Finding Volunteers in Rural Areas

By outside the box, 29 June 2018 Lots of community groups and voluntary organisations find it can be a challenge to get people involved – both for formal volunteering roles and helping out in less formal ways. It can be a particular problem in rural areas and for groups which are looking more to older people. […]

Fresh warning over rural broadband

Rural communities could be left behind without public subsidies for the rollout of fibre broadband,  the government will be told. Government ministers needs to go “further and faster” by subsidising the rollout of fibre broadband in rural areas, according to a forthcoming report by the National Infrastructure Commission. The Daily Telegreaph says the report will be published […]