- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

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PRESENTATIONS

• Kerry Booth, Chief Executive Designate, Rural Services Network “Introduction to Rural Town Centres, High Streets and Village Hubs”

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  Leani Haim, Planning Manager, Oneill Homer “Planning for Rural Resilience”

- Here is the link to Leani’s full report

• Chris Cowcher, Head of Policy and Communications, Plunkett Foundation “The role of community businesses in supporting rural town centres and village hubs”

Chris also provided useful links to:

- Keep it in the Community:
https://plunkett.co.uk/keep-it-in-the-community/

- Making Local Woods Work:
https://www.makinglocalwoodswork.org/

- Good Councillor Guide to Community Business:
https://plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-good-councillors-guide-to-community-business.pdf

- Assets of Community Value explained:
https://mycommunity.org.uk/what-are-assets-of-community-value-acv

• Jon Lloyd, Director, Vectos “Net Zero Transport; An Opportunity for Rural Towns and Villages”

Jon also made mention of a RTPI report and SAM framework, details of which can be found here:
https://www.rtpi.org.uk/media/9233/rtpi-net-zero-transport-january-2021.pdf

And:
https://ruralsharedmobility.eu/

SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:
Kerry Booth - https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/
Leani Haim - https://www.oneillhomer.co.uk/about
Chris Cowcher - https://plunkett.co.uk/our-team/
Jon Lloyd - https://vectos.co.uk/people/jonathan-lloyd/

USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

Work hubs:
https://www.ruralbusinesshub.com/
https://devonworkhubs.co.uk/find-your-devon-work-hub/

Banking hubs:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/trials-of-shared-banking-hubs-to-be-extended

The Cash Access Group is a part of UK Finance (the big high street banks and LINK). They use data to see where provision is needed. But individual communities can request a review:
https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/our-expertise/personal-banking/access-cash

Bank provision example in Norfolk: https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/business/barclays-holt-moving-to-venue-community-centre-9227042

Electric vehicle charging and community car sharing:
https://transportandenergy.com/2022/06/21/cenex-electric-vehicles-evs-charging-platform-derbyshire-county-council-midlands-connect/

Second homes policy:
https://gov.wales/new-package-measures-address-high-numbers-second-homes

Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign, please follow this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural

Revitalising Rural chapter on Rural Economies, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/rural-economies.pdf

Revitalising Rural chapter on Rural Town Centres and High Streets, please follow this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/rural-town-centres.pdf

Rural Lens reviews on wide range of topics and government policy, please visit the following link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens

Rural Cost of Living Crisis please visit the following link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/new-report-shows-devastating-triple-blow-pushes-rural-communities-in-a-cost-of-living-emergency

Levelling Up Research:
We've done an analysis of Mission 1 relating to productivity and pay for each local authority in Sparse membership of RSN, you can see your local figures at this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-1

Mission 3 analysis relating to travel time to nearest employment centre for each local authority in Sparse membership of RSN, you can see your local figures at this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-3

For a range of analyses that examine economic indicators at local authority level follow this link to Economy Insights:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/economy-insights

To find out more about RSN members relevant to the seminar click on the following links:

The RSN has over 200 Rural Market Towns in membership, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/rural-market-town-group

Association of Convenience Stores, supporting over 17,000 rural shops, to find out more click on this link:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-acs-the-association-of-convenience-stores

NICRE, the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-national-innovation-centre-for-rural-enterprise-nicre

Pub is the Hub, working with communities to restore vital local services, to find out more click on this link:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rsp-member-pub-is-the-hub

National Federation of Sub Postmasters, representing post office operators across the country, to find out more click on this link:
https://nfsp.org.uk/about-us/about-us

ACRE Action with Communities in Rural England work with communities to support the use of Village Halls as community hubs, to find out more click on this link: https://acre.org.uk/

SEMINAR SPONSOR

Our seminar programme is kindly sponsored by Airband, an independent internet service provider bringing high speed broadband to homes, business and industry in rural and hard-to-reach areas. To find out more and check availability visit https://www.airband.co.uk/