1. 'Plugging the Leaks' helps local people work out how to keep to a minimum the leakage of money from their area.

At a simple level it might just be that people can make better informed decisions on how they spend their money; at another level, it might identify the need for a voluntary organisation to extend its range of activity, but, at a more complex level, it might mean a business extending its product range and as a result, employing and training more staff. It might mean someone taking that giant leap into starting a business, or it could mean bigger organisations committing themselves to sourcing more goods and services locally.

Examples of leak-plugging ideas include:-

• Community energy projects
• Local produce marketing and distribution initiatives
• Festivals celebrating local pride in heritage, culture, farming and sport
• Making better use of village halls to provide local services.
  

2. Area Development Plans
Each Area Community Enterprise Group will create its own Entrepreneurship Action Plan to identify the widest range of local enterprise opportunities.
Plans are backed by research, advice and training.

3. Economic Gardening - Irrigating the Desert
Through a process called 'Economic Gardening' all local assets - social, economic, cultural, environmental - will be examined to identify how opportunities can be created to add new economic dimensions.
Enterprise ideas are encouraged to grow from small seeds to strong flourishing plants, which survive and thrive.

Identifying hidden talents, hobbies, interests and skills, which could transfer, with advice and training, to newly identified economic opportunities, will be very important.

4. Pembrokeshire Enterprise Network
This group, consisting of all local and regional organisations that are involved or interested in supporting enterprise activity in Pembrokeshire, has been established to help to make sure that effective support will be given to develop any good enterprise ideas.

Partnership and Research
Research will be undertaken into the wide range of activities in Pembrokeshire and their current economic value and how with support, development and assistance they can contribute more fully to sustainable economic development.

To help develop this initiative PLANED has established new partnerships with the New Economics Foundation, London and the Centre for Enterprise and Regional Development at the University of Wales, Bangor. PLANED will continue to work with its long-term academic partners such as Pembrokeshire College and the Institute of Business Studies, University of Aberystwyth.

How will it work?
The initiative is being delivered through 15 Area Community Enterprise Groups covering the whole of Pembrokeshire. The groups are formed from representatives of Community Forums and supported by a range of specialist agencies. They are all represented on PLANED's Entrepreneurship Sub-Board. Together they identify what needs to be done to unlock the potential for enterprise in their area.

PLANED acts as facilitator, helping local people to come together and work through a process that will result in the creation of an Entrepreneurship Action Plan. PLANED then continues to work with local people and key partners to support the development of the projects included in the plan - providing staff time, expertise, resources and funding - to turn ideas into action. PLANED is a community-led, non-profit making company and a registered charity.