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Drop-In Sessions for Community Project Funding Posted on 22 February 2010 Groups with ideas or looking to help finance community projects are invited to drop-in sessions in March where they can find out about funding available through LEADER. Orkney's LEADER Development Officer Alister Brown said "If you've already got part funding for a project, you can get match funding of up to 50% through LEADER - it's a significant amount, and makes the job of pulling together money for a project a lot easier". The LEADER programme is aimed at small scale projects with encourage community economic development and is open to any consitiuted group and the public sector. The drop-in sessions are:
All sessions run from 7:00pm - 9:30pm For more information please contact Alister on 873535 ext. 2855 or alister.brown@orkney.gov.uk or www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/LEADER Posted on 22 February 2010 Social Enterprise Academy Coming to Orkney Posted on 04 February 2010 The Social Enterprise Academy is offering a number of free learning programmes across the Highlands & Islands this winter. These are open to anyone involved with a third sector organisation – staff, director or volunteer. The courses and dates for Orkney are shown below: Develop Your Social Enterprise Feb 9 & 10 Kirkwall Contracting Know How Feb 15 & 16 Westray
Understanding Social Enterprise Feb 18 & 19 Papa Westray Introduction to Writing Tenders Mar 2 Kirkwall For more details and application forms, please contact Kate on 01463 238088 or email kate@theacademy-ssea.org The Social Enterprise Academy will also be providing workshops at the HISEZ conference in Inverness on February 26th – see http://www.bipsolutions.com/events/HISEZ10/ for details. Posted on 04 February 2010 LEADER Increases Match Funding for Projects Posted on 15 January 2010
Groups can now apply for 50% match funding for projects through the Orkney LEADER programme - 10% more than was previously made available. Orkney Islands Council Convener Stephen Hagan said: “This is great news for community groups and makes the task of securing match funding for projects significantly easier.” The 10% increase, due to changes announced recently by the Scottish Government, should be available until the end of the Scotland Rural Development Programme in 2013. The LEADER programme is aimed at small scale projects and is open to any constituted group including charities, development trusts and the public sector. 19 projects in Orkney were approved for LEADER funds in 2009 and are earmarked to receive a total of £345k from the programme. The projects will be worth just over £1m to the county. Four projects were approved in December in round four of the funding programme, including a new kitchen for the Burray Fossil and Heritage Centre, a new path at Firth Community Park, a training course for tour guides to provide tours specific to Stromness, and a pilot scheme for in-school counselling of teenage groups with difficulties affecting their social development. Orkney’s LEADER Programme Development Officer Alister Brown said: “We will be having drop-in information sessions throughout Orkney in March where groups can come and discuss their project ideas. There will an information event funded by the Scottish Government on May 28 with information on LEADER and other funding opportunities and presentations from successful projects in Orkney. We’re still in the process of planning these events and will make details available in the local press and on the LEADER website in due course".
Anyone interested in the programme should contact Alister Brown on 873535 ext. 2855 or alister.brown@orkney.gov.uk Posted on 15 January 2010 |
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