Welcome to Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER

MOST RECENT AWARDS

Scottish Native Woods have been awarded £4,502 towards the community consultation and training phase of the Tay Western Catchments Project.
Mugdock Makkers have been awarded £6,212 towards getting consultancy help with business planning and team building.
Drymen Church have been awarded £38,000 to help with the building costs of re-modelling the church interior and creating an annex to provide modern purpose built, all week community facilities.
RSPB have been awarded £30,000 to help them to re-create salt marsh and saline lagoons in their demonstration Skinflats Tidal Exchange Project.

LEADER is a rural development programme aimed at small-scale, community-driven projects that are pilot and innovative in nature.  

Our aim is simple. We want to assist those inspired to take forward innovative or pilot projects which are supported by the wider community. By awarding grants of up to 50% of eligible costs, we want to help you to improve the quality of life in your communities in rural Forth Valley and Lomond through projects which bring about revitalised communities and enhanced natural environments.  

Our area includes rural Falkirk, Clackmannanshire, Stirling and part of West Dunbartonshire lying within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. (It excludes Alloa, Bo'ness, Falkirk, Grangemouth, Polmont, Stenhousemuir and Stirling City).

For a map of our eligible area click here.

To view our promotional  flyer click here.

The Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER programme is managed by a Local Action Group or LAG which brings together people from community organisations, rural businesses and public agencies.
Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER is one of twenty LEADER programmes currently operating throughout rural Scotland.

Funding of £2.77 million has been awarded to the Forth Valley and Lomond area as part of the Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007 - 2013. For a link to the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP) click here.