Taking the Reins - Country Connections

 

Circles Network, an organisation based in Dunchurch, have secured LEADER funding for a project called 'Country Connections'.

The project uses Equine Facilitated Learning to work with disabled/disadvantaged or rurally isolated families and young people from the Central Warwickshire area.  

Latest news and related projects

  • Live & Local Ltd have secured LEADER funding for a Rural Cinema Network.


    The project is a two year initiative, running from 2012, to establish a rural cinema network in Central Warwickshire. It will provide high quality, portable screening equipment and technical/marketing support ... to your doorstep!


     

  • Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has secured funding to deliver a LEADER funded ‘service’ project called 'Gardens Go Wild' across the Central Warwickshire Villages patch.

    The Gardens Go Wild project aims are to encourage more people to consider wildlife in their gardens, allotments and community green spaces. We will be providing support and information, and rewarding villages for the positive steps they take to improve their green spaces for wildlife. FREE Activities as part of the project will include:

  • Warwickshire Rural Hub, based at Stoneleigh Park, have secured LEADER funding for three years for a 'festival of the harvest' This projects aims to teach children in Central Warwickshire how to connect with their food. Not just the eating bit, but it's production from soil to fork.

  • The Church Lawford Players have secured three years of LEADER funding to set up and establish a new singing group. 

    The project entitled ‘Lets Sing’ encourages all members of the community to come along and have a go, regardless of ability.They also hold a school holiday singing club for children and young people.  A vocal coach supports the group, and they are steadily increasing their numbers from across several villages around their hub.

  • Funding has been awarded for a Rugby Waterways Festival and Rural Youth scheme.

    This project, delivered in partnership with Harborough Magna Parish Council and the local canal-based businesses, aims to raise awareness of the Oxford canal as a valuable local resource.