Prospective entrepreneurs wishing to become a Landscope Project must clearly demonstrate their suitability according to the following criteria:
We are willing to consider innovative projects related to primary land use (such as energy crops or horticulture); secondary uses that create locally distinctive goods and services from adding value to primary products (such as woodcraft, herbal or medicinal culinary products and biofuels), and tertiary projects ranging from environmental education, theatre and art, to ecological design initiatives inspired by nature. Wherever you fit, you must demonstrate clear understanding of your relationship with the land.
Projects should offer creative solutions to the sustainability challenges of our time, for example rebuilding fertility into our soils and diversity into our woodlands; developing management structures that acknowledge limits to growth and operate with the natural cycles of regeneration; enabling radically reduced carbon living, and building resilience into the local rural economy.
Projects must be financially self-sustaining with robust business plans and competent individuals behind their proposed implementation. To be a successful, ongoing concern, each individual venture needs to stand on its own feet in today’s economic terms.
Project proposers must demonstrate an adaptive approach; willing to develop their projects to maximise synergy with existing projects and activities, and support the development of complementary businesses and projects around them.
Successful proposals will demonstrate understanding of the need to build resilience, supply local markets and work with local suppliers and this will be written into the market assessment of their business plan.
Examples may include re-using waste from one activity as a resource input into another; creating internal markets for products and services; sharing skills and equipment, and establishing joint venture projects and partnerships.
Landscope selection criteria
