The RSN works to encourage a thriving rural economy in order to help support our rural communities.
Rural Economy
The RSN works to encourage a thriving rural economy in order to help support our rural communities.
04 Mar 2019
Rural Business Awards winners announced
South West England and West Wales top the leader-board as successful rural business hubs. Winners include cheese-purveyors to royalty; a metal mine turned world-class in-land surf lagoon; one of the...
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25 Feb 2019
Scheme launched to help protect rural shops
Lloyds and Visa are trialling a scheme to pay retailers that offer cashback to customers, according to City A.M. The scheme, has been introduced to protect rural shops, which have...
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11 Feb 2019
The State of Rural Services Report launched in Parliament
Basic mobile calls are not possible across main networks in a third of rural homes. The report also finds that rural residents are losing out as bus services are scrapped....
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23 Jan 2019
Rural Economy Committee – RSN Summary of the Final Evidence Session
The House of Lords Rural Economy Committee met for a final evidence session on the Government’s vision for the rural economy on Tuesday 22 January. The committee heard evidence from:...
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21 Jan 2019
Farmers left behind by poor connectivity
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has published the results of a recent survey that highlighted the extent of poor mobile and broadband coverage in remote areas, according to the websites...
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15 Jan 2019
RSN Economic Profiling Service – November 2018
– Unemployment Claimant Flows as an Indicator of Economic Performance JSA claimant flows analysis (November 18) JSA claimants as percentage of working population analysis (June 18)
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14 Jan 2019
Impacts from the rise of charity shops
There are now 11,000 charity shops across the UK, the growth of which has been attributed to government subsidies of up to an 80 per cent discount on business rates,...
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02 Jan 2019
Sub-national electricity and gas consumption analysis
The attached spreadsheet presents information on electricity and gas consumption at the local authority level for the period spanning 2005 to 2017. The data comes from the Department of Energy...
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27 Dec 2018
Millions ‘will suffer’ in cashless society
The findings of an Access to Cash Review, funded by the ATM network Link, were widely covered in the press by national outlets such as the BBC and local papers...
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27 Dec 2018
High street report findings
The BBC reported on the publication of Sir John Timpson’s High Street Report. The report noted that a combination of internet shopping and the convenience of ‘out of town’ retailing...
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