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  • Who is managing the feasibility study?

    The feasibility study is being run by The Green Valleys Community Interest Company (TGV CIC) with funding from the Friends Provident Foundation.  TGV CIC is a local social enterprise with experience of community woodland and energy projects. 

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  • What work will be done during the feasibility study?

    The most important work will be working with communities to explore what it might mean and to understand the risks and opportunities.  The feasibility project will be seeking to answer some of the following questions: 

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  • Can you imagine your valley in 5 years? In 20 years? Maybe even in 100 years?

    What might a community choose to do with the land if it could plan not for the three years of a Lottery grant but for three generations? Create jobs from forestry? Support small-holdings or food projects?  Improve public access? Support wildlife?  Or a combination of ideas and more besides. 

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Catching dreams in Aberfan

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Wed, 10/03/2018 - 18:19
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Lynne Colston and Aaron Phillips from Aberfan (Ynysowen) talks about her dreams and worries.
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Wed, 10/03/2018 - 18:16
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Library

Here are links to a number of resources that have informed our work on Skyline.

  • Alastair McIntosh's Soil and Soul
  • Andros Linklater's Owning the Earth: the transforming history of land ownership 
  • The Welsh Government's National Assets Working Group's, Community Asset Transfer in Wales - A Best Practice Guide
  • Small is Successful - This report examines eight smallholdings with ecological land-based businesses on 10 acres or less. The smallholdings demonstrate that economically viable and highly sustainable land based livelihoods can be created on holdings of this size. 
  • The Summit2Sea project in Wales.
  • Transforming landscapes and identities in the south Wales valleys
  • NRW's report: Opportunities for managing the Rhondda's natural resources.
  • CarnegieUK Trust's international evidence for Turnaround Towns and their December 2017 report, Supporting Local Places and Local People: Opportunities and Challenges for Welsh Towns.
  • Farnearer.com for a selection of the projects around the UK where communities are building economic resilience.

Know if other research, reports, blogs, or resources about community action to develop stronger local communities and economies, then email me a link to skyline@thegreenvalleys.org and I will add it to the library. 

 

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