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14 Sep 2021
Rural Media film shortlisted for Best Scripted Short at Broadcast Digital Awards
Rural Media’s New Creatives short-film Aisle 17 has been shortlisted for Best-Scripted Short at the 2021 Broadcast Digital Awards The Broadcast Digital Awards are a national, industry recognised award programme...
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06 Sep 2021
Advice service extends to rural communities
The Gazette and Herald reports that Citizens Advice Mid North Yorkshire’s Rural Advice Van is now visiting venues across the district following the success of a pilot scheme in Hambleton...
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31 Aug 2021
Rural areas hardest hit by youth work cuts, NYA warns
Cuts to youth work services in rural areas have left young people at risk of grooming from criminal gangs, poor mental health and a lack of employment support, according to...
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31 Aug 2021
Have you got a vision for your village?
The Prince’s Countryside Fund is inviting applications for grants of up to £25,000 from innovative projects that will create a long-term difference in remote rural areas of the UK The...
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23 Aug 2021
Urgent and Rural Medicine
Upskill and strengthen your medical team with our range of postgraduate and professional courses The School of Medicine and its National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine, offer programmes to...
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23 Aug 2021
The chain of survival saves lives. Is it time to add another link?
By Martin Fagan, National Secretary, The Community Heartbeat Trust charity The key for saving lives, as amply demonstrated by the saving of Christian Eriksen at the Euro’s, was the application...
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16 Aug 2021
Bipolar Commission launch survey focusing on access to services and treatments for the condition
This month the Bipolar Commission is launching our second survey for people who live with bipolar disorder This survey is about access to services and treatments for the condition. The...
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09 Aug 2021
Six ‘must haves’ for Boris’ levelling up vision
This article (written by Nigel Wilcock, executive director of the Institute of Economic Development) appeared in LocalGov Whilst attention this week is on so-called ‘Freedom Day’, those of us working in...
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09 Aug 2021
Isn’t it about time we standardised on international defibrillator signage?
CHT is calling for continuity and simplicity in defibrillator signage, and the full adoption of ILCOR defibrillator signage throughout the UK In the UK there are currently at least 13...
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23 Jul 2021
Business support project launched in the North of Tyne region aimed at developing solutions to support local rural communities
It can be wrongly assumed that the rural economy is all about agriculture or land-based activities. However, we know that in practice, the rural economy is much more diverse. The...
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