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Royal Border Bridge at Berwick

Our projects and programmes are located across the area, underpinning the growth and transformation of your Borderlands.

Borderlands projects and programmes

The projects and programmes support the four strategic investment themes of the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal.

  • Enabling infrastructure 

  • Improving places

  • Supporting business, innovation and skills

  • Encouraging green growth

Some began at Deal signing in 2021 and have already been finished, while others are in the project development stage and will complete within the ten year lifetime of the Deal.

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Explore our projects and programmes

Discover all the details about our projects and programmes below.

Enabling infrastructure

Calves in the igloo Dairy Nexus
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Dairy Nexus Project

Project: Dairy Nexus 

Location: Dumfries and Galloway 

Theme: Supporting Business, Innovation & Skills 

Project lead: Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) 

Funded by: UK Govt & Scottish Govt 

 

Status: In development 

Stranraer Marina
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Stranraer Marina

Project: Stranraer Marina 

Location: Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway 

Theme: Improving places - Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Dumfries and Galloway Council 

Funded by: Scottish Government and Dumfries and Galloway Council 

 

Status: In development 

Mountain Bike Innovation
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Mountain Bike Innovation Centre

Project: Mountain Bike Innovation Centre 

Location: Innerleithen, Scottish Borders 

Theme: Supporting Business, Innovation & Skills 

Project lead: South of Scotland Enterprise 

 

Funded by: UK Government 

 

Status: In development

Berwick upon Tweed with a few houses and one of the bridges.
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Berwick Theatre

Project: Berwick Theatre

Location: Berwick, Northumberland 

Theme: Improving places

Project lead: The Maltings (Berwick) Trust 

 

Funded by: UK Government and Northumberland County Council 

 

Status: In development

Improving places

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Chapelcross

Project: Chapelcross

Location: Dumfries and Galloway

Theme: Encouraging green growth 

Project lead: Dumfries and Galloway Council

 

Funded by: Scottish Government, UK Government and Dumfries and Galloway Council 

 

Status: In development 

Mountain biking in the 7Stanes
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7Stanes Development

Project: 7Stanes Development

Location: Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders

Theme: Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Forestry and Land Scotland

Funded by: Scottish Government 

 

Status: In development 

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Chapelcross

Project: Chapelcross

Location: Dumfries and Galloway

Theme: Encouraging green growth 

Project lead: Dumfries and Galloway Council

 

Funded by: Scottish Government, UK Government and Dumfries and Galloway Council 

 

Status: In development 

Mountain biking in the 7Stanes
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7Stanes Development

Project: 7Stanes Development

Location: Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders

Theme: Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Forestry and Land Scotland

Funded by: Scottish Government 

 

Status: In development 

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Star of Caledonia

Project: Star of Caledonia

Location: Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway 

Theme: Improving places

Project lead: Gretna Landmark Trust

 

Funded by: UK Government 

 

Status: In development

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Digital Borderlands

Project: Digital Borderlands

Location: Borderlands wide 

Theme: Enabling infrastructure

Project lead: Cumbria County Council

Funded by: UK Government, Scottish Government  

 

Status: In development

River Sark Gretna
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Star of Caledonia

Project: Star of Caledonia

Location: Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway 

Theme: Improving places

Project lead: Gretna Landmark Trust

 

Funded by: UK Government 

 

Status: In development

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Digital Borderlands

Project: Digital Borderlands

Location: Borderlands wide 

Theme: Enabling infrastructure

Project lead: Cumbria County Council

Funded by: UK Government, Scottish Government  

 

Status: In development

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Digital Borderlands

Project: Digital Borderlands

Location: Borderlands wide 

Theme: Enabling infrastructure

Project lead: Cumbria County Council

Funded by: UK Government, Scottish Government  

 

Status: In development

Supporting business, innovation and skills

A birds eye view of Chapel Cross
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Chapelcross

Project: Chapelcross

Location: Dumfries and Galloway

Theme: Encouraging green growth 

Project lead: Dumfries and Galloway Council

 

Funded by: Scottish Government, UK Government and Dumfries and Galloway Council 

 

Status: In development 

Mountain biking in the 7Stanes
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7Stanes Development

Project: 7Stanes Development

Location: Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders

Theme: Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Forestry and Land Scotland

Funded by: Scottish Government 

 

Status: In development 

River Sark Gretna
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Star of Caledonia

Project: Star of Caledonia

Location: Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway 

Theme: Improving places

Project lead: Gretna Landmark Trust

 

Funded by: UK Government 

 

Status: In development

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Digital Borderlands

Project: Digital Borderlands

Location: Borderlands wide 

Theme: Enabling infrastructure

Project lead: Cumbria County Council

Funded by: UK Government, Scottish Government  

 

Status: In development

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Borders Railway Extension Feasibility Study

Project: Borders Railway Extension Feasibility Study

Location: Borderlands wide

Theme: Enabling infrastructure 

Project lead: Borderlands Partnership

Funded by: UK Government, Scottish Government 

 

Status: In development 

Encouraging green growth

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Hadrian's Wall

Project: Hadrian's Wall

Location: Northumberland and Cumbria 

Theme: Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Northumberland County Council 

 

Funded by: UK Government

 

Status: In development 

View of Leaderfoot Viaduct from the River Tweed in Scottish Borders
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Destination Tweed

Project: Destination Tweed

Location: Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders & Northumberland 

Theme: Destination Borderlands 

Project lead: Tweed Forum with Scottish Borders Council

Funded by: Scottish Government and UK Government 

 

Status: In development 

A lone cyclist on the road on a bright sunny day
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See More Lake District Cycling

Project: See More Lake District Cycling

Location: Cumbria 

Theme: Destination Borderlands

Project lead: Cumbria County Council 

Funded by: UK Government

 

Status: In development

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Natural Capital Programme - Scotland

Project: Natural Capital Programme - Scotland

Location: Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders 

Theme: Encouraging green growth

Project lead: Dumfries and Galloway Council and Scottish Borders Council, with partners

Funded by: Scottish Government 

 

Status: In development

Our live projects are helping to build a sustainable future for our Borderlands region 

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