Our Chairman and the Government's Rural Advocate, Dr Stuart Burgess, has launched his Rural Advocate Report 2010 to the Government today (Thursday 4 March).

 4th March 2010

Dr Stuart Burgess, the Rural Advocate will be visiting Cockermouth in Cumbria to see first-hand the effects of the unprecedented levels of flooding in the area.

 23rd November 2009

NALC's Justin Griggs interviewed Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, on camera after our recent Rural Reception at the Conservative party conference.

 9th October 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, has been interviewed in the latest issue of Regeneration & Renewal.

 6th October 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Easington in County Durham today, to investigate the issues surround fuel poverty in rural areas.

 16th September 2009

We'd like to congratulate Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, who has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for his public and voluntary service.

 13th June 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Cumbria with the Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) to find out more about the Rural Wheels initiative, a shared taxi scheme that provides subsidised travel for rural communities.CfIT will be launching a campaign supporting their report calling for Government to announce and fund a large-scale shared taxi project, ‘TaxiPlus’. "Rural bus provision has declined steadily over the past twenty years....

 12th June 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Berwick-upon-Tweed to find out more about the impacts of major life events on rural people and their service needs.

 27th April 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting farmers on the Duke of Westminster’s Abbeystead Estate to collect evidence for our inquiry into the challenges facing upland communities.

 16th April 2009

Sport England have unveiled a £10 million investment fund that will create sporting opportunities for people in rural areas. It's the first in a series of themed funding rounds and will open for business on 1 April 2009.

 27th February 2009