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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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Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/
Martin Collett, Chief Executive, English Rural Housing Association
https://englishrural.org.uk/
Patrick Merton-Jones, External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation
https://www.housing.org.uk/
Tom Chance, Chief Executive, Community Land Trust Network
https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/
Rural Housing Week 2024
https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/rural- housing/rural-housing-week/
2 July 2024 Rural Housing Week Webinar
RSN Winning the Rural Vote Campaign
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/winning-the-rural-vote
Affordable Housing Chapter of Winning the Rural Vote Campaign
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/manifesto-2023/rural-affordable-housing-chapter.pdf
RSN Rural Affordable Housing News Articles
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-affordable-housing
RSN Rural Housing Analysis
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/housing-insights
Rural Housing Alliance
https://rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-alliance
Rural Recovery and Revitalisation: The Economic and Fiscal case for investing
in rural affordable housing
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/campaigns/pragmatix/2020_10_08_Report_to_CPRE_Engli.pdf
Unravelling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England
https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/State-of-Rural-Affordable-Housing_online.pdf
Rural Exception Sites
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/housing-needs-of-different-groups#rural-exception-sites
Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rural-homelessness/home/final-report/
Rural Homelessness Coalition
https://englishrural.org.uk/about-us/research/rural-homelessness-counts-coalition/
Rural Lens Review on latest DEFRA Rural Proofing Report
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-lens-review-on-defras-third-rural-proofing-report-for-2024
APPG on Rural Services
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg
Rural Services Network Fair Funding Campaign
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/fairer-funding-campaign
Rural Housing Manifesto
https://englishrural.org.uk/rural-housing-manifesto/
Housing Crisis, what will happen if we don’t act?
https://www.housing.org.uk/resources/the-housing-crisis-what-will-happen-if-we-dont-act/
Investing in social housing could add over £50bn to the economy
https://www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/investing-in-social-housing-could-add-over-50bn-to-the-economy/
National Housing Federation - Long term plan for housing
https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/a-long-term-plan-for-housing/
Community Land Trusts Manifesto 2024
https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CLT-Network-Manifesto-FINAL.pdf
Examples of CLT schemes
https://wwmartin.co.uk/news/project-completion-coxhill-road-shepherdswell
https://swanagecommunityhousing.org/
State of the Community Land Trust Sector 2023
https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/State-of-the-Sector-2023-PRESS-1.pdf
CMA finds fundamental concerns in housebuilding market
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-finds-fundamental-concerns-in-housebuilding-market
Britain’s Leading Edge Manifesto
https://www.britainsleadingedge.org/_files/ugd/7a253e_a54965e21847492eaa08de8d14d69548.pdf