The East Leicestershire LEADER programme ran from 2015 - 2020 with almost €2 million (approximately £1.5 million) available in total for the East Leicestershire area.

The East Leicestershire LEADER area incorporated a large rural area to the East of the City of Leicester. The whole of Melton and Harborough districts were within the eligible area as well as parts of Charnwood and Blaby districts. This included the market towns of Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Lutterworth.

A map of the East Leicestershire LEADER area can be seen below.

Grants of between £7,500 and £75,000 were available to eligible projects (subject to other funding programmes).

There had been a total of 44 successful LEADER projects in the Farming, Tourism and Rural Business categories with the total value of the projects coming to £3,823,659. Grants were awarded at 40% of eligible expenses in most cases, achieving a total grant allocation of £1,475,048.

You can see a list of the East Leicestershire LEADER Grants awarded below.

View case studies from East Leicestershire LEADER funded projects, along with other case studies:-