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22 Sep 2025

Kerry Booth: Why Fair Funding Matters for Rural Councils

Kerry Booth, Chief Executive of the Rural Services Network, was recently invited to contribute a blog reflecting on the funding challenges faced by rural councils. We are pleased to share...

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22 Sep 2025

Four Days, Hundreds Of Voices, Championing Rural Futures

This year’s National Rural Conference has drawn to a close after four days of debate, discussion and learning focused on the future of rural communities. Over the course of the...

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01 Jul 2025

Delivering for All: A Roadmap for Rural Prosperity

A new policy framework from the Rural Services Network Every person, in every place, deserves the chance to thrive — including those living in rural, coastal and small-town communities. The...

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05 Jul 2024

Delivering for Rural

Please note: This document has now been superseded by our latest publication,Delivering for All: A Roadmap for Rural Prosperity, launched in July 2025. While Winning the Rural Vote reflected our...

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22 Nov 2023

Autumn Statement: RSN Chief Executive reviews what it means for rural

Today the Chancellor promised to ‘level up every corner of the UK’.  RSN Chief Executive Kerry Booth has been looking at what that means for rural communities: We welcome the...

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03 Jul 2023

RSN joins major Coalition to combat escalating rural homelessness crisis

In the face of a rapidly escalating rural homelessness crisis, a powerful new coalition is launching today. The ‘Rural Homelessness Counts Coalition’ is a collective of more than 20 leading...

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24 Feb 2021

Revitalising Rural

Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision is a campaign led by the Rural Services Network to challenge Government on a number of policy areas that affect rural communities. It was launched...

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21 Oct 2019

Time for a rural strategy

The RSN believes that the Government should take the lead and work with interested organisations to produce a comprehensive long term and funded Rural Strategy.   We have developed a Template...

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