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Latest news and best practice from our broad range of RSN members:
24 Jul 2018
Dementia-friendly rural communities guide
The new rural communities guide is designed to help all types of rural communities increase awareness of dementia and become more dementia-friendly. Rural communities have an important part to play...
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20 Jul 2018
Using Archive Film to Bring a Smile to the Face of People Living with Dementia
by Brian Norris of Living Memories C.I.C. Background When I had started delving into the film archive of Greenpark Productions Ltd at the end of the 20th century, I had never expected...
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20 Jul 2018
Rural Initiatives – Passivhaus
Hastoe is specialist rural housing association and we recognise the serious challenge of fuel poverty in Rural England. To tackle this problem, Hastoe has pioneered building Passivhaus homes. Passivhaus is...
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20 Jul 2018
Derbyshire pub deli delights foodies
Posted on: May 18, 2018 at 3:44 pm A multi-award-winning pub in Derbyshire has opened a farm shop and delicatessen with support from rural pub champions, Pub is The Hub....
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20 Jul 2018
Halfway House, Polbathic #2
November 27, 2017 at 4:32 pm Jessica Stanton and Russ Matterson are not new to Pub is The Hub and this is their second community-focused project: They took over the...
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20 Jul 2018
Carleton pub creates a community hub
September 14, 2017 at 9:22 am Paul Selwood and his father Philip who run The Swan Inn at Carleton in Craven, have opened a community hub and coffee shop in the...
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20 Jul 2018
School Boy Inn, Norton, Doncaster
July 31, 2017 at 10:50 am Norton has its roots in agriculture and was first recorded as a settlement in the Domesday Book. The village expanded after the Industrial Revolution...
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19 Jul 2018
Case study: Dispensing excellence in action: The College Surgery Partnership, Devon
Case study: Dispensing excellence in action: The College Surgery Partnership, Devon Describing the dispensing College Surgery Partnership in Devon as an outstanding rural practice, chief GP inspector Professor Steve Field,...
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29 Jun 2018
Finding Volunteers in Rural Areas
By outside the box, 29 June 2018 Lots of community groups and voluntary organisations find it can be a challenge to get people involved – both for formal volunteering roles and...
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