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Yorkshire Forward has announced a new business plan which sets out how the Development Agency is responding to the challenges the region faces from the economic downturn and how it is working to ensure that the regional economy is able to respond quickly to the upturn when it comes.Yorkshire Forward has announced a new business plan which sets out how the Development Agency is responding to the challenges the region faces from the economic downturn and how it is working to ensure that the regional economy is able to respond quickly to the upturn when it comes.

Goole is to gain a 25 year Masterplan with the help of the Yorkshire Forward Renaissance Towns Programme as the Agency looks to help guide the future investment and development of Goole, home to the country’s largest inland port.

We support sustainable rural towns in Yorkshire and Humber. By working closely with local stakeholders, we’re ensuring that our rural towns remain places where people can easily live, work, visit and invest.

What could our market towns look like in 2032? This document summarises Yorkshire Forward's research 'Market Towns of the Future - Yorkshire and Humber', published in 2007, which aims to identify the opportunities and threats facing market towns as a result of worldwide, national and regional challenges over the next 25 years.

The Tockwith and District Show will take place on Saturday 1st August 2009, at Cattal Moor Lane, Tockwith.

The Great Yorkshire Show is the North's leading agricultural event and takes place from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 July on the 250-acre Great Yorkshire Showground on the edge of the spa town of Harrogate.

As part of our responsibility for delivering the European Community support in our region, Yorkshire Forward manages LEADER, part of the Rural Development Programme for England. LEADER brings together local stakeholders to decide on how best to develop their local rural area.

Yorkshire Forward is investing £9.5m of UK/EU funds every year until 2013, to help improve rural communities and to support rural businesses. Find out about our investments, and how you could benefit.

LandSkills is a £3m programme designed to boost the technical skills, and therefore the competitiveness, of the region's agricultural, horticultural and forestry sectors.