Issued: 3 December 2002
Innovative Rural Project
A project to assist businesses and community groups to work together to improve the economic prosperity of rural Tayside has been launched.
The Project Steering Group (PSG) of the Tayside Rural Development Facilitation Project met for the first time last week in Blairgowrie.
With the formation of this group, the final piece of the project, which will see two rural development facilitators work in partnership with rural communities, is now in place.
The PSG is made up of representatives from the local statutory agencies and local communities and businesses in rural Tayside.
The group will oversee the project and review initiatives. It will also consider ideas, prioritise, and monitor the success of the project.
Opening the meeting, Councillor Joy Mowatt, Angus Council’s vice-convener of Economic Development, said. “I am delighted to be part of this project aimed at fostering partnerships that would contribute towards making our rural economies vibrant and sustainable.”
At the meeting, Mary Mitchell, Programme Manager Scotland for LANTRA, was elected chairman.
Councillor Hugh Anderson, Perth & Kinross Council’s Convener of Planning and Economic Development closed the meeting by summing up that this project will provide a new way of working together to make rural areas better places to live, work, and do business.
The project has been financed by Angus Council, Perth & Kinross Council, Scottish Enterprise Tayside and the European Regional Development Fund though the East of Scotland Objective 2 Programme.