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