Spring 2024 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight
Welcome to the Spring 2024 Rural Services Partnership Spotlight In this edition we welcome two new members and share best practice from a wide cross section of our members including articles on rural pubs, decarbonising rural heating, countryside jobs, rural health, agri-tech, rural crime, advice services, rural housing, space travel and saving lives! New Members […]
How a new government should help rural households decarbonise their heating
Both political parties have set out how they intend to progress decarbonizing the UK’s 27 million homes, including the 2 million rural homes not connected to mains gas. The Conservatives rowed back from their 2026 boiler ban for off gas grid homes, reflecting the difficulty and high cost this could have imposed on some households […]
Despite 12 years of elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) we are still no closer to tackling Rural crime
Rural crime is one of those issues that cuts right to the heart of rural communities yet fails to make traction in the corridors of power, and still after 12 years of elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) we seem no closer to tackling the problem. The Countryside Alliance has long been a vocal campaigner […]
FCN Launches New Partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support
The Farming Community Network (FCN) has launched a new partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support – which will help to improve the support available to those living with cancer in rural areas. As part of this partnership FCN will be working closely with Macmillan Cancer Support, including raising awareness in rural communities of the signs and […]
RABI Pledges £10m for Mental Health Support
RABI, the UK’s leading farming mental health charity, announced at the House of Lords on Wednesday 17 April that it would be increasing its spending on mental health services by up to £10 million over the next five years. Joined by around 100 politicians, opinion formers and farming sector leaders, RABI’s pledge was made as […]
The Forgotten Crisis: Addressing the Urgent Need for Affordable Rural Housing
In a recent essay for the Localis report “Building consent: housing by popular demand,” Kerry Booth, Chief Executive of the Rural Services Network (RSN), sheds light on a pressing issue often overlooked by policymakers: the dire lack of affordable housing in rural communities across England. As the Prime Minister announces plans to build a million homes over the current Parliament, […]
Space Medicine – a UK perspective
By Dr Peter Hodkinson, European Space Agency Medical Board Member and Head of Aerospace Medicine, King’s College London Wednesday 22 May6pm – 8pm, University of Central Lancashire, PrestonAlso available via Livestream Hosted by The University of Central Lancashire, National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Faculty […]
ONH is expanding its services
ONH Planning for Good is the new brand name of RCOH Ltd, a planning and development consultancy founded in 2011 in rural west Oxfordshire to enable local communities to punch their weight in the planning system. As the days of neighbourhood planning may be numbered, ONH is expanding its other services for town and parish […]
From A4 to For All – 30 years of the Countryside Jobs Service
By Kerryn Humphreys, CJS In July 1994 small envelopes started landing on the doormats of countryside rangers, inside were a couple of sheets of closely typed A4 containing details of vacancies in the countryside management sector. Since those small beginnings the Countryside Jobs Service has grown along with the green jobs sector. Conservation was mainly […]
Pub is The Hub works in partnerships to support pubs and rural areas
Pub is The Hub has been working in collaboration and partnership with a range of organisations to support rural pubs, publicans and their communities with different activities. A new gardening guide, in partnership with the charity Horticap, which has popular gardener Alan Titchmarsh as patron, has been produced to help pubs in developing their outside […]
