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 

Departmental officials visited good practice youth projects in the North East, in a two day visit...

Topics: rural-places healthcare young-people best-practice transport education homelessness housing 

One of our Board Members, Alison McLean, was joined by senior staff from the Commission and twelve good practice youth projects from across the South at a Youth Seeing is Believing event...

Topics: rural-places healthcare young-people best-practice transport education homelessness housing 

Access to services for people living and working in rural areas is a key issue. A lack of mobility can cause real hardship...

Topics: access-to-services regeneration transport rural-services rural-places rural-advocate rural-places rural-services data access-to-services 

In 2005, we undertook research to find the most effective way to disseminate best practice so that it would stick. A methodology was developed to disseminate information (solutions, research findings etc) to help change behaviour.

Topics: best-practice rural-places healthcare young-people best-practice home-working market-towns rural-economies education homelessness 

What's the future for rural communities in the context of changing demographic, environmental and land use pressures, including housing, planning and transport?

Topics: rural-places rural-proofing sustainable-communities affordable-housing planning credit-crunch recession rural-economies transport housing 

Our national inquiry into rural housing began in July 2005, in response to Government setting up the Affordable Rural Housing Commission. We wanted to make sure the views and concerns of rural people and businesses were heard and listened to by Government...

Topics: rural-places rural-services access-to-services transport affordable-housing housing