Lots of activity recently to update readers:

We have received some positive feedback about our Grassroots Grants funding application, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we will see a positive outcome on that in the next few weeks. If so that will really enable us to move forwards much more quickly.

I presented the project to the councillors and community representatives on our local area committee the other day, and the feedback was really positive. I now need to follow that up with some concrete proposals about how they can help us to deliver the project.

We have been working with our friends over at Calder Valley Our Net to submit a joint bid to the South Pennines Leader programme for grant support to enable us to devleop both projects more effectively and also deliver some awareness raising and early stage support right across the South Pennines area, a rural patch covering around a quarter of a million people. If we could create a few cooperative networks across that area, that would be a great outcome.

I've been exploring other funding and support opportunities that might enable us to get things going more effectively, and I'll post more news on that as and when anything crystallizes.

All in all everything is going very well.