Our chair and Rural Advocate Stuart Burgess recently spoke at the NCVO Rural Conference 'Standing Up, Taking Part: Participation and Rural Voluntary Action', where he officially launched their Rural Proofing Guide 'Access All Areas - meeting the needs of rural communities'...

Posted on: 13th February 2007, 10:26AM

University of Gloucestershire are holding a conference on the current state of the British countryside.

Posted on: 8th February 2007, 3:37PM

The Legal Services Commission is holding a one-day conference to bring together clients, suppliers, funders and Government to discuss how best to meet need in a challenging social and economic climate.

Posted on: 7th February 2007, 9:42AM

Trevor Cherrett, our head of Planning, Housing and Transport, has been writing about planning for sustainable rural communities in January's Public Servant magazine and about rural policy in February's Planning Magazine

Posted on: 30th January 2007, 10:06AM

We've added some new questions and answers about employment in rural areas to our Key Facts section...

Posted on: 25th January 2007, 3:39PM

The new EU Lifelong Learning Programme was launched on 1 January. It provides funding for anybody involved in education - from nursery school pupils to college principals - to link up with people across Europe to learn, develop new skills and gain new perspectives. For many learners this could be a first opportunity to work or study abroad. For those who can't get away, distance learning and e-Twinning could help provide a window to the world. The following are just a few of the...

Posted on: 24th January 2007, 1:00PM

Access All Areas, NCVO’s Rural Proofing Guide for voluntary and community organisations will be launched at the conference by our chair and Rural Advocate, Stuart Burgess...

Posted on: 18th January 2007, 3:28PM

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate appeared on this morning's Farming Today...

Posted on: 14th December 2006, 11:35AM

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Our report 'Reviewing the work of parish and town councils in reducing crime' is currently featured on crimereduction.gov.uk..

Posted on: 13th December 2006, 4:56PM

We sent out our first email update today, but unfortunately the gremlins had been at work, and most people received a rather garbled message!..

Posted on: 11th December 2006, 4:51PM