can make a vital contribution to 56 future success. We have structured this brochure around the UN COMMUNITY Scottish Rural Sustainable Development Goals, grouped into our five themes. We Development Programme believe this approach will become even more important as rural FACILITIES Scotland faces the changes ahead. 4 5 CONTENTS CASE STUDIES Forward ......................................3 CREATING RESILIENT AND INVESTING IN SUSTAINABLE PREPARING CLIMATE FOSTERING PARTNERSHIP SOCIAL INCLUSION AND LEADER Legacy ......................4 SMART COMMUNITIES ECONOMIC ACTIONS ACTIONS WORKING ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES 01 Arcadia Sculpture Pods .............. 8 13 Achray Farm Ice Cream ..............32 27 Bowling Viaduct 36 Bannockburn House 44 Barrwood Camp-Ground Phase 2 Works ...............................60 Phase 1 ...............................................78 Extension Project ..........................94 02 A Refurbishment and 14 Arnprior Glamping 59 PROJECTS Relaunch of Art School ..............10 Pods and Pool ..................................34 28 Foraging Fortnight .......................62 37 Falls of Leny Visitor 45 Braeport Centre Redevelopment WERE SUPPORTED Destination: Delivering Feasibility Study ............................96 03 Balquhidder Community 15 Balmaha Pontoon Project..........36 29 Loch Earn Railway Path ............64 the Heritage Hub ...........................80 RESULTING IN Broadband Project .......................12 46 FVL Cycle Tourism Officer .......98 Bonniebunks Preparatory Costs Foraging 16 .....................................38 30 38 Local Food and 04 FVL Community Co-operation Project ...................66 Drink Coordinator .........................82 47 Gartness Glamping ...................100 Broadband Officer .........................14 17 Central Scotland School of Jewellery Station Road Link Path, Killin Care Cottages .......................................40 31 39 John Muir Way: Project One 48 05 Crowdfunding Coaches .............16 Blanefield ........................................... 68 Phase 1 .............................................102 18 Dounans Conference, Meeting Marketing and 06 Drymen Community and Events Venue and Outdoor 32 Promotion of Cycle Tourism Business Engagement ...............84 49 Killin Music Festival 2016 ......104 Business Hub ..................................18 Centre Renewal ...............................42 in Rural Scotland ..........................70 40 John Muir Way: Project Two 50 Eco Camp and Associated 56 Two Creating a Sustainable 07 Kilmarnock Old Kirk 19 Glass Blowing Studio ...................44 33 Tyndrum Community Infrastructure at CASE STUDIES Feasibility Study ............................20 Cycle Path .........................................72 Income Stream and Loch Katrine .................................106 20 Fishing around the Forth ...........46 Developing the Brand .................86 08 More than a Post Office ...............22 34 Weigh Ahead Business 51 Mugstock Festival .....................108 21 Fordhead Tea Plantation ............48 Development ...................................74 41 FVL LEADER 09 Regional Food Hubs ......................24 Legacy Project ................................88 52 Our Little Outdoor 22 Gartmore Glamping ......................50 Looking to the Future 35 #Wildwonders ................................76 Classroom ......................................110 10 Smart Digital Village ....................26 42 Maid Of The Loch with the Chair of Tea House 23 Enhancing The Loch 53 The Stomping Ground .............112 FVL LAG ..................................120 Social Enterprise Hub in Japanese Garden ...........................52 11 Lomond Experience .....................90 Loch Lomond And The 54 Tyndrum Community The LEADER Approach ....121 24 The Japanese Garden Trossachs National Park ............28 43 West Highland Way: Woodlands Bike Skills at Cowden Castle ...........................54 Thank you...............................122 A More Sustainable Future .....92 Park Design ...................................114 12 Strathard Business Loch Lomond Coffee Development Officer Post ..........30 25 ....................56 55 The Arns Glamping Pods .......116 Mugdock Courtyard 26 56 Kota Lodges at Development .....................................58 Wester Third Farm ....................118 6 7 Name of Project: PROJECT AIMS PROJECT CREATING RESILIENT AND SMART COMMUNITIES SMART AND RESILIENT CREATING ARCADIA SCULPTURE PODS Arcadia Arts Centre aims to create a centre of ACHIEVEMENTS Applicant: excellence in Environmental Art and a cultural • The project commenced in January legacy for the local area. This will be achieved by: 2020 and the initial stages of R MULHOLLAND LTD • Developing a unique visitor experience within construction progressed well, but the National Park and encouraging tourists to due to extremely wet weather www.robmulholland.org spend more time in the area. we encountered difficulties in • Creating a profitable and sustainable income to preparing the ground site. assist with the development and running costs • We overcame these problems, FUNDER
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