Promoting Rural Best practice
The RSP provides a unique opportunity for its members to promote and highlight topical examples of rural best practice, case studies and pilot projects.
The RSP also raises awareness of the excellent work currently being delivered by rural practitioners in England.
23 Jul 2021
Lincolnshire Refugee Doctors Project
Following our initial recruitment in 2019 we have now recruited 30 refugee and asylum seeking Doctors to our project. Three of our Doctors have graduated from the programme, gained GMC...
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19 Jul 2021
Support Choices flies the nest becoming a sustainable local advice service
Support Choices celebrates becoming an independent advice charity, empowering people in Perth and Kinross with information Outside the Box started the project in 2019 to help older and disabled people...
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28 Jun 2021
How affordable rural homes change lives and communities (Cotswold focus)
Are you a Parish Councillor or a Landowner in the Cotswolds? English Rural is holding the second of a series of planned, regional webinars, focussing on how affordable rural housing...
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10 Jun 2021
Rural Media’s powerful short drama prompts BBC Countryfile to cover rural domestic abuse
The Willows – Dawn’s Story A film about one woman’s escape from rural domestic abuse Domestic abuse in rural areas is different. Abuse lasts, on average, 25 times longer in...
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07 Jun 2021
Devon publicans open farmshop and café to help support local residents
Devon publicans Selena and Steve Porter have opened a new farm shop and café at the Shipwright Arms in Shaldon near Teignmouth to help residents stay local for shopping as...
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24 May 2021
Oxfordshire pub offers post-lockdown lifeline to locals with library and IT hub
Oxfordshire publican Dan Redfern is opening a library and IT hub at his pub The Cherry Tree Inn in Stoke Row to help support local residents as the country moves...
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17 May 2021
Pub is The Hub: New research highlights the social value publicans and pubs create by providing local services
The social value that pubs and publicans created by providing local services during the first Covid-19 lockdown has been unveiled in a new report from Pub is The Hub, the...
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04 May 2021
Making the case for supporting more passionate people make positive differences locally
Community Catalysts has been working since 2007 to help local people use their energies and talents to deliver social care and health support and services for other local people. They...
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28 Apr 2021
New Report into the Impacts of a Reduction in Bus Services Published by The Women’s Institute
On 20 April, the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) launched its new report: A New Route for Local Bus Services This forms part of the WI’s Get on Board...
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28 Apr 2021
Thames Valley Community-Led Housing Festival
Thames Valley Community-Led Housing Festival10-14 May 2021 The festival will be an opportunity for different groups to meet, learn from one another and enhance community-led housing as a way to...
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