Who are the Fens Adventurers?
The Fens Adventurers are a Local Action Group (LAG), a partnership of local entrepreneurs and professionals representing interests in farming, rural business, and tourism as well as other specialties
relevant to the Cambridgeshire & West Norfolk Fens. The partnership was set up in late 2007 in response to calls from the EU for LAGs to form across all member states and bid for funds to
deliver parts of their national rural development programmes through the ‘Leader’ approach.
Named after the original “Adventurers”, the 17th century entrepreneurs who invested in the drainage of the Fens by contracting the Dutch engineer Vermuyden to create today’s fertile farmland,
the Fens Adventurers LAG submitted their Local Development Strategy (LDS) to the East of England Development Agency in March 2008 and were successful in obtaining £4million to deliver this
strategy from 2009-13 within a defined geographic area within the Cambridgeshire & West Norfolk Fens.
Download the
Fens Adventurers LDS and a map of the Fens Adventurers area.
What are the Fens Adventurers Priorities?
The Fens Adventurers LDS focussed on channelling this money through four priorities, whilst also considering how the money could be used to address national priorities of responding to climate change
mitigation and increasing public access to the countryside. For more information on the Fens Adventurers plans please click on the relevant priority below:
| Sustainable food and farming: | Rural business development: | Sustainable rural tourism: | Enterprising communities: |
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| increase the competitiveness and sustainability of the land-based sector by supporting added value and diversification ventures, and develop skills in the workforce | address economic underperformance and contribute to the sustainable development of the Fens by supporting micro enterprise start-up, enhancement of existing enterprises that benefit the area as a whole | build upon the environmental assets of the Fens to develop the area as a high quality visitor destination and a "green lung" for the growth area | sustain the viability of rural communities by enabling local communities to deliver better services and activities which enhance quality of life |
| Responding to climate change Access to the countryside |
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