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Dover Big Local

N/A, N/A, GB • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

Big Local nationally was launched by the Big Lottery Fund in July 2010. £200m of investment supports 150 small urban and rural communities throughout the UK so they can each come together to make their areas even better places to live. Dover was selected for funding because the town may not have been very successful in gaining funding and resources in the past. Through Big Local, managed by Local Trust, Dover will receive at least £1m Lottery funding over 10 years, along with support, training, and networking opportunities, to help residents develop plans to improve their area and empower them to find solutions that work to make Dover an even more vibrant and attractive place to live, work and play.The Dover Big Local team worked with local people to discover their the views and ambitions about the future of the town. Focus groups met to put the ideas into a plan required by National Lottery to allow access to Dover's £1 million funding. Dover's plan was approved by the national Big Local organisation in 2015 and is now being put into action. Projects in the arts, green spaces and environment, sports and leisure, economy and tourism and communication are all making a difference in Dover with more exciting ideas for all these areas being developed all the time.What are the Vision & the Plan?To create Dover's Big Local Plan a Vision document was created. It was a description of what Dover people said they like and dislike about Dover today and most importantly what we would like it to be like in the future. Although a lot of ideas have been collected to develop Dover's Plan, we will keep asking Dover's people what they want to see happening throughout the Dover Big Local project, as priorities will change over the ten years of the project.A recent project is the Dover Pantry, a membership group aiming to support people with daily food shopping run mainly by brilliant volunteers who "get it" and include people using the Pantry in the team.