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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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To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:
Ian Cass, Managing Director, Forum of Private Business
https://www.fpb.org/
Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Professor of Planning, Newcastle University
https://theconversation.com/profiles/mark-shucksmith-177805
Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/
RSN Fair Funding Campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/fairer-funding-campaign
RSN Levelling Up Analysis:
Levelling Up Analysis - Rural Services Network (rsnonline.org.uk)
Pragmatix Advisory research, Rural as a region: the hidden challenge for Levelling Up:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-as-a-region-the-hidden-challenge-for-levelling-up.pdf
Areas benefitting from levelling up funding:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/which-areas-have-benefited-from-the-levelling-up-fund/
Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural
Rural Lens reviews on government policies and strategies, including Levelling Up:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens
Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg
National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise - Resilient rural business:
https://nicre.co.uk/news/2022/january/resilient-rural-businesses-innovate-and-diversify-during-covid/
How to sign up free of charge to the Micro Business Alliance:
https://themicrobizalliance.org.uk/
Plunkett Community Pubs – A Better Form of Business:
https://plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021-1.pdf
South Cambridgeshire Market Toolkit:
https://www.scambs.gov.uk/business/south-cambridgeshire-markets/market-toolkit/
Community Right to Buy:
https://plunkett.co.uk/plunkett-foundation-calls-for-a-uk-wide-community-right-to-buy/
Rural Poverty Today - Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain:
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rural-poverty-today
Rural Lives Research Project:
https://www.rurallives.co.uk/
Kovia Consulting Rural Cost of Living research:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-cost-of-living.pdf
House of Lords Rural Economy Committee Report: Time for a Strategy for the Rural Economy:
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/lln-2019-0110/
Homelessness In the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/chronic-increase-of-hidden-homelessness-in-the-countryside-fuelled-by-cost-of-living-crisis-ground-breaking-report-shows
Jab, jab, jab right hook book on social media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7UuC3Z9D5M
The Good Councillors Guide to Community Business:
https://plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/the-good-councillors-guide-to-community-business.pdf
The 106 Bus Partnership, Cumbria – connecting rural communities:
http://106bus.co.uk/
Pub is the Hub:
https://www.pubisthehub.org.uk/
National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise – Research Project on Rural Co-Working:
https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2023/march/exploring-co-working-potential-for-rural-pubs/
Supporting the visitor economy in South Cambridgeshire:
https://visitsouthcambs.co.uk/
Understanding Society Study:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/
Chris Whitty Report on Health in Coastal Communities:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005217/cmo-annual_report-2021-health-in-coastal-communities-summary-and-recommendations-accessible.pdf
National Centre for Rural Health and Care – Parliamentary Inquiry Report on Rural Health:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/RuralHealthandCareAPPGInquiryRep.pdf
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