Our work on financial poverty links to our work on financial disadvantage, and builds on the findings of our disadvantage study.

Topics: rural-advocate fuel-poverty children-and-families training skills financial-inclusion disadvantage disadvantage 

Financial exclusion is a real challenge in rural areas. Financially excluded people living in rural areas are less visible and more difficult to reach than those in urban areas.

Topics: financial credit-union financial-inclusion post-offices social-exclusion financial-poverty fuel-poverty financial-inclusion state-of-the-countryside rural-economies 

In rural England two fifths of the population is over 50, a quarter over 60, and 1 in 12 over 75, and these proportions are growing. 

This demographic trend has a wide-ranging effect not...

Topics: older-people social exclusion services social-inclusion fuel-poverty housing disadvantage 

We're investigating Financial Disadvantage, examining the delivery in rural areas of one or more of the benefits/tax credits system, the National Minimum Wage and initiatives to assist with banking/credit/debt.

Topics: fuel-poverty financial-inclusion children-and-families disadvantage social-inclusion 

When the Commission was launched in March 2005, we announced that we would undertake a major baseline study on rural disadvantage...

Topics: older-people disadvantage 

When the Commission was launched in March 2005, we announced that we would undertake a major baseline study on rural disadvantage...

Topics: data disadvantage poverty older-people 

To complement and support the work of the Rural Advocate and our independent watchdog responsibilities, we have brought together survey-based information on the perceptions and priorities of rural people.

Topics: rural-insights data disadvantage rural-advocate