August 21st, 2008
Guide to rural funding launched
There’s a new place to turn for rural businesses and communities wanting to find out about ways to access EU and Defra funding via One NorthEast. A new user guide to the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has been launched online at http://www.rdpenortheast.co.uk/page/userguide.cfm. The guide includes information on every step of the process, from the priorities for investment to how land-based and other rural enterprises, and rural communities, can access the cash. RDPE was approved by the EU in January, and is now well underway in the North East. Worth £3.9bn overall across England, the 7 year programme - jointly funded by the European Union and Defra – aims to make agriculture and forestry more competitive and sustainable, and to develop micro-enterprise, bioenergy and sustainable communities in rural areas.
20 August 2008
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