Action Groups - Weaving it all together

The Valley Weft
The Valley Weft binds everything in the Valley together – creating social, economic, physical and environmental connectivity.

During the five Town Workshops issues emerged that were common to all the Valley. At the Bringing it All Together Weekend in June, groups of people with similar interests worked together to explore these topic-based issues in more detail, supported by additional consultants from Yorkshire Forward’s Rural Renaissance Panel.

Action Groups were then formed to identify priority projects and the actions needed to deliver them. The main work of the Action Groups and the Steering Group through the Spring of 2004 will be to further develop and refine these actions and create an Investment Plan that will deliver the Renaissance of the Upper Calder Valley as a whole.

This section of the document has been written by the Action Groups in collaboration with John Thompson & Partners and contains a short summary of the groups’ strategies and key projects. More detailed Action Plans have been (or are being) developed by each of the Action Groups who are now prioritising projects and identifying when and how they will be implemented and by whom. These Action Plans will then be brought together as part of the Upper Calder Valley Investment Plan.

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