Spending Review 2020 – Gigabit capable broadband funding
In our analysis of the Spending Review 2020 through a Rural Lens (referred to in last week’s Bulletin and available here) we reported on the Spending Review (SR) decision regarding the roll out of gigabit capable broadband
Rural, Remote and At Risk – Rural Health
A study that finds NHS patients in rural areas of England face extra long waits for treatment The Nuffield Trust think-tank says urban areas benefited most from measures put in place to help the NHS cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
Rural Review of National Infrastructure Strategy – Fairer Faster Greener Growth
In recent weeks the Rural Services Network has published a ‘Rural Take’ on the Spending Review and turns its attention now to the National Infrastructure Strategy which sets out plans to transform UK infrastructure in order to level up the country, strengthen the Union and achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Unlocking the contribution of rural enterprise to ‘levelling up’
Professor Jeremy Phillipson, Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise and Paddy Bradley, CEO of Swindon and Wiltshire LEP explain their thoughts on unlocking the contribution of rural enterprise and “levelling up”
Funding gap ‘devastates’ rural bus services
Remote bus services saw journeys fall by 97 million last year due to a £348 million funding gap
Church of England to provide teacher-training in rural schools in new partnership with Teach First
Trainee teachers are to be sent into primary schools in more deprived rural areas as part of a plan to tackle recruitment problems
Tory councillors join call for Government planning rethink
Countryside campaigners have joined with more than 2,000 local councillors to sign a letter to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick MP (Con) opposing the Government’s planning reforms set out in its summer white paper
£1 million made available for charities by new Ofgem carbon emissions reduction fund
Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme launches its new Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund The fund will support charity initiatives that reduce the climate change impact associated with energy use.
Positive News from a small rural village in Somerset
The villagers of Stoke Saint Gregory on the Somerset Levels, are in high spirits, as the Heart of The Village Project, (HOTV ) is reaching another significant milestone with bringing their pub, The Royal Oak, back into use pulling pints and much more
Share your views on the NHS ICS Consultation from a rural perspective
The Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals is asking people across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid-Wales to take a few minutes to complete a survey to help develop a new Public Participation Strategy
