Funding for rural community groups
Community groups providing activities for rural young people in Shropshire are being encouraged to apply for funding. The second funding round of Shropshire Council’s Rural Youth Activity Fund opens on Monday (20 August). A total of £20,000 is available for youth groups and clubs in the eligible rural Local Joint Committee (LJC) areas, so that they […]
Charity uses drone to locate rural homeless
An outreach team is pioneering the use of live-streamed video from a drone to help support workers to find people sleeping rough in remote rural and coastal locations. Live footage from the drone is assessed by members of P3’s Lincolnshire Street Outreach Team so that they can direct colleagues to the person via the quickest and […]
Call for Projects to Support Potential Entrepreneurs – Coast to Coast and West Cornwall
Closing Date – 10 September 2018 Up to £923,250 is now available through Community Led Local Development to run projects in the Coast to Coast and West Cornwall Local Action Group areas that will support potential entrepreneurs. The funding is available through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF) for […]
Expect unexpected, rural motorists warned
Police are warning rural motorists to slow down and expect the unexpected on country roads this summer. It comes after a tractor had to swerve to avoid a car, causing the implement it was carrying to fall into the road, blocking it in both directions in North Yorkshire. Police arrived within minutes, and managed traffic in the area […]
