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02.09.2019
The Government’s announcement of a £30 million fund to improve rural connectivity will help rural pubs ‘survive and thrive’, that’s according to comments made by David Cunningham, programme director for pub campaign Long Live the Local, reported by the Morning...
02.09.2019
02 September 2019 Below is an RSN review of last week's rural related politics as well as a look forward to the week ahead: Last week in politics (26 August - 1 September) On Monday 26,...
27.08.2019
Rural communities with poor transport links and a lack of digital connectivity are ‘in crisis’, according to the think tank, Parliament Street The Farmers Guardian covers the new report, Sustaining the Heartland, which warns that rural communities are often...
12.08.2019
Millions of people are at risk of mobile signal blackouts because they live in the four-fifths of UK constituency areas that suffer from patchy 4G mobile coverage, new analysis from Which? reveals. The Which? analysis of Ofcom’s Connected Nations...
12.08.2019
Welcome to the latest newsletter from the Rural Vulnerability Service - brought to you by the Rural Services Network and the Rural England CIC in association with Calor . The vulnerability service aims to disseminate information about three key...
15.07.2019
The ‘ingenuity’ of community broadband schemes has been praised by the Financial Times. The article explains that many regions around Britain are ‘too sparsely populated to justify the cost that BT and Virgin Media would need to spend to...
08.07.2019
The Local Government Association published a report last week highlighting concerns that ‘millions of people living in rural England are at risk of being 'left behind' and missing out on their fair share of future prosperity following the UK’s withdrawal...
08.07.2019
08 July 2019 Below is an RSN review of last week's rural related politics as well as a look forward to the week ahead: Last week in politics (01 July - 07 July) On Tuesday 2,...
01.07.2019
Welcome to the latest newsletter from the Rural Vulnerability Service - brought to you by the Rural Services Network and the Rural England CIC in association with Calor . The vulnerability service aims to disseminate information about three key...
24.06.2019
Writing in The Telegraph, Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson pledged to tackle the digital divide He said that it was a ‘disgrace’ that there is such a ‘deep digital divide’ in the UK and that ‘so many rural areas...
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Public Sector Funding
The RSN demands fairer funding from Central Government who have historically and systematically underfunded rural areas.
Barriers to Access
The RSN campaigns to help rural residents overcome multiple access barriers to key services which includes poor transport and broadband.
Future of Rural Areas
The RSN is challenging often overlooked rural threats such as chronic underfunding, changes in population and diminishing resources.
Health and Wellbeing
The RSN wants to ensure rural communities have the same access to health care as is currently received in urban areas.
Vulnerability
Tackling a collection of circumstances which leaves many rural residents vulnerable is a key issue for the RSN.
Housing
The affordability of rural housing to people from a range of ages and backgrounds is key concern for RSN.
Economy
The RSN works to encourage a thriving rural economy in order to help support our rural communities.
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