Local communities 'link' servce (c 9,000 members)Facilitated by your membership a free rural service to those local groups you work with at grass root to level to motivate discussion, debate and shared experience on rural service issues.
Rural Service Information for parishes, schools, local organisations and businesses
We want our services to reach down to the grassroots. If a "Principal" organisation is in membership, we will provide a free community based service including a weekly publication "Rural Focus", to all its various sub groups and consultation bodies. In areas where there is no supportive RSP membership, we have to charge £60 per organisation for the equivalent service. The community service is expanding as we grow as an organisation. We are providing a free grant aid signposting service for these community members.
Community network
The Network seeks to harvest information from all viewpoints and the community group with local input is a crucial part of that equation.
Only when Rural Services are seen as an overall picture will the incremental erosion by individual service consideration be halted.
Local organisation temperature taking
Through the Community Group we operate weekly links with 4,500 parishes across England. We plan a service which provides main members with periodic information on the priorities, concerns, and views of the Local Council tier. The Community Group also comprises several thousand rurally based local Schools, Local Societies and Local Businesses. There is value in surveying for views and statistical information and using the network as strongly as we are able. We plan to undertake these surveys periodically and circulate results widely and will seek to increase these exercises as the community group establishes.