Rural 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.
24 Oct 2022
‘Warm banks’ and ‘mobile community shop’ set for rural villages
Lincolnshire Live reports that organisations helping local residents deal with the rising cost of living will be granted £65,000 towards ‘warm banks’ and a mobile food shop for rural areas,...
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17 Oct 2022
Government Energy Bill Survey
The Department for Business are asking all businesses to respond to a survey on energy bills and the impact increased costs are having on your business The Association of Convenience...
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17 Oct 2022
Government to consider fuel price comparison scheme
The BBC reports that the government is contemplating the introduction of a fuel price checker which would allow drivers to compare costs of petrol and diesel, with Transport Secretary Anne-Marie...
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17 Oct 2022
The Telecoms Bill will unleash rural connectivity and boost productivity
Writing for Politics Home, Selaine Saxby MP, Conservative MP for North Devon, argues that digital connectivity should be at the forefront of the levelling up agenda for rural areas, which...
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10 Oct 2022
Call for Rural to be at the heart of the journey to Net Zero
The impacts of dangerous climate change will affect all communities. This much is already clear from the rural impacts of increasingly frequent storm damage, flood events and periods of drought....
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10 Oct 2022
Councils call for delay to flagship social care reforms, warning services face a ‘perfect storm’ of financial and workforce pressures over the next 12 months
With a year to go until the introduction of flagship reforms in adult social care, England’s largest councils call for a delay – warning that the system is under so...
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10 Oct 2022
Over £12 million awarded to dozens of organisations supporting vulnerable energy consumers and developing carbon reduction projects
The Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme (Energy Redress Scheme) has awarded £12.7 million in grants to 36 organisations across England, Scotland and Wales in its latest funding round These...
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10 Oct 2022
Uber style’ bus service to increase hours to help rural communities in Cambridgeshire
Cambridge News reports that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has announced that an ‘Uber style’ bus service will be extending its hours to cater for rural communities, starting from...
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03 Oct 2022
Rural homelessness increasing due to cost-of-living crisis, research finds
New research being conducted by the University of Kent and the University of Southampton has found that the cost-of-living crisis and the critical shortage of affordable homes has increased rural...
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03 Oct 2022
What happens when all the banks leave town?
The BBC reports that it’s been a couple of months since the last bank closed its doors in Brechin Some people have hardly noticed. They moved to internet banking years...
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