MANAGING THE BESST PROJECT

BESST BOOK: Special Places, Special People

The book is divided into 63 pdfs to make it easier to download.  It describes how this pioneering international collaboration project set about reviving the economy of three rural areas through a unique combination of activities by local authorities and businesses.  It includes best practice points and 19 inspirational business stories.

1. BESST Book cover
2. Title Page
3. Foreword
4. Contents
5. Introduction
6. Intro to Section 1 Setting Up and Managing BESST
7. BESST can be a fishy business
8. How BESST got its name
9. How BESST got its symbol
10. Making BESST work
11. Exchanges with a difference
12. Seeing ourselves as others see us
13. Intro to Section 2 Public Projects
14. Public investments create private business opportunities
15. Heritage Walks in the Peak District
16. The Trails Triangle cycle route in the Peak District
17. Hylte’s Femsjö Octagon and Yellow Trail
18. Hylte’s Ebbe Skammelson information pack
19. Fyresdal Walking Guidebook
20. Fyresdal Fishing Trails
21. Intro to Section 3 Business Participation
22. Businesses in BESST
23. Introduction to 19 featured business stories
24. Beechenhill (holiday accommodation, art, organic dairy farm)
25. Hoe Grange (cabins on a dairy farm)
26. Chris Fleming’s story (furniture maker)
27. Millfields (bed & breakfast)
28. Meet the Bees (honey producer, beekeeping experience)
29. Notty Hornblower (costume museum)
30. Tiraholms Fisk (fish farm, restaurant, pub)
31. Sågknorren (farm inn, holiday accommodation)
32. Bäckhästen (organic farm, cafe, bed and breakfast)
33. Smått & Gott (cooperative village shop)
34. The Giant on the Hill (tree-top cabins, nature guide)
35. Yvonne Karlsson (strawcraft)
36. Hot tubs from Sweden (export business)
37. Aketun Fisk (fish farm, shop)
38. The Story of Skålid (mountain farm, accommodation, trips)
39. Oleas Hus (arts and crafts, shop)
    
40. Fossum (cabins, restaurant, craft and well-being courses)
41. Fiskebu (cabins, fishing, restaurant)
42. New Dairy in Fyresdal (dairy)
43. Intro to Section 4 BESST’s Nuts and Bolts
44. Website & e-commerce
45. BESST by name, best by nature
46. Impacts of BESST on businesses (University research findings)
47. The BESST way to communicate
48. Euros, Pounds, NOKs and SEKs
49. BESST inspired but not BESST financed
50. Staff comments
51. Intro to Section 5 Try BESST Yourself
52. How BESST to make a felt apple
53. A World’s BESST cake (from Fyresdal)
54. Cinnamon Tart from Hylte
55. Peak District Wakes Cakes
56. BESST wordsearch
57. Intro to Section 6 BESST Answers
58. BESST lessons
59. The BESST legacy
60. Lecterns symbolise international partnership
61. Intro to Section 7 The End!
62. Statistics on the Partner areas & Useful addresses
63. Acknowledgements

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