The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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Local Authority Members - Sparse

This is for the most sparsely populated local authorities and is the most comprehensive of our membership levels. The RSN campaigns on behalf of these authorities for fairer funding for public services in rural areas.  This membership package provides a wide range of targeted analysis of rural data and statistics and the work of the RSN dedicated fair funding campaign, along with access to our free dedicated seminar programme and free access to National Rural Conference.

Local Authorties who belong to both Sparse and the Rural Assembly membership are listed below: