Author: <span>Belal Almassri</span>

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19 Dec 2016

Agenda of Rural Health Conference 2017

  Arrival and registration – Tea and coffee available 11:00 am Keynote talk Cllr Izzi Seccombe – Leader of Warwickshire County Council and Chair of the LGA Community Well-Being Board...

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08 Jul 2016

Bath & North East Somerset

  Working for our part of Rural England with the Rural Services Network       Location: South West Population: 187,800 (2016) Interesting fact: Pulteney Bridge in Bath, which has shops...

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19 May 2016

Research into Rural Strategies

We have carried out a survey of Member Authorities exploring Rural Strategies. This research looks at whether authorities have a specific rural strategy or whether they mainstream rural proofing into...

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02 Nov 2015

APPG Meeting Minutes – 9th June 2015 (AGM)

9th June 2015 Notes    

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22 Jul 2015

Surrey

  Working for our part of Rural England with the Rural Services Network       Location: South East Population: 1,168,809 (Mid-year estimate 2015) Interesting fact: In the third week of July...

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20 Mar 2015

Rural Crime Network – Services

National Rural Crime Network website launchedThe new National Rural Crime Network is now live. The formation of the NRCN was originally conceived by the Rural Services Network which acts as a...

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12 Mar 2015

Community Group – Services

The Rural Services Community is a unique part of our network which has been set up as a result of the local authorities that form part of the Rural Services...

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05 Dec 2014

Rural proofing – calls to Government

The Rural Services Network calls upon an incoming Government to: Recommit to the principle of rural proofing by Whitehall and its delivery agencies, to ensure a fair outcome for rural...

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04 Dec 2014

The rural economy – calls to Government

The Rural Services Network then calls upon an incoming Government to: Recognise the important contribution that rural areas make to the nation’s economic wellbeing and reflect this explicitly in its...

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04 Dec 2014

Broadband and mobile connectivity – calls to Government

Two issues demand urgent resolution, these being to: Permit greater flexibility in what its agency, BDUK, allows to be counted as match funding for Government broadband investment programmes, so that...

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