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28.08.2019
Time for a rural strategy
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The RSN believes that the Government should take the lead and work with interested organisations to produce a comprehensive long term and funded Rural Strategy.
We have developed a Template Rural Strategy which sets out the rational for calling for such a strategy. We believe that it should include the following component parts and the Template Rural Strategy sets out evidence to support their inclusion:
- A Thriving Rural Economy
- A Digitally connected countryside
- A Place everyone can get around
- An Affordable Place to live
- A fair deal on health and social care
- A Place to learn and grow
- A settlement (including fair funding for rural services) to support local action
- A rural proofed policy framework
→ Download the RSN template 'Time for a Rural Strategy' Report here
We call on Government to produce a Rural Strategy to set out their priorities for Englands Rural Communities and the Rural Economy for the future and we ask you to support this call.
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→ The campaign has featured heavily in press across the country. Details can be found here
→ A summary of the 'Rural England – A different place demands a different strategy' event held in Taunton can be found here
The following individuals and organisations also support this call:
(Last update 28.08.19)
Organisations:
| A1 Perfect Plumbing Ltd | Hastoe Group |
| Access4Riders | Hastoe Housing Association |
| ACRE | Haughton Parish Council |
| Action Hampshire | Hayton Parish Council |
| Action on Hearing Loss | HB Villages Ltd |
| Airton Parish Meeting | Hebden Parish Council |
| Aislaby Parish Council | Hebden Royd Town Council |
| Alderholt Parish Council | Henley in arden parish council |
| Aldwark Area Parish Council | Herefordshire Council |
| Alnmouth Parish Council | Hitcham Parish Council |
| Alveley and Romsley Parish Council | Holsworthy Town Council |
| Alzheimer's Society | Horton cum Studley Parish Council |
| Anglia Rural Consultants | Husthwaite Newsletter |
| Aristocats | Ingleton in Bloom |
| Ashbury Parish Council | Ingleton Parish Council |
| Ash-cum-Ridley Parish Council | Institute of Economic Development |
| Ashill Parish Council | J C & Associates Limited |
| Ashley Farm | Joe’s Cafe South Beach |
| Ashley Parish Meeting | Karbon Homes |
| Ashton Parish Council | Keele University |
| Barchester Court ltd | Kenninghall Parish Council |
| Barnwell Parish Council | Kirkgate Arts |
| Barrowden Parish Council | Lamberhurst Parish Council |
| Bassetlaw District Council | Lamplugh Village Hall |
| Bawdsey Parish Council | Langtoft Parish Council |
| Baxby Microlights ltd | Launceston Town Council |
| Bedale Community Minibus | Leisure Consultants |
| Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity | Lezant Parish Council |
| Bell View (Belford) | Lidgate Parish Council |
| Berkley, Somerset, Parish Council | Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association |
| Betchworth Parish Council | Lindsey and Coastal Action Zone LEADER Programme, Lincolnshirel County Council |
| BH Trees & Woodland Consultancy Ltd | LiNKWELL good neighbour scheme |
| BHS | Litton Cheney Parish Council |
| Bickerstaffe Parish Council | Maldon District Council |
| Bicknoller parish council | Malvern Hills District Council |
| Bidborough Parish Council | Maresfield Parish Council |
| Bishop Burton College | Mawnan Parish Council |
| Blackdown Support Group | Melchet Park & Plaitford Parish C |
| Bolton Parish Council | Membury Parish Council |
| Boston Borough Council | Mendham Parish Council |
| Boxgrove Parish Council | Mendip district council |
| Bradninch Town Council | Meriden Parish Council |
| Branxton Parish Council | Midlands Rural Housing |
| Breage Parish Council | Modbury Parish Council |
| Bridestowe Parish Council | Moorsbus Community Interest Company |
| Bridport Environment Group | Myerscough College |
| Bridport Local Area Partnership | Nailsea Town council |
| Bright Estates | National Association of Local Councils |
| Brinkburn & Hesleyhurst Parish Council | National Centre for Rural Health and Care |
| Briston Parish Council | National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs (NFYFC) |
| Brixton Parish Council | National Housing Federation |
| Broadmayne Parish Council | National Rural Touring Forum |
| Burythorpe Parish Council | NCDC |
| BV & SM Johnson | NDVS (North Devon Voluntary Services) |
| Caldy Nature Park | Netherseal Parish Council |
| Cam Parish Council | Newtown Linford Parish Council |
| Campaign to Protect Rural England | North Somercotes Parish Council |
| CDA Herts | Northamptonshire ACRE |
| Chair Waveney Valley Local Action group (RDPE-LEADER) | Nowton parish council |
| Chard Town Council | Okehampton Hamlets Parish Council |
| Cheshire Community Action | Okehampton Town Council |
| Cheshire East Council | Old Hunstanton Parish Council |
| Cheshire West and Chester Council | Orton Parish Meeting |
| Chetwynd Aston and Woodcote Parish Council | Ousden Parish Council |
| Chideock Parish Council | Owstan Ltd |
| Church of England | Parkinsons UK |
| Church of England (Parish of the Upper Wreake, Leicester Diocese) | Partners in Health ( Midland) Ltd. |
| Clackclose100 | Pentabus Theatre |
| Cockermouth Town Council | Peter Tavy Parish Council |
| Communities Can Limited | Plunkett Foundation |
| Community Action Northumberland | Powlett & associates Ltd |
| Community Action Suffolk | Pulborough Parish Council |
| Community Council for Somerset (CCS) | Pym's Consultancy Ltd |
| Community Energy Plus | Pyrometallurgical Consultancy |
| Community First in Herefordshire and Worcestershire | Quainton Parish Council |
| Community Lincs | Ribble Valley Borough Council |
| Compton Dando Parish Council | Risby Parish Council |
| Compton Dando Parish Hall | RJ Working CIC |
| Constantine Enterprise Company | RKK Ltd |
| Corfe Castle Parish Council | Rother Valley Together |
| Cornwall Council | Rowlands Castle Parish Council |
| Cornwall Rural Community Charity | Royal Town Planning Institute |
| Cornwall Rural Housing Association | Rural Action Derbyshire |
| Corony Edwards Consulting | Rural Services Network |
| Country Land and Business Association (CLA) | Rural West Sussex Partnership |
| Countryside Alliance | Sacriston Parish Council |
| Cowlinge Parish Council | Sampford Arundel Parish Council |
| CPRE Northumberland | Sherborne Deanery Rural Chaplaincy |
| Crick Parish Council | Shropshire Council |
| Crowan Parish Council | Smallburgh Parish Council |
| CSW Group | Smith and Tucker Farms Ltd |
| Cumbria County Council | Snettisham Parish Council |
| Cusgarne Organic Farm | South Hams District Council |
| DALC | South Huish Parish Council |
| Dalham Parish Council | Spilsby Good Neighbour Scheme |
| Daventry District Council | St Catherine Parish Meeting |
| Devon County Council | St Day Parish Council |
| Dorset Assoc of Parish and Town Councils | St Edmundsbury Borough Council |
| Dorset Community Transport | St Germans Charitable Trust |
| Dorset CPRE | St Gluvias Parish Council |
| Dowsby Parish Council | St Marks Church Scarisbrick |
| Dyke | Stansfield Parish Council |
| Eagle PC | Stanway Parish Council |
| East Devon District Council | Staverton Parish Council |
| East Markham Parish Council | Stelling Minnis Parish Council |
| East Riding of Yorkshire Council | Sticklepath Parish Council |
| East Suffolk Council | Sturton le steeple PC |
| Eastham Parish Council | Sunniside Community Association |
| Easton and Otley College | Sustainable Brampton |
| Eden District Council | Sutton Bridge & Wingland Parish Council |
| Eden Housing Association | Tattingstone Parish Council |
| Egob | Tees Valley Rural Action |
| Elstead PC | Teignbridge District Council |
| Encounter Eden | The Clacklose Hundred CBS |
| English Rural Housing Association | The DR Company |
| Epwell Parish Council | The Flower Export Co Ltd |
| Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby PC | The Forum of Private Business |
| Essex Police | The Grassington Hub |
| Etchingham Parish Council | The Methodist and United Reformed Churches |
| Everybody "Get On Board" | The National Centre for Rural Health & Care |
| Exmoor National Park Authority | The Rural Services Partnership |
| Exstream Networks Ltd | The Trails Trust |
| Farlington Parish Meeting | Tiffield Parish Council |
| Farming & Rural Issues Group South East | Tredington Parish Council |
| Farthinghoe Parish Council | Trent and Dove Housing |
| Fcn | United Benefice of Dolphinholme, Quernmore & Over Wyresdale |
| Feltwell Parish Council | Upper Beeding Parish Council |
| Fenstanton Parish Council | W.A.T.A.G. |
| FirstGroup UK Bus Division | Waddingham parish council |
| FoCS &Constantine Enterprise Co | Warwickshire Older People’s Forum |
| Forest Heath District Council | West Devon Borough Council |
| Forest of Dean Green Party | West Lakes Adventure |
| Friends of Constantine Surgery | West Lindsey District Council |
| Friends of the Lake District | West Somerset Council |
| Fryers Garage | What's On In Landbeach (village newsletter) |
| GoGilsland | Wheels to Work Ryedale |
| Granborough Parish Council | Whorlton & Swainby Parish Council |
| GRCC | Willey Parish Council |
| Great & Little Carlton Parish Council | Wiltshire College - Lackham |
| Great Addington Parish Council | Wiltshire College & University Centre |
| Great Gransden Parish Council | Winford Parish Council |
| Great Limber Parish Council | Winteringham Parish Council |
| Gweek Parish Council | Wittersham Parish Council |
| Gwennap Parish Council | Woodchester Parish Council |
| Hampshire County Council | World Organisation of Family Doctors Rural Group (RuralWonca) |
| Hamsey Parish Council | Yarnton Parish Council |
| Haresfield parish counci | Yelvertoft Parish Council |
| Harrington Parish Council | Young Somerset |
| Harston Parish Council | |
Individuals:
| A. Crouchman | Jon Moss |
| Abby Navarre | Jon Turner |
| Adam Paynter - Leader of Cornwall Council | Jonathan Rose |
| Adrian Louis | Josephine Parish |
| Alan Parker | Josie Palmer |
| Alastair Sheehan | Joyce Hutchinson |
| Alexandra Channer | Jude Considine |
| Alison Abraham | Judith Pressley |
| Alison Brown | Judy Bell |
| Alison Cruse | Julia Ford |
| Alison Robinson | Julia Plinston |
| Alistair Banks | Julia Tingle |
| Allan Redfern | Julian Tatam |
| Allan Scott | Julian True |
| Amanda Brown | Julie Hardy |
| Amber Nuttall | Juliet Williams |
| Andrew Fitter | Karl Love |
| Andrew Knight | Kate Belinis |
| Andrew Lanham | Katharine Harrod |
| Andrew McDonald | Kathleen Pym |
| Andrew Shaw | Kathy Cuthbert |
| Andrew Simkins | Keeley Rudd |
| Andrew Talliss | Keith Riste |
| Andy Blackwell | Keith Townson |
| Angela Barnes | Ken Christy |
| Angela Lawrence | Ken Clifford |
| Anica Alvarez Nishio | Ken Johnson |
| Ann Day | Kenneth Bray |
| Ann Hindley | Kevin Dukes |
| Anne Kemp | Kevin Forbes Mitchell |
| Anne Lawson | Kevin Furnish |
| Anne Shilton | Kevin Hynes |
| Anne-Marie Spalding | Kevin Kendall |
| Anthony Trollope-Bellew - Leader of West Somerset Council | Kevin Wood |
| Anthony W Penn | Kieran Carr |
| Antoinette Wisbey | Kim Atkinson |
| Avis Thomas | Kirsty McDowell |
| B Fludgate | Lauretta Williams |
| Barbara Fisher | Lesley Everett |
| Barbara Le Gallez | Lesley Long |
| Barbara Stanway | Lesley Woledge |
| Barry Olorenshaw | Leslie Hann |
| Ben Hogben | Linda Harman |
| Beryl Janet James | Lisa Clements |
| Beth Martin | Lisa Dixon |
| Bev Iles | Liz Berry |
| Beverley Parker | Liz Johnson-Idan |
| Bishop John Stroyan | Lois Rowlands |
| Bishop of Ely | Louisa Lockwood |
| Bob Watters | Louise Haywood |
| Bob Welch | Louise Tucker |
| Brenda Weston | Lucy Aldridge |
| Brian Foley | M F Holmes |
| Brian Wilson | M. Brombley |
| Bruce Heywood | Madeleine king |
| Carol Mew | Malcolm Baldwin |
| Carol Perry | Malcolm Bloor |
| Caroline Ashall | Malcolm Rigler |
| Carolyn Peck | Margaret Gibson |
| Catherine Hitchens | Margaret Guest |
| Catrin John | Marguerite Shapland |
| Charles Fryer | Mark Hall |
| Charles Wild | Mark Haworth-Booth |
| Charlotte Squire | Mark Herriott |
| Cherry Ekins | Mark McEvilly |
| Chris Abraham | Mark Nash-Williams (Revd) |
| Chris Bell | Mark Turner |
| Chris Bridgman | Marshal Scott - Chief Executive of Bibble Valley Borough Council |
| Chris Bright | Martin Craddock |
| Chris Cowcher | Martin Rowell |
| Chris Everidge | Martin Weston |
| Chris Higgins | Martin windley |
| Chris Lambert | Maureen Dobson |
| Christine Patty | Maurice E Hall |
| Christine Rust | Melanie Thew |
| Christopher Hurst | Melissa Whittaker |
| Christopher Matijasevic | Merietta Raymond |
| Cindy Rigney | Mervyn Benford |
| Claire Brooks | Michael David John Price |
| Claire Way | Michael Lyons |
| Clare Gamble | Michael Toogood |
| Clare Mahaddie | Mikchael Bell |
| Claudine Scatchard | Mike Allen |
| Clive Neal-Sturgess | Mike Cooper |
| Cllr B Weston | Mike Gant |
| Cllr Bill Lane | Mike Hawes |
| Cllr Caroline Page | Mike Stanton |
| Cllr Jan Goffey | Mike Willmott |
| Cllr John Hassall | Mr Alan Hopkins |
| Cllr John McNeill | Mr Ray Shapland |
| Cllr Julie Yelland | Mrs B. Uren |
| Cllr M Devine | Mrs Barbara tocher |
| Cllr Maggie Ray | Mrs Emma Dunn |
| Cllr Melissa Whittaker-Mather | Mrs Gesella J Tidy |
| Cllr Mike Lovell | Mrs Jane Virginia Stollery |
| Cllr Nathan Garbutt Moore | Mrs Jean S Sangster |
| Cllr Norma Raynes | Mrs Santa Checkley |
| Cllr Strange | Mrs Victoria Firth |
| Cllr Tamsyn d'Arienzo | Myles Thomas |
| Cllr. Nigel Shaw | Nathan Harmer-Taylor |
| Cllr. Richard Good | Neil Watson |
| Colin Adsley | Nick Boothroyd |
| Colin Parnell | Nick Edmonds |
| Colin Smith | Nick Morton |
| Colin Stroud | Nicky Bishop |
| Colin Tindill | Nicola Kingman |
| Corony Edwards | Nicola Salter |
| Councillor Gary Cowan | Nik Harwood |
| Councillor Kate Parkinson | Owen Bierley |
| Daniel Tebbutt | Patricia Holtom |
| Daniel Walton | Patrick Kimber |
| Danny Moody | Patrick Spink |
| Dave Lewis | Paul Booton |
| David Ansbro | Paul Cranstone |
| David Cohen | Paul French |
| David Darlow | Paul Graham |
| David Evans | Paul Harrison |
| David Gluck | Paul Heinrich |
| David Harknett | Paul Rogers |
| David Jeffels | Paul Simpson |
| David Rawlinson | Paulette Barton |
| David Roe | Pauline McCarthy |
| David Simpson | Peter Carrell |
| David Tooke | Peter Clarke |
| David Webb | Peter Cowx |
| Dawn Beeby | Peter Daniels |
| Debbie Reyland | Peter Fane |
| Deborah Mitchell | Peter Griffiths |
| Deborah Munro | Peter Hodge |
| Deborah Sellis | Peter Holmes |
| Denis Pye | Peter Jones |
| Derek Nicholls | Peter Moore |
| Diana Garrod | Peter Sleet |
| Diane Elphinstone | Phil Appleyard |
| Donald MacIntyre | Phil Galpin |
| Doreen M Shineton | Philip Cornish |
| Dr Alan Rogers | Philip Cupit |
| Dr Clive Waddington | Philip Ham |
| Dr Gordon Morris | Philip Paul |
| Dr John | Philippa Paget |
| Dr Kreseda Smith | Phyllis Power |
| Dr Malcolm Rigler | Pip Hayes |
| Dr Tim Jones | Polly Foster |
| Dr. Joan Hinde | Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham |
| E Mather | Professor Simon Pemberton |
| E Young | R. Pushman |
| Ebbie Hulland | Rachael Troughton |
| Edith Gorst | Rachel Bennett |
| Eileen Heaney | Rachel Smith |
| Elaine O'Leary | Rachel Thompson |
| Elaine simpson | Rachel Thompson MBE |
| Elaine Smith | Ray Kay |
| Elizabeth Clark | Raymond Brookfield |
| Elizabeth McNabb | Rev John L Evans |
| Emily Brailsford | Revd Richard Kirlew |
| Emma Bould | Richard Dorman |
| Emma James | Richard Good |
| Emma Powlett | Richard Hosking |
| Emma Williams | Richard Parkinson |
| Enid Smith | Richard Sherras |
| Eric Buckley | Rita Lawson |
| Faye Mitchell | Robert A Hatt |
| Fran Mason | Robert Hodgson |
| Frances Beatty | Robert Lemmon |
| Frances Harris | Robert Marshall |
| Francis Hayden | Robert Sloan |
| Frank Cottee | Robert Wallace |
| G S Dowding | Robin Walls |
| Gail Jackson | Robin Wilkinson |
| Gail West | Roger Daniels |
| Gary Moss | Rosemary Ashley |
| Gemma Finnegan | Rosie Weaver |
| Georgina Clark | Ross Durkin |
| Geraldine Hartshorne | Rowena Salter |
| Gillian white | Ruth Coe |
| Gordon Grant | Ruth Conley |
| Grace Everett | Ruth Foster |
| Graham Yeo | Ruth West |
| Guy Browes | Ryan Wills |
| Guy Tucker | Sacha Hagar |
| H Moss | Sal Robinson |
| Harriette Dottridge | Sally Fender |
| Harry St John | Sally Lemsford |
| Hazel Smith | Sally Lewis |
| Heather Crispin | Sam Jones |
| Helen Gundry | Sam Ross |
| Helen Johns | Samantha Charles |
| Helen Richards | Samantha Haywood |
| Hilary Edwards | Samantha Hine |
| Hilary Joyce | Sandra Morrison |
| Hilary Nelson | Sandra Smith |
| Holly Lombardo | Sarah Emmett |
| Howard Maxted | Sarah Foxcroft |
| Hugh Dixon | Sarah Thompson |
| Hywel Lloyd | Sarah utting |
| Ian Cass | Saskia Syms |
| Ian Collingwood | Scott Mann MP |
| Ian Cruise-Taylor | Scott Patient |
| Ian Gennery | Sharon Jarvis |
| Ian Jenkins | Sharon Oatley |
| Ian Marshall | Shaun Beattie |
| Ian Studd | Sheila Buckfield |
| Ian Wilson | Sheila Pearce |
| Iona Parker | Sheila Summerscales |
| Jackie Lamgley | Sophie Le Metais |
| Jackie Smith | Stan Martin |
| Jacky Creswick | Stephen Andrews |
| Jacqueline Rogerson | Stephen Guy Dru Drury |
| Jacqui Channon | Stephen Macdonald |
| James Agnew | Stephen Real |
| James Alcock | Steve Cowley |
| James Catmur | Steve Critten |
| James Del Mar | Steve Diamond |
| James Weddell | Steven Alden |
| Jan Coulthard | Stuart Watts |
| Jane Blackmore | Sue Barker |
| Jane Townsend | Sue Burrows |
| Jane Westbrook | Sue Gott |
| Jane Whittaker | Sue Green |
| Jane Wright | Sue Johnson |
| Janet Carr | Sue Osborne |
| Janet Clark | Sue Rogers |
| Janice Banks | Sune Nightingale |
| Janice Bridger | Susan Beauchamp |
| Jasmine Black | Susan Ellen Smith |
| Jayne Gale | Susan L. Scotter |
| Jayne Pease | Susan Prochak |
| jean nicholls | Susan Ragbourne |
| Jean Sangster | Susan Roberts |
| Jeffrey Summers | Susan Scotter |
| Jennie Hewitt | Suzanne Rudge |
| Jennifer Weston | Teresa Crabb |
| Jenny English | Teresa Pascoe |
| Jenny Fisher | Terry Batson |
| Jeremy Cooper | Terry Grocutt |
| Jeremy Groome | Tim Christian |
| Jill White | Tim Hayward-Smith |
| Jim Beard | Tim Hopkinson |
| Jim Robertson | Timothy Coombe |
| Jjonathan Rose | Timothy Everett |
| Jo Cottee | Timothy Roberts |
| Jo Roundell Greene | Tina Greenwood |
| Jo Rust | Tom Holway |
| Jo Wood | Tom Kingstone |
| Joan Moorhouse | Tom Lindsay |
| Joan Sanger | Tom Lowry |
| Joanne Ainscough | Tony Price |
| Joanne Alderton | Trevor B Gill |
| John Barnett | Trevor Russel |
| John Beer | Tricia Fogden |
| John Doran | Valerie Kendall |
| John Firrell | Valerie Marriott |
| John Griffiths - Leader of West Suffolk Council | Vanessa Saunders |
| John Hall | Veronica Sadowsky |
| John Hatto | Vivien Margaret Twort |
| John Hawkins | Wendy Amis |
| John Howes | Wendy Bond |
| John Ingleby | Wes Hinckes |
| John Milne | William Gray |
| John Otley | William Warburg |
| John Shorter | Yaar Dagan Peretz |
Documents:→ Download our 'Time for a Rural Strategy' Report here (463KB)
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