Housing and Employment: A Survey of Rural Residents’ Experiences and Opinions
Rural England CIC has published a summary note based on a survey of rural residents to explore their views about housing development and priorities, and related employment issues The note summarises the findings of a survey which was managed by the Countryside and Community Research Institute (University of Gloucestershire) with support from Rural England CIC. […]
Boris Johnson pledges to tackle digital divide
Writing in The Telegraph, Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson pledged to tackle the digital divide He said that it was a ‘disgrace’ that there is such a ‘deep digital divide’ in the UK and that ‘so many rural areas and towns are simply left behind’. Johnson used Spain as an example, where 85 per cent […]
Mental health care for teenagers is focus of conference
The BBC are reporting about 70 people, including teachers, pupils and NHS staff, are meeting today to discuss mental health provision in west Cumbria after an initiative by young people in the area to increase the amount of help available The group We Will, which trains mental health first-aiders in schools and was set up […]
Urban schools teach children about gardening more than rural counterparts
The Telegraph reports that urban schools make more of an effort to teach pupils about gardening than their rural counterparts. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has said this is because children in cities are less likely to have green space at home, so schools make more of an effort. In 2019 for the first time, […]
24/06/2019 – RSN Rural Economy Group Meeting
Notes of the Rural Economy Group The meeting was held at the LGA, 18 Smith Square, Westminster, and London SW1P 3HZ. – To download the agenda and papers associated for this meeting, click here – To download a copy of these minutes click here Attendance An attendance list is attached as Appendix A to this […]
24/06/2019 – RSN SPARSE Rural Meeting
Notes of last SPARSE Rural Special Interest Group meeting on 24 June 2019 – held at the LGA, Smith Square 1&2, Ground Floor, 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ – To download the agenda and papers associated for this meeting, click here – To download these minutes for this meeting, click here 1. Apologies and […]
“Some said we were mad. We said, ‘remember our purpose’.”
“Some said we were mad. We said, ‘remember our purpose’.” These are the words spoken by our Chief Executive, Martin Collett, after English Rural took on a project in the village of Chew Stoke to rescue ‘The Old Rectory’, a Grade-Two listed Victorian house from dire straits back in 2013. But first, a brief history… The […]
Spotlight on the RSN Observatory
The RSN’s Observatory is the place to discover the statistics behind key issues facing rural communities in England, issues that the RSN is striving to highlight and tackle through its work. The Observatory is additionally a great place to understand the numbers that define the communities within our membership through an expanding group of analyses, […]
