Scottish Borders represents the UK in Portugal
Tuesday, November 27 2007
The Scottish Borders was invited to represent the UK at a conference in Portugal last week.
Two young people from the youth film-making project A Voice of My Own, joined other local representatives at the event, to celebrate the success of the European Union funding programme, Leader+.
The film-making project was just one of the local projects that benefited from Leader+ funding.
Members of the Scottish Borders Leader+ Local Action Group (the partnership of local organisations that manages the Scottish Borders programme) also attended the conference (on November 21-23).
They gave a presentation on their experience of managing and participating in Leader+.
Since its launch in 2002, the Scottish Borders Leader+ programme has provided more than £2 million grant funding to local projects.
The current programme closes at the end of December. It will be replaced with a new one, which will run from 2008 to 2013 and will focus on the development of rural communities and the rural economy.
Councillor Vicky Davidson, Scottish Borders Council’s Executive Member for Economic Development, said: “Being invited to represent the whole of the UK at this event is a high-level recognition of the superb work which has being going on here in the Borders. The key to that success has been the close partnership work with local communities, helping them to find funding for innovative rural development projects.
“We look forward to equally innovative and ambitious projects coming forward through the new Leader programme.”
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