Programme Calls

Current Calls

Our latest call is for Linking Projects (villages and farms).  Community groups or organisations who would like to develop projects and activities on this topic should contact the programme team and discuss their ideas or develop them on our project ideas pages.

Our second call was for village events under the community arts and events theme. This call closes on the 20th February 2010.  If you need any help with your project application or ideas please contact the programme team.

Our first call was under the community growing theme and was calling for projects for community allotments and/or community gardens.  This call is now closed and we are appraising the applications that we have received. We will release news about this as we move forwards.

Further details are available in the appropriate call document (click on links below).

• Link Projects
• Village events
• Community allotments

More about Calls

The programme themes will be used to issue 'calls' for projects. Calls are essentially a request for Expressions of Interest on a particular theme. Calls will enable both the LAG and potential applicants to focus on specfic areas within a theme and will help the LAG to target work in  areas that they feel will best meet the local development strategy (LDS). It will also allow us to deliver a better service to applicants. For more information on calls see below.

The calls will be repeated in each year of the programme so that each theme is the subject of a call in each year. Each call will have a slightly different emphasis within the theme and as the scale of demand within any particular theme becomes clear the LAG may issue more general calls and/or target calls to areas which are under represented in terms of the planned outputs of the Local Development Strategy (LDS).

The current programme plan envisages the following calls in the future:

15 Dec 2009 - Community Growing (allotments and gardens) - Deadline 20 Jan 2010
15 Dec 2009 - Community Arts (events and shows) - Deadline 20 Feb 2010
15 Feb 2010 - Link projects (villages and farms) - Deadline 22 Mar 2010

Summer/Autumn 2010 - Community Growing (Orchards)
Summer/Autumn 2010 - Community Arts (media, narrative)
Summer/Autumn 2010 - Link projects (schools and farms)

Autumn 2010/ Spring 2011 - Community Growing (landscaping)
Autumn 2010/ Spring 2011 - Community Arts (poetry and song)
Autumn 2010/ Spring 2011 - Link projects (Tourism) 

Further Information About Calls

The Central Warwickshire Villages LEADER programme needs, at least in the short term, to manage the number of Expressions of Interest (EOI) submitted to the LAG for several reasons:

• the procedures have not as of yet been well defined or tested as to how they will work in practice. This only applies to initial calls and in the short term.
• once EOIs are submitted they need to be processed within a set time period and the LAG appraisal group, and LAG itself, are limited in the number of applications they are able to handle at any one time
• there is likely to be an initial rush to develop project ideas which have built up during the programme development phase and this also needs to be managed to some extent to avoid disappointment to community groups

The LAG proposes to issue three calls in the first instance; one on each of the programme themes. These will be community growing (allotments and gardens), community arts (events and shows), and link projects (communities and farming)

After the first three calls (to Mar 2010) the subject of the call will not limit more general applications for larger projects with the proviso that the LAG needs to be informed first through the programme team before EOIs are submitted. Any speculative EOIs submitted are likely to be rejected on the grounds that they don’t meet the specific requirements of the current calls although they may be resubmitted once a relevant call is launched.

Any projects submitted outside of call guidelines will need to provide reasons why the project needs to be commissioned in this way. Reasons could, for example, include in order to be able to fit the outputs within the funding period or deliver the required outputs in a certain seasonal timeframe.

Smaller projects are encouraged to come forward so that they might be joined with other communities who have similar ideas, signposted to larger service projects or directed to more relevant and easily obtainable grant funding.

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