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Gloucestershire Food Vision will be shaping the future production, supply and consumption of food in the county and beyond.
The Gloucestershire Rural Issues Task Force (RITF) recommends to the Gloucestershire First Partnership, actions to deliver local initiatives.
For more information contact Robin Grist on 01242 864195 or email robin.grist@networkglos.co.uk
View 'The Rural Economic Strategy for Gloucestershire 2003-2010'
SMART (Skills Management and Rural Training) Programme
This Gloucestershire project offers tailored training in ICT, marketing and resource management, conservation and the environment, health & safety and business and financial management.
For more information visit www.smartglos.org
Gloucestershire Agricultural and Woodland Champions
A project to identify and support “Demonstration Woodland Businesses” to develop innovative ideas that deliver the aims of Sustainable Forest Management (profitability, improved biodiversity & active social inclusion).
For more information contact Sally Lawrance at sally.lawrance@gloucestershire.gov.uk
The
CFIRS (Communities First in Rural Somerset) Group have produced Action Plans
for four themes of the Delivery Plan. Somerset County Council are devoting
resources to collating these into a single Action Plan
for Somerset.
These documents will be publicised as soon as they are available, in the meantime, please contact Paul Hickson on 0845 3459166 , email phickson@somerset.gov.uk or write to: Somerset County Council, Corporate Team, County Hall, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 4DY
Parrett Catchment Project (PCP)
Local agencies and people came together in 2000 to form the Parrett Catchment Project (PCP), whose aim it is to take action to address the issue of flooding now, rather than storing up problems for the future.
The PCP's Roadshow 'A future when it rains' toured Somerset in 2005. It kicked off in Bridgwater on 27 October, offering the opportunity for local people to see, hear and discuss water and environmental issues and the work underway to reduce flood risk in Somerset's flood-prone Parrett catchment.
For more information about this event you can view the Newsflash or visit the website www.parrettcatchment.info/
Both nationally and regionally Wiltshire has a number of distinctive and striking landscape qualities. Some of the more striking features are as follows:
- 80% of the nation’s important chalk downlands are located in Wiltshire
- Less than 10% of the 260,667 hectares farmed is occupied as smallholdings
- The other 90% of holdings have an average size of 225 hectares
- 44% of the county is classified AONB
- 940 Sites of Special Scientific Interest exist within Wiltshire
- World Heritage Sites (Stonehenge and Avebury)
- 21,089 registered archaeological sites and monuments within the county
Sowing the Seeds - Planning the future of the countryside in Wiltshire
Sowing the Seeds: Planning the future off the countryside in Wiltshire - a report on the Wiltshire Rural Event, Monday 25th October 2004.
For more information on the Wiltshire SFF, contact Helen Clift on 01225 713200 or email Helen.clift@wiltshire.gov.uk
Last updated 25Apr2008