Delivering Regeneration in Cumbria

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Delivering Regeneration in Cumbria

• Gillian Elliott and Ian Hill
• Cumbria Regeneration Support Team

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Overview

• Cumbria location and context
• The policy environment
• EU and other funding programmes
• How programmes work together
• Case studies examples of projects

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Where are we?
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Policy Context

• Regional Economic Strategy
• Produced by NW Regional Development Agency
• Key document for allocation of UK Government
  Funds for Regional Development
• Regional Spatial Strategy
• Regional spatial planning policy what
  development, and where
• Produced by NW Regional Assembly (non-elected
  regional government)
• Sub-regional strategy
• Produced by partners in Cumbria to support
  Cumbrias priorities

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EU Programmes

• Objective 2 programmes since 1988
• Major source of economic development funds in the
  region
• Recognise that we need to diversify after 2006.

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Other EU programmes

• Leader
• 2 Interreg projects one RFO
• Leonardo projects
• Current interest in Article 6, FP6

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Regional Funds 2 new delivery companies
RRural Regeneration Cumbria
WWestlakes Renaissance
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National, Regional and Local Programmes
EU Funds Government Office North West
UK Government Funds
North West Development Agency
Objective 2
Objective 3
Regeneration Support Team
Cumbria Learning and Skills Council
Job Centre Plus
Rural Regeneration Cumbria
Westlakes Renaissance
Projects
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EU Structural funds governance
Objective 2/3 Programme Monitoring Committee
Programme Management Group
Objective 2 Advisory Group
Objective 3 Advisory Group
Action Plan Partnerships
Co-financing organisations
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Objective 2 - Cumbria
Priority 1 Business and Ideas
Priority 2 People and Communities
Priority 3 Regional Infrastructure
Alston Moor Partnership 0.2m
C B I partnership business support
agencies, local authorities, 12m
Rural Cumbria Economic Development
Zone (EDZ) 6m
West Cumbria Partnership 3.5m
West Cumbria Furness Economic Development
Zone (EDZ) 12m
Barrow Partnership 2.4m
Local partnerships local authorities, NGOs,
regeneration agencies
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Integrated team

• Regeneration Support Team supports Objectives 2,
  3, Leader and regional funds
• Financed by ERDF/ESF technical assistance and
  Cumbria partners
• Management and employment by local authority

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Case Study 1 Whitehaven Community Enterprise
Unit

• Objective 2, priority 2
• Offers employment support, advice and social
  enterprise activity for unemployed people
• Refurbishment of building 167,000, 50 ERDF, 50
  regional funds
• Services to unemployed people financed by ESF
  (Objective 3) and regional funds

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Case Study 2 Osprey project

• Pandion haliaetus (fish eagle - falco pescatore
• Extinct in UK from 1919
• Project to support and promote their
  re-introduction to England
• Total Project Costs 541,095 or around 750,000
  (50 ERDF Objective 2, priority 3)
• 100,000 visitors/year, over 2m in to local
  economy
• www.ospreywatch.co.uk

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Case Study 3 Wordsworth Trust

• A study centre and historic collection for
  William Wordsworth poet and writer of the 18th
  and 19th centuries.
• Total project 3 million
• ERDF 400,000 (Objective 2, priority 3),
• Heritage Lottery (UK National Lottery) 2 million
• Developed and managed by NGO
• Iconic architecture in a National Park

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More to do

• Possible developments
• Matching the funds at source so that applicant
  makes one application
• Integrated appraisal systems
• Funding programmes to use the same targets and
  outputs
• Do different sources of funding follow the same
  strategy?