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Progress Update Presentation AGM – October 2016

Presentation to cover:

• Overview & interim strategy
• Animation & Communication
• Financial Update
• Schemes Update

Overview

• LAG Structures
• LAG Team
• Interim Strategy

LAG Structures

• Derry & Strabane Rural Partnership
• incorporated as Company Limited

by Guarantee in February 2016

• Rural Network NI – facilitated by

RDC to share information/ networking across all LAGs. Includes LAG boards, LAG wider membership & RDP teams. Website & e-zines.

Wider LAG (167 members) LAG Board (24 directors)

LAG Team

Rural Development Programme team:

• Deirdre Harte, Programme Manager
• Linda White, Project Officer
• Emma McGill, Project Officer
• Eilish Boyle, Finance & Verification Officer
• Hazel Best, Administrative Officer

Email: rural.development@derrystrabane.com

The Interim Strategy

• Interim Rural Development Strategy
• Approved by DAERA February 2016
• ‘Interim’ - as will be reviewed once Community Plan finalised

DAERA = Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs

Overall aims:

• 1. Creating jobs and sustainable employment in rural Derry & Strabane
• 2. Improving the quality of life of the rural Derry and Strabane area
• 3. Improving the connectedness of the area to wider opportunities

Funding Schemes & Allocations

SCHEME FUNDING %

TARGETS

Rural Business Investment: Business creation and development £2,586,000 45% 29 businesses 68 new jobs Rural Basic Services: Service delivery community hubs £1,725,000 30% 11 feasibility studies 11 projects Rural Village Renewal: Regenerating rural villages £1,206,400 21% 15 village plans 12 projects Rural Broadband: Infrastructure to address not-spots £230,000 4% 1 scheme Also Rural Co-operation measure £432,600

Animation & Communication

Animation to date

Animation Timescale Events/Consultation Numbers

Strategy consultation

Oct/Nov 2015 5 public workshops + statutory/council sessions & surveys 430 stakeholders (including 150 survey respondents)

Information events

Feb/Mar 2016 7 sessions/events 150 attendees

Pre-funding workshops

Mar 2016 Oct 2016 1st call – 6 workshops 2nd call – 5 workshops Total 11 workshops 186 attendees (& 33 x 1:1 clinics) 133 attendees Total 319 attendees

Local community planning June 2016 &

Oct 2016 Representation/ presentations at 8 Rural DEA events Approx 200 attendees

Animation in action…

Communication/PR

• Photocall launch
• 3 press releases/media campaigns
• 4 advertising/social media campaigns
• New Branding
• Image bank
• Web pages at: www.derrystrabane.com/rural
• Marketing materials – e.g conference wallet, headed paper, business cards

Communication/PR

Communication/PR

Financial Update

Programme Projected Spend:

Measure Capital/ resource 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 Total Capital Forecast 0.00 200,000.00 315,800.00 849,240.00 789,590.00 306,370.00 2,461,000.00 Resource forecast 0.00 30,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00 25,000.00 10,000.00 125,000.00 Total Forecast 0.00 230,000.00 345,800.00 879,240.00 814,590.00 316,370.00 2,586,000.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 0.00 480,000.00 685,000.00 416,000.00 86,250.00 1,667,250.00 Resource forecast 0.00 0.00 37,500.00 15,000.00 5,000.00 0.00 57,500.00 Total Forecast 0.00 0.00 517,500.00 700,000.00 421,000.00 86,250.00 1,724,750.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 0.00 0.00 230,000.00 0.00 0.00 230,000.00 Resource forecast 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Total Forecast 0.00 0.00 0.00 230,000.00 0.00 0.00 230,000.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 0.00 447,720.00 547,960.00 130,720.00 0.00 1,126,400.00 Resource forecast 0.00 10,000.00 55,000.00 10,000.00 5,000.00 0.00 80,000.00 Total Forecast 0.00 10,000.00 502,720.00 557,960.00 135,720.00 0.00 1,206,400.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 0.00 173,040.00 173,040.00 86,520.00 0.00 432,600.00 Resource forecast 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Total Forecast 0.00 0.00 173,040.00 173,040.00 86,520.00 0.00 432,600.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 200,000.00 1,416,560.00 2,485,240.00 1,422,830.00 392,620.00 5,917,250.00 Resource forecast 0.00 40,000.00 122,500.00 55,000.00 35,000.00 10,000.00 262,500.00 Total Forecast 0.00 240,000.00 1,539,060.00 2,540,240.00 1,457,830.00 402,620.00 6,179,750.00 Capital Forecast 0.00 4,831.06 0.00 2,000.00 0.00 0.00 6,831.06 Resource forecast 0.00 246,760.91 254,078.66 262,236.87 254,926.31 335,378.81 1,353,381.56 Total Forecast 0.00 251,591.97 254,078.66 264,236.87 254,926.31 335,378.81 1,360,212.62 Capital Forecast 0.00 204,831.06 1,416,560.00 2,487,240.00 1,422,830.00 392,620.00 5,924,081.06 Resource forecast 0.00 286,760.91 376,578.66 317,236.87 289,926.31 345,378.81 1,615,881.56 Total Forecast 0.00 491,591.97 1,793,138.66 2,804,476.87 1,712,756.31 737,998.81 7,539,962.62 LEADER Admin 1,360,212.62 Total 7,539,962.62 Co-operation Scheme 432,600.00 Total 6,179,750.00 Rural Broadband Scheme 230,000.00 Village Renewal Scheme 1,206,400.00 Rural Business Investment Scheme 2,586,000.00 Rural Basic Services Scheme 1,724,750.00

RBIS Funding Allocation (Call 1)

£357,900.00 £30,000.00 £305,902.50 £16,967.00 £0.00 £50,000.00 £100,000.00 £150,000.00 £200,000.00 £250,000.00 £300,000.00 £350,000.00 £400,000.00 Capital Resource

RBIS Call 1

Budget Allocated to RBIS Call 1 Funding Awarded to Applicants

Administration Budget - Expenditure to Date

£251,591.97 £109,141.91 £0.00 £50,000.00 £100,000.00 £150,000.00 £200,000.00 £250,000.00 £300,000.00 Projected Spend for 2016/2017 Spend to end Sept 2016 Administration Budget

Schemes Update

• Rural Basic Services
• Rural Village Renewal
• Rural Broadband
• Rural Co-operation
• Rural Business Investment Scheme

Rural Basic Services Scheme

Timescale/plans:

• Scoping study & Consultation (Sept-Dec 2016)
• Consultants: Blu Zebra
• Purpose: To scope options & identify priorities for targeted call
• Seminar: 27th October 2016 in Ballymagorry
• Mandatory 5% Council match funding
• Must fit with Community Plan
• 3 calls - 2017, 2018 and 2019
• 1st call – early 2017 (pre-funding workshops Jan/Feb)

BUDGET: £1.725M

Eligible Activities £5,000 to £500,000: Capital Infrastructure (innovative service delivery):

• New build or Improvement
• Equipment

£500 to £5,000:

• Feasibility study or bespoke training

Applicant: Community/voluntary or public sector

Village Renewal Scheme

Timescale/plans:

• Scoping study & Consultation (Sept-Dec 2016)
• Consultants: BDP, Juno & Blu Zebra
• Purpose: To scope scheme, selection criteria and villages
• Seminar: 27th October 2016 in Ballymagorry
• Village Plans (Dec 2016 – Mar 2017)
• Applications for capital projects - 2 phases:

2017/2018 and 2018/2019

BUDGET: £1.2M

Eligible Activities:

• 1. Environmental improvements
• 2. Derelict/vacant site enhancement
• 3. Conservation of rural heritage
• 4. Gateway projects
• 5. Shop front enhancements

Applicant: Council in partnership with community/voluntary sector

Rural Broadband Scheme

Timescale/plans:

• Given the limited budget available under this

scheme, the Partnership is planning to scope a potential pilot broadband scheme in 2017

BUDGET: £230,000

Aim: Improve rural broadband for communities in “not spot” areas Eligible Costs:

• Capital
• Equipment
• Professional fees

Applicant: Council, community/ voluntary sector

• r private sector (with

Council as applicant)

Cooperation Scheme

• Cooperation Subgroup – 9 members (Chair – Willie Lamrock)
• First meeting held in March 2016 (6 meetings to date)
• Number of potential projects ideas e.g:

– International Appalachian Trail (IAT) – Blueways/water-based tourism/recreation – Greenways

• Decision to progress International Appalachian Trail on a cross

LAG & cross border basis as first project

BUDGET: £432,600 (7%)

• Requirement for at least 2

North/South Cooperation projects

• DAERA encourage

projects with focus on unique landscape or natural resources Applicant: LAG

Cooperation Scheme

International Appalachian Trail:

• Meetings involved representation from Donegal and 4 other NI LAGs:

– Causeway Coast and Glens – Mid and East Antrim – Fermanagh & Omagh – Mid-Ulster

• Agreement to progress IAT as a Cooperation project – Derry & Strabane as lead
• Joint LAG event held at International AGM in Strabane – Sept 2016
• Best practice visit to IAT Scotland – October 2016
• Feasibility study planned

Rural Business Investment Scheme

Rural Business Investment Scheme

1st call:

• Pre-funding workshops March 2016
• Call opened 23rd May 2016 and closed 20th June 2016
• 64 Expression of Interests forms submitted, 59 eligible
• 20 applications to the call
• 9 projects funded to the value of £322,869.50
• 15.5 FTE jobs to be created

BUDGET: £2,586M

• Primary objective is to create jobs
• Micro, small and social enterprises
• Non-agricultural/non-food
• 50% funding available

Eligible Activities £5,000 to £90,000:

• Capital (new build/ improvement)
• Equipment

£500 to £5,000:

• Marketing
• Technical Support/ Bespoke training

Rural Business Investment Scheme

Project Type Business Name Location Funding Award FTE Jobs

Capital Peak Environmental Ltd Campsie £90,000 4 Capital Lloyd Cooke Motors Ltd Drumahoe £90,000 4 Capital Derg Precision Engineering Ltd Castlederg £50,000 2 Capital McKelvey Asbestos Removal Ltd Castlederg £28,583 2 Capital Sayers Engineering Castlederg £24,999.50 2 Capital CMAC Solid Surface Castlederg £22,320 1.5 Marketing Hood & Co Newtownstewart £9,745 N/A Marketing Eglinton Eyecare Eglinton £4,222 N/A Marketing Finn Valley Cottages Clady £3,000 N/A TOTAL £322,869.50 15.5

Rural Business Investment Scheme

• 2nd call now underway
• Budget of £452,930 available
• 5 Pre-funding workshops complete – 133 attendees
• 66 Expression of Interest forms received by 12th October deadline
• Call due to open from 7th November 2016 (subject to DAERA)
• Deadline for marketing applications – 28th November 2016
• Deadline for capital applications – 6th January 2017