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 

We're pleased the Government has recognised the important social and economic role of post offices...

Topics: rural-services access-to-services post-offices 

This project helps the Rural Advocate, Rev. Dr. Stuart Burgess, keep in touch with issues affecting rural communities, businesses and individuals, particularly those suffering disadvantage.

Topics: rural-advocate young-people commission fuel-poverty rural-governance transport rural-places major-life-events economic-wellbeing rural-economies 

Details of some of our work on the future of rural post offices...

Topics: post-offices financial-inclusion rural-services access-to-services post-offices rural-services access-to-services crime-and-policing best-practice 

This work is evaluating the experience of recent neighbourhood policing reforms within rural communities, highlighting policy advice emerging from the research as well as good practice examples.

Topics: rural-governance rural-services access-to-services post-offices crime-and-policing crime-and-policing best-practice local-government 

We've been investigating whether the benefits from increased expenditure and investment in the NHS have reached people in rural England in an equitable way, in proportion to their needs and expectations...

Topics: access-to-services rural-services dental-services care-and-support healthcare post-offices crime-and-policing major-life-events rural-advocate best-practice