RDPE: Taking Stock and Sharing Knowledge

This seminar was jointly run by the RDPE Network and Northern Rural Network (NRN). Its aim was to provide an update on RDPE evaluation studies now underway or nearing completion, exchange information on project delivery and how to maximise available funds over the remainder of the Programme and consider how EU rural development funding programmes may evolve in the longer term.

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• Introduction to the RDPE Network - Rebecca Frost, Programme Manager RDPE Network
• RDPE in action: A local case study in Cumbria - John Geldard, Plumgarths Farm Shop Ltd
• Defra's Leader Impact Assessment - Ian Baker, Defra
• Update on the North East RDPE evaluation - Mark Reynolds & Adam Wellings, Genecon
• Future of CAP & the Rural Development Regulation - A European Perspective - Janet Dwyer, CCRI

The afternoon discussion groups enabled participants to hear about the ideas and experience of a number of local projects in the north which are benefiting from RDPE funding, including:

• Abbott Lodge Jersey Ice Cream near Penrith;
• Coastal Grains Ltd, Belford, Northumberland;
• Cumbria Woodlands, Kendal;
• Kentmere Hydro, Kentmere;
• Learning Fields, Appleby-in-Westmorland; and
• Overwater Marina, Nantwich.