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MAJOR BOOST TO THE CAMPAIGN FOR A RURAL STRATEGY:
The Independent Food, Farming & Countryside Commission hosted by the RSA in its report launched on Tuesday 16th July ‘Our Future in the Land’ has added its voice to the calls by the RSN and the House of Lords Select Committee for a comprehensive Rural Strategy (more to follow)
15.07.2019
Time for a rural strategy
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The RSN believes that the Government should take the lead and work with interested organisations to produce a comprehensive long term and funded Rural Strategy.
We have developed a Template Rural Strategy which sets out the rational for calling for such a strategy. We believe that it should include the following component parts and the Template Rural Strategy sets out evidence to support their inclusion:
- A Thriving Rural Economy
- A Digitally connected countryside
- A Place everyone can get around
- An Affordable Place to live
- A fair deal on health and social care
- A Place to learn and grow
- A settlement (including fair funding for rural services) to support local action
- A rural proofed policy framework
→ Download the RSN template 'Time for a Rural Strategy' Report here
We call on Government to produce a Rural Strategy to set out their priorities for Englands Rural Communities and the Rural Economy for the future and we ask you to support this call.
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→ The campaign has featured heavily in press across the country. Details can be found here
→ A summary of the 'Rural England – A different place demands a different strategy' event held in Taunton can be found here
The following individuals and organisations also support this call:
(Last update 13.06.19)
Organisations:
| A1 Perfect Plumbing Ltd | Hebden Royd Town Council |
| Access4Riders | Henley in arden parish council |
| ACRE | Hitcham Parish Council |
| Action Hampshire | Holsworthy Town Council |
| Airton Parish Meeting | Horton cum Studley Parish Council |
| Aislaby Parish Council | Husthwaite Newsletter |
| Aldwark Area Parish Council | In Education |
| Alnmouth Parish Council | Ingleton in Bloom |
| Alveley and Romsley Parish Council | Ingleton Parish Council |
| Alzheimer's Society | Institute of Economic Development |
| Anglia Rural Consultants | J C & Associates Limited |
| Ashbury Parish Council | Joe’s Cafe South Beach |
| Ash-cum-Ridley Parish Council | Karbon Homes |
| Ashill Parish Council | Keele University |
| Ashley Farm | Kenninghall Parish Council |
| Ashley Parish Meeting | Kirkgate Arts |
| Ashton Parish Council | Lamberhurst Parish Council |
| Barchester Court ltd | Lamplugh Village Hall |
| Barnwell Parish Council | Langtoft Parish Council |
| Barrowden Parish Council | Launceston Town Council |
| Baxby Microlights ltd | Lezant Parish Council |
| Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity | Lidgate Parish Council |
| Betchworth Parish Council | Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association |
| BH Trees & Woodland Consultancy Ltd | Lindsey and Coastal Action Zone LEADER Programme, Lincolnshirel County Council |
| BHS | LiNKWELL good neighbour scheme |
| Bickerstaffe Parish Council | Litton Cheney Parish Council |
| Bicknoller parish council | Maldon District Council |
| Bidborough Parish Council | Malvern Hills District Council |
| Bishop Burton College | Maresfield Parish Council |
| Blackdown Support Group | Mawnan Parish Council |
| Bolton Parish Council | Melchet Park & Plaitford Parish C |
| Boston Borough Council | Membury Parish Council |
| Boxgrove Parish Council | Mendham Parish Council |
| Bradninch Town Council | Mendip district council |
| Branxton Parish Council | Meriden Parish Council |
| Breage Parish Council | Midlands Rural Housing |
| Bridestowe Parish Council | Modbury Parish Council |
| Bridport Environment Group | Moorsbus Community Interest Company |
| Bridport Local Area Partnership | Myerscough College |
| Bright Estates | Nailsea Town council |
| Brinkburn & Hesleyhurst Parish Council | National Association of Local Councils |
| Briston Parish Council | National Centre for Rural Health and Care |
| Brixton Parish Council | National Housing Federation |
| Broadmayne Parish Council | National Rural Touring Forum |
| Burythorpe Parish Council | NDVS (North Devon Voluntary Services) |
| BV & SM Johnson | Netherseal Parish Council |
| Caldy Nature Park | Newtown Linford Parish Council |
| Cam Parish Council | North Somercotes Parish Council |
| Campaign to Protect Rural England | Northamptonshire ACRE |
| CDA Herts | Nowton parish council |
| Chair Waveney Valley Local Action group (RDPE-LEADER) | Okehampton Hamlets Parish Council |
| Cheshire Community Action | Okehampton Town Council |
| Cheshire East Council | Old Hunstanton Parish Council |
| Cheshire West and Chester Council | Orton Parish Meeting |
| Chetwynd Aston and Woodcote Parish Council | Ousden Parish Council |
| Church of England | Owstan Ltd |
| Church of England (Parish of the Upper Wreake, Leicester Diocese) | Parkinsons UK |
| Clackclose100 | Partners in Health ( Midland) Ltd. |
| Cockermouth Town Council | Pentabus Theatre |
| Communities Can Limited | Peter Tavy Parish Council |
| Community Action Northumberland | Plunkett Foundation |
| Community Council for Somerset (CCS) | Powlett & associates Ltd |
| Community First in Herefordshire and Worcestershire | Pulborough Parish Council |
| Community Lincs | Pym's Consultancy Ltd |
| Compton Dando Parish Council | pyrometallurgical consultancy |
| Compton Dando Parish Hall | Quainton Parish Council |
| Constantine Enterprise Company | Ribble Valley Borough Council |
| Corfe Castle Parish Council | Risby Parish Council |
| Cornwall Council | RKK Ltd |
| Cornwall Rural Community Charity | Rowlands Castle Parish Council |
| Cornwall Rural Housing Association | Royal Town Planning Institute |
| Country Land and Business Association (CLA) | Rural Action Derbyshire |
| Countryside Alliance | Rural Services Network |
| Cowlinge Parish Council | Rural West Sussex Partnership |
| CPRE Northumberland | Sacriston Parish Council |
| Crick Parish Council | Sampford Arundel Parish Council |
| Crowan Parish Council | Santa's Food Workshop |
| CSW Group | Seafair |
| Cumbria County Council | Sherborne Deanery Rural Chaplaincy |
| Cusgarne Organic Farm | Smallburgh Parish Council |
| DALC | Smith and Tucker Farms Ltd |
| Dalham Parish Council | Snettisham Parish Council |
| Daventry District Council | South Hams District Council |
| Devon County Council | South Huish Parish Council |
| Dorset Community Transport | Spilsby Good Neighbour Scheme |
| Dorset CPRE | St Catherine Parish Meeting |
| Dowsby Parish Council | St Day Parish Council |
| Eagle Parish Council | St Edmundsbury Borough Council |
| East Devon District Council | St Germans Charitable Trust |
| East Markham Parish Council | St Gluvias Parish Council |
| East Riding of Yorkshire Council | St Marks Church Scarisbrick |
| East Suffolk Councillor | Stansfield Parish Council |
| Eastham Parish Council | Stanway Parish Council |
| Easton and Otley College | Staverton Parish Council |
| Eden Housing Association | Stelling Minnis Parish Council |
| Elstead PC | Sticklepath Parish Council |
| English Rural Housing Association | Sunniside Community Association |
| Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby PC | Sutton Bridge & Wingland Parish Council |
| Essex Police | Tattingstone Parish Council |
| Etchingham Parish Council | Tees Valley Rural Action |
| Everybody "Get On Board" | Teignbridge District Council |
| Exmoor National Park Authority | The Clacklose Hundred CBS |
| Exstream Networks Ltd | The DR Company |
| Farlington Parish Meeting | The Flower Export Co Ltd |
| Farming & Rural Issues Group South East | The Forum of Private Business |
| Farthinghoe Parish Council | The Methodist and United Reformed Churches |
| FCN | The National Centre for Rural Health & Care |
| Feltwell Parish Council | The Rural Services Partnership |
| Fenstanton Parish Council | The Trails Trust |
| FirstGroup UK Bus Division | Tiffield Parish Council |
| FoCS &Constantine Enterprise Co | Tredington Parish Council |
| Forest Heath District Council | Trent and Dove Housing |
| Forest of Dean Green Party | Upper Beeding Parish Council |
| Friends of Constantine Surgery | W.A.T.A.G. |
| Friends of the Lake District | Warwickshire Older People’s Forum |
| Granborough Parish Council | West Devon Borough Council |
| GRCC | West Lakes Adventure |
| Great & Little Carlton Parish Council | West Lindsey District Council |
| Great Addington Parish Council | West Somerset Council |
| Great Gransden Parish Council | What's On In Landbeach (Village newsletter) |
| Gweek Parish Council | Whorlton & Swainby Parish Council |
| Gwennap Parish Council | Willey Parish Council |
| Hampshire County Council | Wiltshire College - Lackham |
| Hamsey Parish Council | Wiltshire College & University Centre |
| Harrington Parish Council | Winford Parish Council |
| Harston Parish Council | Winteringham Parish Council |
| Hastoe Group | Wittersham Parish Council |
| Hastoe Housing Association | Woodchester Parish Council |
| Haughton Parish Council | World Organisation of Family Doctors Rural Group (RuralWonca) |
| Hayton Parish Council | Yarnton Parish Council |
| HB Villages Ltd | Yelvertoft Parish Council |
| Hebden Parish Council | Young Somerset |
Individuals:
| A. Crouchman | John Shorter |
| Abby Navarre | Jon Moss |
| Adam Paynter- Leader of Cornwall Council | Jon Turner |
| Adrian Louis | Jonathan Rose |
| Alan Parker | Josephine Parish |
| Alastair Sheehan | Joyce Hutchinson |
| Alison Abraham | Jude Considine |
| Alison Brown | Judith Pressley |
| Alison Cruse | Judy Bell |
| Alison Robinson | Julia Ford |
| Alistair Banks | Julia Plinston |
| Allan Redfern | Julia Tingle |
| Allan Scott | Julian Tatam |
| Amanda Brown | Julian True |
| Amber Nuttall | Julie Hardy |
| Andrew Dyke | Juliet Williams |
| Andrew Fitter | Karl Love |
| Andrew Lanham | Katharine Harrod |
| Andrew McDonald | Kathleen Pym |
| Andrew Shaw | Kathy Cuthbert |
| Andrew Simkins | Keeley Rudd |
| Andrew Talliss | Keith Riste |
| Andy Blackwell | Keith Townson |
| Angela Barnes | Ken Christy |
| Anica Alvarez Nishio | Ken Clifford |
| Ann Day | Ken Johnson |
| Ann Hindley | Kenneth Bray |
| Anne Kemp | Kevin Forbes Mitchell |
| Anne Lawson | Kevin Furnish |
| Anne-Marie Spalding | Kevin Hynes |
| Anthony Trollope-Bellew - Leader of West Somerset Council | Kevin Kendall |
| Anthony W Penn | Kevin Wood |
| Antoinette Wisbey | Kim Atkinson |
| Avis Thomas | Kirsty McDowell |
| B Fludgate | Lesley Everett |
| Barbara Fisher | Lesley Long |
| Barbara Le Gallez | Lesley Woledge |
| Barbara Stanway | Leslie Hann |
| Ben Hogben | Linda Harman |
| Beryl Janet JAMES | Lisa Clements |
| Beth Martin | Lisa Dixon |
| Bev Iles | Liz Berry |
| Beverley Parker | Lois Rowlands |
| Bishop John Stroyan | Louisa Lockwood |
| Bishop of Ely | Louise Haywood |
| Bob Watters | Louise Tucker |
| Bob Welch | M F Holmes |
| Brenda Weston | M. Brombley |
| Brian Foley | Malcolm Baldwin |
| Brian Wilson | Marguerite Shapland |
| Bruce Heywood | Mark Haworth-Booth |
| Carol Mew | Mark Herriott |
| Carol Perry | Mark McEvilly |
| Caroline Ashall | Mark Nash-Williams (Revd) |
| Carolyn Peck | Mark Turner |
| Catherine Hitchens | Marshal Scott - Chief Executive of Bibble Valley Borough Council |
| Catrin John | Martin Craddock |
| Charles Wild | Martin Rowell |
| Charlotte Squire | Martin Weston |
| Cherry Ekins | Martin Windley |
| Chris Bell | Melanie Thew |
| Chris Bridgman | Melissa Whittaker |
| Chris Bright | Merietta Raymond |
| Chris Cowcher | Mervyn Benford |
| Chris Everidge | Michael David John Price |
| Chris Higgins | Michael Lyons |
| Chris Lambert | Michael Toogood |
| Christine Patty | Mike Allen |
| Christine Rust | Mike Cooper |
| Christopher Matijasevic | Mike Gant |
| Claire Brooks | Mike Hawes |
| Claire Way | Mike Stanton |
| Clare Gamble | Mike Willmott |
| Clare Mahaddie | Mr Ray Shapland |
| Clive Neal-Sturgess | Mrs B. Uren |
| Cllr Bill Lane | Mrs Checkley |
| Cllr Jan Goffey | Mrs Emma Dunn |
| Cllr Julie Yelland | Mrs Gesella J Tidy |
| Cllr Melissa Whittaker-Mather | Mrs Jane Virginia Stollery |
| Cllr Mike Lovell | Mrs Jean S Sangster |
| Cllr Nathan Garbutt Moore | Mrs Victoria Firth |
| Cllr Norma Raynes | Myles Thomas |
| Cllr Tamsyn d'Arienzo | Nathan Harmer-Taylor |
| Cllr. Nigel Shaw | Neil Watson |
| Colin Adsley | Nick Boothroyd |
| Colin Parnell | Nick Edmonds |
| Colin Smith | Nick Morton |
| Colin Stroud | Nicky Bishop |
| Colin Tindill | Nicola Kingman |
| Councillor Gary Cowan | Nicola Salter |
| Councillor Kate Parkinson | Nik Harwood |
| Daniel Tebbutt | Owen Bierley |
| Daniel Walton | Patricia Holtom |
| Dave Lewis | Patrick Kimber |
| David Ansbro | Patrick Spink |
| David Cohen | Paul Booton |
| David Darlow | Paul Cranstone |
| David Evans | Paul French |
| David Gluck | Paul Graham |
| David Harknett | Paul Heinrich |
| David Jeffels | Paul Rogers |
| David Rawlinson | Paul Simpson |
| David Roe | Paulette Barton |
| David Simpson | Peter Carrell |
| David Webb | Peter Clarke |
| Dawn Beeby | Peter Cowx |
| Debbie Reyland | Peter Daniels |
| Deborah Munro | Peter Fane |
| Deborah Sellis | Peter Griffiths |
| Denis Pye | Peter Hodge |
| Derek Nicholls | Peter Holmes |
| Diana Garrod | Peter Jones |
| Diane Elphinstone | Peter Moore |
| Donald MacIntyre | Peter Sleet |
| Doreen M Shineton | Phil Galpin |
| Dr Alan Rogers | Philip Cornish |
| Dr Clive Waddington | Philip Cupit |
| Dr Gordon Morris | Philip Ham |
| Dr Kreseda Smith | Philip Paul |
| Dr Malcolm Rigler | Philippa Paget |
| Dr. Joan Hinde | Phyllis Power |
| E Mather | Pip Hayes |
| E Young | Polly Foster |
| Ebbie Hulland | Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham |
| Eileen Heaney | Professor Simon Pemberton |
| Elaine O'Leary | R. Pushman |
| Elaine simpson | Rachael Troughton |
| Elaine Smith | Rachel Bennett |
| Elizabeth Clark | Rachel Smith |
| Elizabeth McNabb | Rachel Thompson MBE |
| Emily Brailsford | Ray Kay |
| Emma Bould | Raymond Brookfield |
| Emma James | Rev John L Evans |
| Emma Powlett | Revd Richard Kirlew |
| Emma Williams | Richard Dorman |
| Enid Smith | Richard Hosking |
| Eric Buckley | Richard Parkinson |
| Faye Mitchell | Richard Sherras |
| Fran Mason | Rita Lawson |
| Frances Beatty | Robert A Hatt |
| Frances Harris | Robert Hodgson |
| Francis Hayden | Robert Lemmon |
| Frank Cottee | Robert Marshall |
| G S Dowding | Robert Sloan |
| Gail Jackson | Robert Wallace |
| Gary Moss | Robin Walls |
| Gemma Finnegan | Robin Wilkinson |
| Georgina Clark | Roger Daniels |
| Geraldine Hartshorne | Rosie Weaver |
| Gillian white | Ross Durkin |
| Grace Everett | Rowena Salter |
| Guy Browes | Ruth Coe |
| Guy Tucker | Ruth Conley |
| H Moss | Ruth Foster |
| Harriette Dottridge | Ruth West |
| Harry St John | Sacha Hagar |
| Hazel Smith | Sally Lemsford |
| Heather Crispan | Sally Lewis |
| Helen Gundry | Sally Samuels |
| Helen Johns | Sam Jones |
| Helen Richards | Sam Ross |
| Hilary Edwards | Samantha Charles |
| Hilary Joyce | Samantha Haywood |
| Hilary Nelson | Samantha Hine |
| Holly Lombardo | Sandra Morrison |
| Howard Maxted | Sandra Smith |
| Hugh Dixon | Sarah Foxcroft |
| Hywel Lloyd | Sarah Thompson |
| Ian Cass | Sarah Utting |
| Ian Collingwood | Saskia Syms |
| Ian Cruise-Taylor | Scott Mann MP |
| Ian Gennery | Sharon Jarvis |
| Ian Jenkins | Sharon Oatley |
| Ian Marshall | Shaun Beattie |
| Ian Studd | Sheila Buckfield |
| Ian Wilson | Sheila Pearce |
| Iona Parker | Sheila Summerscales |
| Jackie Smith | Stan Martin |
| Jacky Creswick | Stephen Guy Dru Drury |
| Jacqueline Rogerson | Stephen Macdonald |
| Jacqui Channon | Stephen Real |
| James Agnew | Steve Cowley |
| James Alcock | Steve Critten |
| James Catmur | Steve Diamond |
| james Del Mar | Steven Alden |
| James Weddell | Stuart Watts |
| Jan Coulthard | Sue Barker |
| Jane Blackmore | Sue Burrows |
| Jane Townsend | Sue Gott |
| Jane Westbrook | Sue Green |
| Jane Whittaker | Sue Johnson |
| Jane Wright | Sue Osborne |
| Janet Carr | Sue Rogers |
| Janet Clark | Sune Nightingale |
| Janice Banks | Susan Beauchamp |
| Janice Bridger | Susan Ellen Smith |
| Jasmine Black | Susan L. Scotter |
| Jayne Gale | Susan Prochak |
| Jayne Pease | Susan Ragbourne |
| Jean Nicholls | Susan Roberts |
| Jean Sangster | Susan Scotter |
| Jeffrey Summers | Suzanne Rudge |
| Jennifer Weston | Teresa Crabb |
| Jenny English | Teresa Pascoe |
| Jeremy Cooper | Terry Batson |
| Jeremy Groome | Terry Grocutt |
| Jill White | Tim Christian |
| Jim Beard | Tim Hayward-Smith |
| Jo Cottee | Tim Hopkinson |
| Jo Roundell Greene | Timothy Everett |
| Jo Rust | Timothy Roberts |
| Jo Wood | Tina Greenwood |
| Joan Moorhouse | Tom Holway |
| Joan Sanger | Tom Kingstone |
| Joanne Ainscough | Tom Lindsay |
| Joanne Alderton | Tom Lowry |
| John Barnett | Tony Price |
| John Beer | Trevor B Gill |
| John Doran | Trevor Russel |
| John Firrell | Valerie Marriott |
| John Griffiths - Leader of West Suffolk Council | Vanessa Saunders |
| John Hall | Veronica Sadowsky |
| John Hatto | Vivien Margaret Twort |
| John Hawkins | Wendy Amis |
| John Howes | Wes Hinckes |
| John Ingleby | William Gray |
| John Milne | William Warburg |
| John Otley | Yaar Dagan Peretz |
Documents:→ Download our 'Time for a Rural Strategy' Report here (463KB)
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