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National Perspective

In July 2004, guided by the Rural Strategy 2004, DEFRA asked each Government Office to submit a rural delivery pathfinder proposal for their region. The aims of these Pathfinders are to experiment with and test:

Ways of achieving more joined-up delivery of services in rural areas, addressing economic, social and environmental issues through a partnership approach;
Where practicable, innovation in rural development and delivery of services in rural areas, building as appropriate on existing best practice;
Better prioritisation of existing resources, in line with local priorities, towards areas, communities and people with the greatest needs.

These aims reflect the Rural Strategy 2004 priorities, i.e.: tackling disadvantage and social exclusion in rural areas, helping underperforming rural economies to begin to catch up with the best, and ensuring that the natural heritage is protected. The intention is to develop a more devolved and modernised approach to rural delivery.

There are 8 rural delivery pathfinders in the pathfinder family as follows:-

For further information on the national perspective or the other rural delivery pathfinders, please visit the DEFRA website - see attached link.