ACRE
21 May 2020
England’s rural Village and Community Halls are survivors!
The history of village halls goes back over 100 years. Deborah Clarke, Action with Communities in Rural England’s (ACRE) Rural Evidence and Village Halls Manager considers what the future holds...
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10 Feb 2020
Crucial Census – National Village and Community Hall Survey
The ACRE Network needs your help for a crucial census. Carried out once every ten years the survey will provide up to date information about halls and the social and...
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30 Jul 2019
Rural Group reach out to new PM
The Rural Services Network, ACRE, Plunkett Foundation and Rural Coalition have written to the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP to highlight issues of concern in rural areas and call...
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08 Jan 2019
Celebrate England’s 10,000 Village Halls
National Charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and their 38 member organisations are running a week long campaign to celebrate England’s 10,000 Village Halls. Village Halls are an...
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25 May 2017
General Election 2017: ACRE’s ‘rural asks’
ACTION with Communities in Rural England has warned that future government policy must be fully ‘rural proofed’. The charity published its ‘Election Asks‘ after the main political parties published their manifestos...
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