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The Rural Services Network (RSN) is thrilled to announce the National Rural Conference 2024, taking place from 16th to 19th September. This virtual event, accessible via Zoom, is the premier gathering for senior officers, members, policymakers, and rural service professionals.
Further information and booking details can be found here
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- Here is the link to Leani’s full report
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Chris also provided useful links to:
- Keep it in the Community:
https://plunkett.co.uk/keep-it-in-the-community/
- Making Local Woods Work:
https://www.makinglocalwoodswork.org/
- Good Councillor Guide to Community Business:
https://plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-good-councillors-guide-to-community-business.pdf
- Assets of Community Value explained:
https://mycommunity.org.uk/what-are-assets-of-community-value-acv
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Jon also made mention of a RTPI report and SAM framework, details of which can be found here:
https://www.rtpi.org.uk/media/9233/rtpi-net-zero-transport-january-2021.pdf
And:
https://ruralsharedmobility.eu/
To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:
Kerry Booth - https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/
Leani Haim - https://www.oneillhomer.co.uk/about
Chris Cowcher - https://plunkett.co.uk/our-team/
Jon Lloyd - https://vectos.co.uk/people/jonathan-lloyd/
Work hubs:
https://www.ruralbusinesshub.com/
https://devonworkhubs.co.uk/find-your-devon-work-hub/
Banking hubs:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/trials-of-shared-banking-hubs-to-be-extended
The Cash Access Group is a part of UK Finance (the big high street banks and LINK). They use data to see where provision is needed. But individual communities can request a review:
https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/our-expertise/personal-banking/access-cash
Bank provision example in Norfolk: https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/business/barclays-holt-moving-to-venue-community-centre-9227042
Electric vehicle charging and community car sharing:
https://transportandenergy.com/2022/06/21/cenex-electric-vehicles-evs-charging-platform-derbyshire-county-council-midlands-connect/
Second homes policy:
https://gov.wales/new-package-measures-address-high-numbers-second-homes
Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign, please follow this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural
Revitalising Rural chapter on Rural Economies, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/rural-economies.pdf
Revitalising Rural chapter on Rural Town Centres and High Streets, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/rural-town-centres.pdf
Rural Lens reviews on wide range of topics and government policy, please visit the following link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens
Rural Cost of Living Crisis please visit the following link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/new-report-shows-devastating-triple-blow-pushes-rural-communities-in-a-cost-of-living-emergency
Levelling Up Research:
We've done an analysis of Mission 1 relating to productivity and pay for each local authority in Sparse membership of RSN, you can see your local figures at this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-1
Mission 3 analysis relating to travel time to nearest employment centre for each local authority in Sparse membership of RSN, you can see your local figures at this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-3
For a range of analyses that examine economic indicators at local authority level follow this link to Economy Insights:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/economy-insights
To find out more about RSN members relevant to the seminar click on the following links:
The RSN has over 200 Rural Market Towns in membership, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/rural-market-town-group
Association of Convenience Stores, supporting over 17,000 rural shops, to find out more click on this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-acs-the-association-of-convenience-stores
NICRE, the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-national-innovation-centre-for-rural-enterprise-nicre
Pub is the Hub, working with communities to restore vital local services, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-pub-is-the-hub
National Federation of Sub Postmasters, representing post office operators across the country, to find out more click on this link:
https://nfsp.org.uk/about-us/about-us
ACRE Action with Communities in Rural England work with communities to support the use of Village Halls as community hubs, to find out more click on this link: https://acre.org.uk/
Our seminar programme is kindly sponsored by Airband, an independent internet service provider bringing high speed broadband to homes, business and industry in rural and hard-to-reach areas. To find out more and check availability visit https://www.airband.co.uk/
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