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Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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The Plunkett Foundation write to Local Authority Leaders
The Plunkett Foundation (alonside other organisations) has written to Local Authority Leaders to highlight the importance of local social enterprises, co-operatives and community businesses to their local area
Local Authorities have been allocated an additional £617m in business grants to distribute to support their local economy from Government and they have some flexibility in how they distribute the funding.
The guidance from central government says that Local Authorities can prioritise different types of business which are relevant to their local economy and award grants to businesses not identified by central government which they deem in need of support.
To read the full letter click here
