Chalk
and Cheese is a small independent organisation full of people that are passionate
about developing, enhancing and celebrating the diverse cultural assets
of
the local area. We work with local people, landscapes and the immense wealth of
local food & craft products and producers to cultivate opportunities for improving
the quality of rural life.
We've been around since 2002 and seem to have
packed a lot in since then! We've delivered the Leader+ funding programme, run
a range of local and international projects & activities, and taken on the
role of county wide co-ordination of the local products
sector from Dorset
Food Links. We've also been great places, met brilliant people and eaten wonderful
food
- a dirty job but someone has to do it!
There
is so much to do that we make sure we are only developing and working on projects
and activities that our local food, craft and community groups have asked us for.
So that means you need to tell us what you need.
The
future is obviously desperately exciting - local food in every outlet in the county,
Dorset culture celebrated as it should be, local people proud of their county
and everyone unfortunate enough to live outside it understanding the food, farming,
landscape and culture which is ours. Enough to keep us busy for a while.
It
would be great to be able to keep in touch with you, so for regular updates -
and we promise they'll only be of really interesting stuff, join our Local
Action Group. Go on, you know you want too….
