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The Lancashire Rural Recovery Action Plan (LRRAP) is a five year funding programme to aid the regeneration and sustainable development of the rural economy across Lancashire. Funding has been secured from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) until 2008 for a range of regeneration projects across the county. Through these initiatives the LRRAP is helping to deliver a dynamic rural economy which is financially, socially and environmentally sustainable.
The LRRAP forms part of the NWDA’s Regional Rural Recovery Plan created to tackle the fundamentals of rural economic decline and to meet its "rural renaissance" objective following the publication of the Government’s Rural White Paper in November 2000.
The LRRAP has 8 strategic objectives through which resources and activity are being delivered across rural Lancashire:
The objective of the LRRAP is to simplify support for business and community development at the point of delivery and is the first strategy and Action Plan to consider long term rural regeneration issues on a countywide basis as well as providing the resources to deliver a coordinated regeneration programme for Lancashire.
Since it began in April 2003, the LRRAP has approved almost £10 million of funding for a broad range of initiatives which have created or safeguarded over 400 jobs and helped boost the quality of life and local economy, support businesses, and improve the well-being of communities across Lancashire.
The LRRAP is continuing to work with partners to develop further initiatives across the county and welcomes new project ideas for future years which help deliver the strategic aims and objectives of the programme.
Funding for significant projects can be accessed direct from the programme. The strategic LRRAP-funded projects also provide grants and support or help to access other funding direct. The strategic projects and contact numbers are:
£1 million grant aid scheme for business development. Straightforward and accessible capital and revenue grant fund for rural businesses not eligible for existing grant schemes and to complement or replace other rural funding.
Contact: Mark Carson, LCDL on tel 01772 551888
The main objective is to renew and strengthen the recreation and tourism offer across the county through the Lancashire Rural Tourism initiative.
Contact: LRTi support team tel: 01257 226600
First-stop rural business advice and guidance and help to access a range of economic and environmental grants.
Contact: John Welbank, Lancashire Rural Futures tel: 01200 426433
The Lancashire arm of a regional initiative to assist farmers and farmer controlled businesses (FCBs) to strengthen profitability, competitiveness and to reduce the numbers of people leaving the industry.
Contact: David Hall, English Food & Farming Partnerships tel: 01457 820493
Maintains the Made in Lancashire brand and supports food producers and processors in rural Lancashire.
Contact: Lorna Tyson, Myerscough College tel: 01995 642255
Intends to extend the Made in Lancashire (Food) retail and marketing framework to support art and craft businesses in rural Lancashire to become more sustainable and competitive.
Contact: Fiona Haile, Myerscough College tel: 01995 642255
Working to support community groups who wish to develop Social Enterprise initiatives across Lancashire.
Contact: Denise Partington, Commmunity Futures tel: 01772 900251
For more information The LRRAP, LRRAP Performance Plan 2003 to 2004, LRRAP Performance Plan 2004 to 2005, LRRAP Performance Plan 2005 to 2006 and LRRAP Performance Plan 2006 to 2007, plus full guidance notes and additional information to assist the application process are available to view or download from our documents page.
