In programm of "Implementing local development strategies" can obtain financing for the following tasks:
- Diversification into non-agricultural activities
- Creation and development of micro - companies
- Village renewal and development
- Small projects

1. Diversification into non-agricultural activities

Money for what?

1) Assistance shall be granted for taking up or development activities:
2) services for agricultural or forestry;
3) services for population;
4) wholesale and retail;
5) trade or handicraft;
6) works and services, construction and installation;
7) tourism and related sports, recreation and leisure;
8) transport services;
9) utilities;
10) processing of agricultural products and edible forest products;
11) warehousing or storage of goods;
12) production of energy from biomass;
13) accounting, consulting and IT services.

Who can get help?

An individual insured under the Act of 20 December 1990 social insurance for farmers, as a farmer, the farmer's spouse or household member.

The form and amount of aid:

Reimbursement for 50% of the eligible costs of the operation up to max. 100,000 zł.


2. Creation and development of micro ? companies

Money for what?

1) services for agricultural or forestry;
2) services for population;
3) wholesale and retail;
4) trade or handicraft;
5)works and services, construction and installation;
6)tourism and related sports, recreation and leisure;
7) transport services;
8) utilities;
9) processing of agricultural products and edible forest products;
10) warehousing or storage of goods;
11) production of energy from biomass;
12)accounting, consulting and IT services.

Who can get help?

A individual or legal person or agency having legal personality, which leads (take) a micro-enterprise activity with fewer than 10 people, and having turnover exceeding the equivalent in zł of  2 million euro.

The form and amount of aid:

1) 100 000 zł - if the business plan envisages the creation of 1 to 2  regular posts full-time equivalent average), which is justified by the material scope of operations;
2) 200 000 zł - if the business plan envisages the creation of more than 2 and less than 5 regular posts (in FTE average), which is justified by the material scope of operations;
3) 300 000 zł - if the business plan envisages the creation of at least 5 regular posts (in FTE average), which is justified by the material scope of the operation.
In the case of processing of agricultural products (covered by Annex 1 to
Treaty of the European Communities) or edible forest products, the maximum
the amount of aid granted to any one beneficiary, during the execution of the Program is 100 000 zł.


3. Village renewal and development

Money for what?

Financial assistance granted to operators for investment in:
1)construction, reconstruction, repair of facilities or equipment:
a)discharging public functions, socio-cultural, recreational and sports,
b)for promoting rural development, including promoting and maintaining
historical heritage, traditions, art and culture,
2)making the area a public space;
3)building renovation or reconstruction of infrastructure related to the development of tourist functions, sports and socio-cultural;
4)purchase of objects characteristic of the tradition of building in the region, including the building of monuments, to be used for public purposes;
5)restoration, display and preservation of local historical monuments, buildings, monuments and places of memory;
6)tradition of cultivating the local community and traditional professions.

Who can get help?

Legal person: community, cultural institution for which the entity is organized
local government, church or other religious association, organization
Non-governmental organization with the status of public benefit (as defined in the Act
24 April 2003 on public benefit activities and voluntary work).

The form and amount of aid:

Reimbursement of up to 75% of eligible project costs. The maximum amount for projects in one place is 500 000 zł and a minimum 25 000 zł.
Required national contribution of public funds amounting to at least 25% of eligible project costs, comes from its own resources of the beneficiary.


4. Small projects

Money for what?

1)Raising awareness of the local community, including through training and other activities of an educational workshop for actors and the area covered by LSR, other than those carried out under the action referred to in Article. 5, paragraph. 1, point 1 of the Act of 7 March 2007. to promote rural development with the participation of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development;
2)Raising the quality of life of local communities in the area covered by the LSR, including:
- Providing equipment and computer equipment, including facilities and equipment
allowing access to the Internet,
- Organization of cultural events, recreational or sporting;
3)Developing local community activities, including:
- Promotion of local cultural creativity with the use of local heritage,
including cultural, historical or natural,
- Cultivation of local traditions, rituals and customs,
- Cultivating a regional language and dialect,
- Cultivating the traditional professions and crafts;
- The development of tourism and recreation in the area covered by the LSR, including:
- Create or modernize the base and selected tourist information
websites, preparation and publication of folders and other publications
information concerning the area covered by the LSR,
- The construction, reconstruction or marking small tourist infrastructure in
particular vantage points, places of recreation or camping, trails
Cross-country skiing or downhill, waterways, cycle routes,
horse trails, walking paths or teaching;
- Conservation, restoration, preservation or marking of valuable local
landscape and natural heritage, in particular areas
various forms of nature conservation, including the Natura 2000;
4)Preservation of local historical and cultural heritage, including:
- Reconstruction or renovation of buildings or marking, or small objects
registered in the architecture or the historical records of the provincial
monuments,
- Renewal of the roof or external elevations of buildings entered into the register
monuments or historical records of provincial,
- Repair or equipment of museums,
- Repair or recreation facilities in rural;
5)Initiating the generation, processing or marketing of products and services based on local resources, traditional sectors of the economy and local heritage, including cultural, historical or natural, or improving the quality of such products;
- Use of energy from renewable sources in order to improve conditions for the pursuit of economic or cultural activity, including agriculture.
- Development of local activity and economic cooperation by initiating the formation,
- The development, processing, market and raise the quality of products and services based on local resources, including natural raw materials and agricultural and forest products, traditional sectors of the economy and the local cultural heritage, historical and natural.

Who can get help?

1.Individuals who are:
- Nationals of EU Member State,
- Adult,
- Check for permanent residence in the area covered by the LSR, or carry out business activities in this area;
2.Legal persons or organizational units without legal personality,
- The Act confer legal capacity:
- Operating under the provisions of the relations between the State and the Catholic Church in the Polish Republic, for your relationship to other churches and religious associations and the guarantees of freedom of conscience and religion, established in the area covered by the LSR, or operating in the area covered by the LSR, or created on the basis of provisions of laws, including foundations or associations, which are resident in the area covered by the LSR, or conduct business in this area.

The form and amount of aid:

Reimbursement of no more than 70% of eligible costs of the operation.
The amount of aid granted for the performance of operations may not be less than 4500 zł and shall not exceed 25.000 zł. 


Where can I get money?

Applications for funding the costs of the project will be made after the announcement of the competition. Information about the competition will be published in local newspapers and on the www.zakolewisly.pl and offices will be transferred to the 4 municipalities included in the Bend.
Assistance in completing the application will be available in the office of the Vistula River Bend LAG offices and municipalities.

1. Bottom-up approach- concepts of joint action, influencing the development of the area have come out from the same population ?local leaders?;

2. People involved in creating a vision to develop the area working in partnership, including planning and implementation of the representatives of three sectors: social, economic and public, who organize the Local Action Groups;

3. Integrated approach- manifests itself in combining operations, resources and development opportunities of representatives of different sectors. Activities so far begin to diffuse complement, stimulate;

4. A territorial approach is to find areas consistent in terms of geographical, economic, historical, cultural, natural micro-(and not administrative units) and building their local strategies taking into account their specific;

5. Innovation- experimentation, the search for new effective approaches and methods for integrated and sustainable development;

6. Local financing and management- means so that the funds for the development, implementation of local strategies to get a partnership, a group of persons cooperating for the development of his ?small homeland?;

7. Networking and cooperation between partnerships - joint projects, exchange of experience on a regional scale and international development and stimulates innovation and increases the impact LEADER-type approach.