Ashford Volunteer CentreThe RSN works to encourage a thriving rural economy in order to help support our rural communities.
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RSP Members
The Rural Services partnership members are listed below (217)
New Members:
 Northumbria University |
 Cambridgeshire ACRE |
 Meadow Arts |
 Nidderdale Plus Community Hub |
 No 65 High Street - Digital Health Hub |
 Rural Business Network |
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 The Exam House |
Established Members:
 Abingdon Risk Consulting |
 ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) |
 Age UK |
 Alertacall |
 Alzheimer's Society |
 Anglia Ruskin University |
 APSE(Assn Public Service Excellence) |
 Arts Council England |
 BASC (British Assn for Shooting & Conservation) |
 Bipolar UK |
 Birmingham Business School |
 Blackdown Support Group |
 Bus Users UK |
 c.co |
 CAfS (Cumbria Action for Sustainability) |
 Calor Ltd |
 Chichester in Partnership |
 Cirencester Town Council |
 Citizens Advice |
 Community Catalysts |
 Community Lincs |
 Cornwall Rural Community Charity |
 Countryside Alliance |
 CPRE (The Countryside Charity) |
 CSW Group |
 Dartmoor National Park |
 Dispensing Doctors' Association |
 East Yorkshire Buses |
 Exmoor National Park |
 Farming Community Network |
 Federation of Women's Institute |
 FirstGroup plc |
 Forum of Private Business |
 Arthur Rank Centre |
 Greater Lincolnshire LEP |
 Home instead Senior Care |
 iED (Institute of Economic Development) |
 Innovation Agency (AHSN NE Coast) |
 Landex (x 52 colleges) |
 Lantra |
 Lincolnshire Co-op |
 Lincolnshire LMC |
 Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project CIC |
 Linkage Community Trust |
 Living Memories C.I.C |
 Locality |
 Midlands Connect |
 National Association of Local Councils (NALC) |
 National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) |
 National Youth Agency |
 NFU (National Farmers Union) |
 Northamptonshire ACRE |
 Note Machine UK Ltd |
 OALC (Oxfordshire Association of Local Councils) |
 Openreach |
 Outside the Box |
 Peak District National Park |
 Pentabus |
 Plunkett Foundation |
 Post Office |
 Prince's Countryside Fund |
 Pub is the Hub |
 Pym's Consultancy Ltd |
 Raising Aspirations Empowering Change Ltd |
 Royal Society for Public Health |
 Rural Business Awards |
 Rural Cultural Forum |
 Rural Media |
 Sherborne Deanery Rural Chaplaincy |
 South Downs National Park Authority |
 South Holland Rural Action Zone |
 South West Academic Health Science Network |
 South West Mutual |
 Support in Mind Scotland |
 Tees Valley Rural Action |
 Together Lancashire |
 The Community Heartbeat Trust |
 The National Federation of Sub-Postmasters |
 TRL Insight |
 UK Pellet Council |
 UK Youth |
 University of Lincoln |
 Vectos (South) Ltd |
 Young Somerset |
 Youth Employment UK |
Fire and Rescue Members:
 Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue |
 Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service |
 Cumbria Fire and Rescue |
 Essex Fire & Rescue |
 Gloucester Fire & Rescue |
 Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue |
 Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue |
 Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue |
 Shropshire and Wrekin Fire & Rescue |
 Suffolk Fire and Rescue |
Health Members:
 Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
 East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust |
 Essex Partnership University NHS Trust |
 Health Education England |
 Hereford & Worcester STP |
 Isle of Wight NHS Trust |
 Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust |
 Lincolnshire CCGs |
 LIVES |
 NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
 Norfolk & Waveney STP |
 North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
 Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
 Oxford Health NHS FT |
 Plymouth University (Medicine & Dentistry Faculty) |
 Royal College of General Practitioners, Rural Forum |
 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust |
 Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust |
 Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust |
 Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
 Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust |
 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
 West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust |
 Wye Valley NHS Trust |
We also have 80 members all with an interest in Health who form the Rural Health Care Alliance click here to find out more
Housing Members:
 Action Hampshire Homes Hub |
 Aster Group |
 Broadacre Housing Association |
 Cirencester Housing |
 Connexus |
 Cornwall Rural Housing Association Limited |
 Eden Housing Association |
 English Rural Housing Association |
 Hastoe Housing Association Ltd |
 HB Villages Ltd |
 Housing Plus Group |
 LACE Housing Association |
 Lincs Rural Housing Association |
 Longhurst Group (Housing Association) |
 Midlands Rural Housing |
 National Housing Federation |
 Shropshire Rural Housing Association |
 South Devon Rural Housing |
 Southwestern Housing Society |
 Sovereign Housing Association |
 Stafford and Rural Homes (Housing Plus Group) |
 Trent & Dove Housing |
 White Horse Housing Association |
 Wrekin Housing Trust |
Utilities Members:
 Cadent Gas |
 Green Energy |
 Northern Powergrid (North East) |
 Scottish Power |
 SES Water |
 South East Water |
 Southern Water |
 United Utilities |
 Utility Week |
 Wales and West Utilities Ltd |
 Western Power Distribution |
 Wessex Water |
OTHER MEMBERSHIP GROUPINGS:
Click on the logos to view our members across all the grouping that form the Rural Services Network
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23.11.2020
The Exam House is a private candidate Exam centre. Including GCSE & A Level exams to private candidates outside of school or college. Rural home learners and exam candidates who often do not have the opportunity to sit exams at their...
03.09.2020
Rural Business Network is a community of like-minded people, members have the opportunity to learn, connect and grow by attending on-line events full of knowledge and inspiration There are 219,00 farms in the UK and recent findings by NFU...
10.08.2020
Cambridgeshire ACRE is the rural community council for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We are a member of the ACRE Network of 38 local development charities that influence on rural issues and deliver rural projects across England. We work together to...
09.07.2020
Nidderdale Plus Community Hub provides services, help and advice to residents and visitors to Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. We are based in Pateley Bridge and the vast majority of our services are delivered by volunteers, with only 1.8 FTE members...
13.06.2020
No 65 High Street is a friendly and informal community venue in Nailsea, North Somerset (about ten miles south west of Bristol). Our town functions as a local centre of health, education, leisure, retail and employment, both for local residents...
27.05.2020
Private home care for older people founded on personal experience Home Instead Senior Care is a world leading private home care company founded in 1994 by husband and wife Paul and Lori Hogan. The pair struggled to find personalised care...
20.05.2020
ABOUT MEADOW ARTS Who We Are and What We Do We are an inspirational contemporary art charity delivering ambitious and accessible projects in unexpected rural places. Since 2004, Meadow Arts has been challenging established notions...
29.04.2020
Wales & West Utilities , a bit about us… Every day our skilled and dedicated colleagues do their very best to keep our 7.5 million customers safe and warm, with a gas network they can rely on and a...
29.04.2020
ScottishPower plc is part of the Iberdrola Group which is one of the five largest global energy companies and is a leader in the development of renewable technologies. Over the last 10 years Iberdrola has undertaken an expansion and...
29.04.2020
Northern Powergrid run the electricity distribution network that provides power to customers in the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. We move electricity to and from homes and businesses over our network. As a large business in our region, we...
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HOT TOPICS
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
Rural residents can suffer from Rural Vulnerability, due to a combination of issues such as poor transport, lack of broadband low wages and higher than average house prices.
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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