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North Yorkshire:

European Structural Funds Programmes 2000-2006 are providing grants totalling about £550m to help create wealth and jobs in many parts of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and The Humber.  North Yorkshire is the largest county in England, comprising rural uplands, rural lowlands, coast, market and country towns.  

Scarborough, York and Harrogate are the largest population centres.  Delivery of the programme is taking place against a backdrop of rapid technological, social and economic change.  However, whilst unemployment is falling, business survival rates are improving and GDP is rising at a faster rate than the UK average, not all communities in the Structural Funds Areas are benefiting.  North Yorkshire has lower than average earnings in its more remote rural areas and a dependence on agriculture and tourism. 

The Programme areas cover Market Towns and their hinterland in the North Yorkshire Dales and Moors and much of the coastline, including Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington; the benefit of which will be to make them better places to work, live and visit.