{"id":5135,"date":"2026-10-27T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadergrogrund.se\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:12:23","slug":"26-10-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadergrogrund.se\/en\/26-10-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to those elected to the municipal and regional council in J\u00e4mtland H\u00e4rjedalen 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>To you who have been elected to the municipal and regional council in J\u00e4mtland H\u00e4rjedalen:<\/h2>\n<p>A warm welcome to one of the finest and most important assignments one can receive. You will make decisions about schools, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and security. But you also have authority over something that easily falls between committees and budget items: people's own power to develop the place where they live.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Leader plays a key role. Leader is a method where associations, businesses, and public actors meet around the same table to drive development based on the community's own needs and ideas.<\/p>\n<h3>Real difference<\/h3>\n<p>In Krokom, Leader contributes to the sports hall Allhallen. In Str\u00f6msund and Ragunda, the project Prepared helps associations strengthen local crisis preparedness. Other initiatives focus on entrepreneurship, leadership, culture, and meeting places. It is rarely the grand words that make a difference \u2013 it is when someone receives support to make an idea possible.<\/p>\n<p>Through the municipalities' and the region's co-financing, local resources are leveraged with state and European funds, combined with private financing and voluntary work. The local effort thus becomes the starting point for a significantly larger investment.<\/p>\n<h3>A development office close to the people<\/h3>\n<p>But the value lies in more than money. Our Leader offices are development offices close to the residents. Here, there are employees who help test ideas, find partners, manage finances, and guide from thought to implementation. The project coaches know their communities, genuinely care about the people behind the ideas, and understand that the path to a completed project requires both conversations and revisions.<\/p>\n<p>This is the core of the Leader model: local anchoring, personal commitment, and collaboration. The value continues in new networks and in the experience of being able to actually influence one's own home region.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we must report what the money yields in results. That is why knowledgeable guidance, follow-up, and long-term conditions are required.<\/p>\n<p>Our call to you Our call to you as new and re-elected members is simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>See Leader as a partner. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Safeguard the long-term co-financing<\/strong> \u2013 also for the work of the development offices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use us as a resource<\/strong>, and feel free to come out and meet the people behind the projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is in those meetings that you see what rural development actually means.<\/p>\n<p>Anders Brom\u00e9e, <em>Chair Leader Grogrund<\/em><br \/>\nPer Bergvall, <em>Chair Leader 3sam Str\u00f6msund\u2013Ragunda<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader is rural development that starts where the people are<\/p>","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":3949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyheter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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