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Latest news and best practice from our broad range of RSN members:
22 Jul 2020
My Home Is Kinder To Me, My Wallet And The Planet
“My Home Is Kinder To Me, My Wallet And The Planet”: Perspectives On A Retrofit ProgrammeChristine Saunders, An English Rural Resident from the village of Clavering, Essex “It was the...
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22 Jul 2020
Dispensing Doctors’ Association – The digital divide exposed by COVID-19
COVID-19 has exposed many shortcomings in the health and social care system, and for dispensing patients in England, large among these is the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service. For...
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22 Jul 2020
Cirencester Town Centre – Resilient and Robust
Cirencester Town Council pre-empted the changing face of the high street in 2007/08, when the community plan ‘Our Future Cirencester’ was published; whilst we didn’t pre-empt the radical change in...
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22 Jul 2020
Blackdown Support Group wins £1,000 Movement for Good award
Local charity Blackdown Support Group has won a £1,000 Movement for Good award thanks to nominations from the public Blackdown Support Group is one of 500 winners in specialist insurer...
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21 May 2020
About Meadow Arts
Meadow Arts is an inspirational contemporary art charity delivering ambitious and accessible projects in unexpected rural places. Meadow Arts believes that excellent contemporary art has the power to encourage new...
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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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21 May 2020
Coronavirus and dementia: supporting rural communities
Coronavirus has been changing everyone’s daily lives. And for people with dementia, their carers and families, it’s been an especially hard time. Alzheimer’s Society is here to support anyone affected...
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21 May 2020
BASC England director, Dan Reynolds, discusses the importance of the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust
BASC England director, Dan Reynolds, discusses the importance of the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust (GWT) under the impact of coronavirus on shooting and the countryside. 2020 was being labelled ‘Year of...
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21 May 2020
Rural bus services: a vital lifeline
The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on just how critical bus services are. Bus workers have been the lifeblood of rural communities, putting their lives at risk getting keyworkers...
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21 May 2020
ConnecTED Together – Self-distancing but still ConnecTED
Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s Ageing Better Programme, the TED in East Lindsey Programme was established in 2015 to bring together diverse people in the district aged 50...
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