Areasquare kms Population

Sweden 449 964 9 500 000 Estonia 45 226 1 300 000 Spain 504 782 46 030 000 Hungary 93 030 9 960 000

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Närheten 5-year anniversary!

Leader Närheten

• Non governmental and non profitable organization

• Purpose to develop rural area in the Karlstad region

• Area includes the municipalities of Grums, Kil, Forshaga,

Hammarö and the rural parts of Karlstad

• About 70 000 people live within the Leader area. Half of

them live on the country-side. Half in smaller towns, with

at least 3 000 inhabitants.

Budget

The total budget for all Swedish Leader areas is about2,4 billion SEK (2,4 million Euro). This is around 7% of the budget for the total rural development program, which is 36 billion SEK.

Leader Närheten has a total budget of 29,3 million SEK (2,9 million Euro) to help developing good ideas during the program

period.

8,5 million SEK in the Leader Närheten budget are contributions from the participating municipalities.

Local Action Group

• The board of the NGO and responsible for executing the Leader program

• All sectors are represented in the board

• Even gender selection of members

• Even geographical spread to insure local roots

Strategy

Like all Leader areas, the Leader Närheten has a formal

strategy that identifies the needs of the area and how to

prioritize among project applications.

Main Themes:

• Development of trade and industry

• An attractive environment

Strategy more in detailDevelopment of trade and industry

• Enhance competitiveness in farming and forestry

• Promote entrepreneurship

• Complementary activities to farmers

• Tourism

Strategy more in detailMore development of trade and industry

• Support to a group of entrepreneurs in cooperation is permitted

• Support to trans sectorial cooperations permitted

• Direct support to a single businessman or a single company is

outside the scope of the Leader program

(Leader support must not distort competition)

Strategy in detail

Attractive environment● Enhance quality of life using wild nature and cultural setting● Create physical and social meeting points● Promote settlements in rural areas, especially located close to

towns and cities, as they are attractive● Improve infrastructure and different kind of public service

The Närheten Message

Leader Närheten dispose of funds to realize good ideas.

Local forces in cooperation may obtain financial support.

Together we will contribute to rural development.

Cooperation

Number of projects 2008-

Number of completed projects

Main projects 40Smaller projects in accis 1 12Smaller projects in accis 2 4Smaller projects in accis 3 21Smaller projects for young people 24Smaller projects to realize good ideas 51Totalt 152

Figures from years past…

Completed projects 2008 - 2011

Number of projects

Financing from Leader Närheten

Complementary factual

co-financingValue of

non paid work

Corresponding nr of whole time

employment (1800 hours per

person)

97 8 931 106 SEK 1 461 267 SEK 6 237 520 SEK 19,8

Participation

Numbers Numbers in %

Members in project groups 399Of these female 177 44 %

Of these young people 87 22 %

Projectmembers 1274Of these female 536 42 %

Of these young people 198 16 %

Nya företag

Nya nätverk

Nya arbetstillfällen

Bevarade arbetstillfällen

Nya produkter

Nya tjänster

Projekt som ökar antalet besökande

Projekt med ungas entreprenörskap

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Utveckling av näringslivet

Utfall(antal)

Nya mötesplatser

Fysiska anläggningar

Livskvalité genom kultur- och fritid

Projekt om natur- och kulturarvet

Projekt för bygders gemenskap

Projekt med mål att öka inflyttningen

Projekt med IT-inriktning

Förbättrar ungas livskvalité

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

En attraktiv boendemiljö

Utfall(antal)

New companies

New networks

New employment

Maintained employment

New products

New service

New visitors to a specific area

Young entrepreneurship

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Development of trade and industry

Experienced result

Expected result

New meeting points

Increasing quality of life through cultural or leisure time activities

Rural community

Focused on IT

Projekt om natur- och kulturarvet

Projekt med mål att öka inflyttningen

Projekt som förbättrar ungas livskvalité

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

The attractive environment

Experiencedresult

Expectedresult

Sustainability

Projects that are continued six month after ending projecttime 52 st 54 %

Hannäs Equastrian Center

Enhance access and attractiveness to ”Norra Hyn”

Träningsverkstaden

Study trip to Vadsbro milk production plant

Leader Närheten office

• Håkan Svenneling – ManagerHead of office, handles applications, spokesperson

• Karin Bohlin – Economy and assistansResponsible for economy and administration

• Emma Ericson – Project leader small projectsHandles small projects, public relations

• Jens Karlsson – Project leader SportfishingResponsible for a project focused on sport fishing tourism in three Leader areas in Värmland

Leader Närheten staff

Emma, Karin, Håkan

Karin, Håkan, Emma och Jens

Postal address: Box 49, SE-664 21 Grums, Sweden

Visitor´s address: Sveaplan 3, Grums

Tel: +46 555 45 99 98 E-mail: info@narheten.se

www.narheten.se

Contact information