Princes Countryside Fund Welcomes New Executive Director, Celebrates National Countryside Week and more!
PCF welcomes new Executive Director Keith Halstead joined The Prince’s Countryside Fund at the start of June, taking over from Claire Saunders, who is stepping down after five years following a move to Northern Ireland. Keith has over twenty-five years’ experience gained in a number of senior roles across the two National Trusts in England […]
Catch The Ferry for a trip to the shop
Local residents of Stokesby near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk can skip the six-mile round trip to the nearby town for essential groceries since their local, The Ferry Inn, opened a shop in the pub. Alison Brewster and her family who run the waterside pub came up with the idea from Pub is The Hub after […]
Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project CIC
The Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project supports Refugee Doctors to be able to work in NHS, by relocating them to this area and providing them with the language and clinical training that they need in order to register with the General Medical Council (GMC), and then work in Lincolnshire, an area which currently has a significant […]
Landmark scholarship is awarded for PhD research project at Hartpury
Hartpury University PhD student Ellen Gibson has been awarded the institution’s first-ever John Oldacre Research Scholarship to support her groundbreaking research into the dairy industry. The John Oldacre Foundation provides financial support for the advancement and promotion, for the public benefit, of promising research and education in agricultural sciences, including the publication of significant findings. […]
The Business which were ignored are now paying the price
Background For all the time that I have been involved with the Forum of Private Business there have been three business sectors that have been a concern, for our members who work in them. As a result we have spent a lot of time and effort campaigning o their behalf and doing our best to […]
9 in 10 anticipate increased need for farming charities over the next five years
More than 90 per cent of respondents anticipate a spike in demand for farming support organisations over the next five years, a new survey by the Farming Community Network (FCN) has revealed. The survey of over 160 farmers, agricultural businesses and members of the public across the UK found a significant belief that over the next five […]
My Home Is Kinder To Me, My Wallet And The Planet
“My Home Is Kinder To Me, My Wallet And The Planet”: Perspectives On A Retrofit ProgrammeChristine Saunders, An English Rural Resident from the village of Clavering, Essex “It was the early 90s and we were living in a council house in the village of Clavering near Saffron Walden. There were four of us: my husband, […]
Dispensing Doctors’ Association – The digital divide exposed by COVID-19
COVID-19 has exposed many shortcomings in the health and social care system, and for dispensing patients in England, large among these is the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service. For several decades, GPs and pharmacies have been making a slow transition towards digital prescriptions, that is a digital infrastructure to support – and ultimately replace […]
Cirencester Town Centre – Resilient and Robust
Cirencester Town Council pre-empted the changing face of the high street in 2007/08, when the community plan ‘Our Future Cirencester’ was published; whilst we didn’t pre-empt the radical change in shopping habits, we did want to regenerate the town centre so that it was fit for purpose in the future. In 2017, the Town Council […]
Blackdown Support Group wins £1,000 Movement for Good award
Local charity Blackdown Support Group has won a £1,000 Movement for Good award thanks to nominations from the public Blackdown Support Group is one of 500 winners in specialist insurer Ecclesiastical’s Movement for Good awards, which is giving £1million to charities this summer. Members of the public were invited to nominate causes close to their […]
