ACRE
28 Sep 2020
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19
Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19 Rural Coalition urges Government to unlock untapped potential of rural communities and economies and to address...
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01 Sep 2020
New rules will worsen the rural housing crisis
A letter, co-signed by the Rural Services Network, the Rural Housing Alliance, Plunkett Foundation and Acre has been featured in the Telegraph on 29th August 2020, highlighting the rural housing...
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13 Jul 2020
The Rural Housing Alliance ask the Government to focus on rural housing
The Rural Services Network, along with the Rural Housing Alliance, the National Housing Federation and Acre, have written to Secretary of State Robert Jenrick MP in Rural Housing Week to...
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15 Jun 2020
From floods to pandemics – resilience for rural communities at times of crisis
Communities Prepared (a Groundwork South programme) and Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) have published a new guide to help rural communities become more resilient in the face of...
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21 May 2020
England’s rural Village and Community Halls are survivors!
The history of village halls goes back over 100 years. Deborah Clarke, Action with Communities in Rural England’s (ACRE) Rural Evidence and Village Halls Manager considers what the future holds...
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10 Feb 2020
Crucial Census – National Village and Community Hall Survey
The ACRE Network needs your help for a crucial census. Carried out once every ten years the survey will provide up to date information about halls and the social and...
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30 Jul 2019
Rural Group reach out to new PM
The Rural Services Network, ACRE, Plunkett Foundation and Rural Coalition have written to the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP to highlight issues of concern in rural areas and call...
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08 Jan 2019
Celebrate England’s 10,000 Village Halls
National Charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and their 38 member organisations are running a week long campaign to celebrate England’s 10,000 Village Halls. Village Halls are an...
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25 May 2017
General Election 2017: ACRE’s ‘rural asks’
ACTION with Communities in Rural England has warned that future government policy must be fully ‘rural proofed’. The charity published its ‘Election Asks‘ after the main political parties published their manifestos...
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