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Award-winning, Chilterns-based artisan cheesemakers Nettlebed Creamery increased productivity and employed 30 members of staff by developing and implementing two new projects funded by LEADER programme grants.
The last shop in Wigginton village in the Chiltern Hills shut its doors more than a decade ago. A small group of passionate residents agreed that the community needed and would benefit from a new shop and café selling local produce to local people, and providing a new community hub.
Second-generation dairy farmers have embarked on plans to diversify and drive sustainable growth thanks to a £19,000 grant from the LEADER Programme.