Delivering Regeneration in Cumbria

Gillian Elliott and Ian Hill

Cumbria Regeneration Support Team

Overview

Cumbria – location and context

The policy environment

EU and other funding programmes

How programmes work together

Case studies – examples of projects

Where are we?

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 Cumbria’s

priorities

EU Programmes

Objective 2 programmes since 1988

Major source of economic development funds in the region

Recognise that we need to diversify after 2006.

Other EU programmes

Leader+ 2 Interreg projects – one

RFO Leonardo projects Current interest in Article 6,

FP6

Regional Funds – 2 new delivery companies

RRural Regeneration

Cumbria

WWestlakes Renaissance

National, Regional and Local Programmes

Rural Regeneration

Cumbria

North West Development Agency

EU Funds: Government Office North West

Westlakes Renaissance

Objective 2 Objective 3

Cumbria Learning and Skills

Council

UK Government Funds

Regeneration Support Team

Projects

Job Centre

Plus

Objective 2/3 Programme Monitoring Committee

Objective 2 Advisory Group

Objective 3 Advisory Group

Action Plan Partnerships

Programme Management Group

Co-financing organisations

EU Structural funds governance

Priority 1:

Business and Ideas

Priority 2:

People and Communities

Priority 3:

Regional Infrastructure

C B & I partnership:

business support agencies,

local authorities, £12m

Alston Moor

Partnership£0.2m

West Cumbria

Partnership£3.5m

Barrow Partnership£2.4m

Local partnerships: local authorities, NGOs, regeneration agencies

Rural Cumbria

Economic Development

Zone(EDZ)£6m

West Cumbria

& Furness Economic

Development Zone(EDZ)£12m

Objective 2 - Cumbria

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

Project supportand development

Policy and intelligence

Appraisal, monitoring,reporting and

financial claims

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

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

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

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?