Case studies
Here you can view case studies from the Southern Oxfordshire LEADER project.
| Creation of Shotover Brewery |
A grant of £20,425 towards the creation of a commercial microbrewery in a redundant agricultural building. To enable the making, packaging and selling of a locally produced branded beer. |
| Radley Lakes |
New Life for Radley Lake will open up and improve Thrupp Lake an unusual and unique rural location to visit. With the help of Leader funding the project will enhance this wetland, its scenic value, and its wildlife. |
| Pennyhooks Farm Craft Barn |
A grant of £36,000 to build craft workshops & a small farm shop to be rented to the Pennyhooks Project for the creation of training & jobs for the current students with autism. |
| Kindling and firewood production, Oxford Wood Recycling Ltd |
A grant of £24,441 to enable kindling and firewood to be manufactured from the clean waste wood that is currently collected. This additional income will make the social enterprise viable in the longer-term and offer additional work opportunuties. |
| Fox & Hounds Uffington |
A grant of £20,000 to create two double letting rooms, one of which will have disabled facilities, each with an en-suite shower room, within an existing old storage building. |
| Cold Store for Poultry, Peach Croft Farm |
To insulate and install chilling equipment in part of a large portal building to increase the amount of refrigerated storage available to Peach Croft Poultry Ltd during its seasonal peak, whilst enabling the use of the building as a general store for other parts of the year. |
| Park Farm Featherdown Farm Days |
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To convert a barn, and install six tent bases and associated drainage works as part of a joint business farm diversification and tourism venture. |
| The Oxford Bread Group |
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The project is to invest in equipment to provide the required capacity for the processing of specialist grain into flour for "artisan" bread and the production of straw for thatching. |
| TRACTOR |
TRACTOR (Training Rural and Agricultural Communities Towards Optimising Resources) is a pilot project designed by the Environmental Information Exchange to help organisations reduce the costs of energy, waste, water and transport used. |
| Upton village hall improvements |
The project is to extend and improve Upton Village Hall by lengthening the existing hall by 15 ft. The project will provide a store room for equipment belonging to the hall and organisations using it and create a small meeting room. |
| Tortoise in Love |
A community film initiative which aims to bring the local community together, encourage volunteering and build local skills. |
| Step Farm, Faringdon |
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This project helps to increase the energy efficiency of a new milking parlour and to provide facilities for educational visits. |
| Children's Food Festival |
The fesival was held at the Northmoor Trust for Countryside Conservation farm at Wittenham Clumps, it attracted 14,500 visitors. |
To aid the efficiency of the farm holding by providing a new fit for purpose cold store to remove field heat and to cold store fruits and field vegetables.A grant of £13,599 was provided.
A grant of £31,045 to establish a farm shop and tea room in Dorchester on Thames.
Create a dedicated business space to act as a local hub to support homeworkers.
To regenerate Folly Tower to encourage the public to visit the building.
This project involved the purchase of a new firewood processor and a hydraulic chain timber deck.
The project was to perchase a home delivery service vehicle with sing writing for Dews Meadow Farm.
The development of a community run shop in Brightwell cum Sotwell.