Submitted by the LEADER Administrator on behalf of The Rural Media Company (Nic Millington)

Our approach to increasing the sustainable numbers of volunteers and thereby building local capacity is essentially a simple one.

This project would bring together mid-Warwickshire communities and Boka Halat in a series of workshops to create new ‘ceilidh’ dances. These would feature as part of a later tour to those communities under the Live & Local banner of their popular AfroCeilidh evening.

The project would give young people in mid-Warwickshire the

RoSA is a registered charity that supports victims of sexual violence, and their families, in Rugby and surrounding districts.  The Craft.com project would encourage people of any age or ability who support this type of work to explore and develop their creative skills, using a range of art and craft materials.

It would be really good to join the villages up in Central Warwickshire using the latest Internet technologies. A LEADER village network could be created which would facilitate community cohesion, sharing of best practice and sharing of resources.

Last year we worked with the Henley in Arden arts group who had received £10,000 from the national lottery. We were commissioned to write four 15/20 minute plays based around the history and culture of Henley, these were all performed on the same day at different locations in and around the village by schools, drama societies, youth groups etc. The event brought together the participants into a community of practice that celebrated Henley and created an arts event that was performed and attended by all ages.