The Scottish Rural Partnership Fund
When the Deputy Minister for Environment & Rural Development announced the successful projects from the 2005/6 round of the SRPF in March this year, he also indicated that this was to be the final round of the SRPF in it's current form and the Scottish Rural Partnership Fund has been closed, and no further rounds of the programme will be held. This affects all programmes under the SRPF banner including the Rural Challenge Fund (RCF), Local Capital Grants Scheme (LCGS), and Rural Strategic Support Fund (RSSF).
A consultation on the future of the Fund was carried out in 2004 . A full report of the consultation process is available; and the main findings are presented in the Executive Summary. Ministers are currently considering the outcomes of this process and the form of any replacement funding stream. We expect to announce the results of this process soon.
A list of successful projects in the final round of SRPF can be accessed here. More than £3 million was awarded, and this funding became available to the successful projects from 1 April 2005.
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