The Cost-of-Living Crisis and the Rising Need for Crisis Support

Since 2020 the number of clients in the East Riding of Yorkshire who we have been supporting – both new clients and returning clients has been on the increase. We have then seen another substantial increase since the start of the Cost-of-Living Crisis. During the last three months, our three East Riding of Yorkshire offices […]
Invaluable role of Pub is The Hub in helping pubs to diversify their services and support people in rural communities highlighted in new report

Pub is The Hub has been featured in a new Localis report calling for more pub diversification support. In the report, commissioned by the British Beer & Pub Association and entitled Inn-Valuable: unlocking the socio-economic potential of our nation’s pubs, it called for a 4m fund to support Pub is The Hub to help 1,000 […]
SWS Broadband part of successful merger

Shrewsbury based SWS Broadband is set to see the acceleration of plans to deliver fibre to the premises across rural Shropshire following a successful merger. Macquarie Capital, Israel Infrastructure Fund and Tiger Infrastructure Partners have merged SWS Broadband and Cadence Networks with Voneus Broadband, and simultaneously acquired Broadway Partners. SWS Broadband, Cadence Networks and Broadway Partners all began operating as part of Voneus as of September 25. […]
Broadcast 2040+ Campaign Gains Momentum with New Silver Voices Report

As you may have seen in previous editions of the RSN Spotlight, the Rural Services Network (RSN) is a founding coalition member of the Broadcast 2040+ campaign which now has over 30 members. The campaign was established to ensure the government’s media policy protects vital broadcast TV and radio services for decades to come – […]
The Conference season is upon us, so we move forward…

As the summer slips seamlessly into autumn, so the party political conferences start on a new round of fringe meetings, party leader speeches and a time to network and build up the morale of the troops! The same could be said of the Agricultural Chaplains Association. Not I may hasten to add, are we aligned […]
The Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA)

Wales & West Utilities prides itself on keeping the gas flowing to homes and businesses and serving a population of 7.5million people. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to working with our trusted partners to provide energy safeguarding support to vulnerable consumers in the communities we […]