New social meeting place with an unmanned grocery store and café for the residents in Klingstabygden outside Sundsvall

About the Project

”In the village, there is today a strong association life. We who live here have most things – beautiful nature, a lake to swim in, preschool, school, and fantastic forest areas to walk and pick mushrooms in. What we lack, however, is a daily meeting place that can serve as a hub for the residents. In the countryside, such a place has historically been – and still often is – a smaller grocery store, convenience store, or kiosk. A place where you can meet familiar or unfamiliar neighbors, have a cup of coffee in the sun, sit down and read a good book, or just buy an ice cream with the children during the summer vacation.”

From the application

”Our ambition is that the quality of life for the residents in the village will be raised, and that it contributes to a more vibrant countryside.".

We see clear environmental benefits in that we and those living in the village can shop for basic goods locally, and see this as a place where other businesses and associations in the village can also have a space to market themselves and sell their goods. We see that there are many local actors who would benefit from a place like Bytiken existing.”

LAG decides to prioritize the project as it meets all basic requirements and achieves more than 300 points, which means that the project is assessed to contribute to the goals and efforts included in the implementation of the local development strategy for Leader Mittland Plus.

The applicant has described in their application that the project's benefits accrue to the countryside, follows the basic principles of the leader method regarding partnership, local anchoring, and local innovation, and through its results can contribute to the local strategy's Goal 1 a thriving and co-creating population through sub-goal 1A Actions to strengthen local community and sense of belonging, cohesion, local engagement, and democratic processes, 1B – new and developed meeting places for all generations and 1D – strengthen people's health and well-being, everyone's equal value, multiculturalism, integration, and meaningful employment in social activities, security, Goal 2 An attractive, sustainable, and inclusive living environment – a place to long for through sub-goals 2A – strengthen attractiveness for our places to live, work, and visit and sub-goal 2B alternative solutions for access to services through e.g. ”Smart Countrysides” and digital tools, as well as Goal 3 A strengthened local economy with livelihood opportunities and competitive entrepreneurship through sub-goal 3C entrepreneurship that works for its village in its village, e.g. association-driven entrepreneurship, smart villages.