The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently issued a call for proposals for activities to contribute to the aims and objectives of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.

Posted on: 24th August 2009, 11:51AM

Crispin Moor, our Executive Director - Whitehall, has blogged for New Start magazine about how disaggregating the National Indicator sets (NIs) to to a below local area agreement (LAA) geographic level could help secure proportionate delivery of LAA targets to rural and other local communities.

Posted on: 6th August 2009, 9:34AM

Elinor Goodman, one of our Commissioners, has been interviewed for the latest issue of Landworker magazine.

Posted on: 3rd August 2009, 2:14PM

Village SOS is searching for six UK villages with a great business idea and six enterprising individuals to act as Village Champions to help them achieve their ambitions.

Posted on: 27th July 2009, 11:30AM

The Environment Agency is seeking submissions from the wider professional community for the seminar programme of their annual conference 'environment 09: creating the climate for change'.

Posted on: 22nd July 2009, 4:47PM

Congratulations to Richard Burge, one of our Commissioners, who's been appointed as Chief Executive of Wilton Park.

Posted on: 22nd July 2009, 2:52PM

participation inquiry found that creating unitary councils should strengthen and clarify local democracy and accountability, helping rural local government to punch its weight with city-regions and regional bodies. It recommended a structure of powerful new unitaries working closely with a renewed network of empowered parish and town councils.The BCs decision on the status of the current amber light unitaries of Devon, Suffolk and Norfolk is now due in October, following a further...

Posted on: 21st July 2009, 2:21PM

The latest issue of Green Futures magazine looks at how access to high quality broadband is a postcode lottery where rural areas draw the short straw.

Posted on: 21st July 2009, 12:28PM

Crispin Moor, our Executive Director - Whitehall, has blogged for New Start magazine about how and why Rural Proofing can help effectively deliver mainstream policies and programmes.

Posted on: 20th July 2009, 3:39PM

Cabinet Office and the Department of Health are undertaking a short study looking at primary health care for socially excluded groups.

Posted on: 16th July 2009, 4:48PM