24/11/2021 - RSN Seminar: Rural Economies

Date: 24th November 2021
Subject: Rural Economies
Chair: Kerry Booth, Deputy Chief Executive, Rural Services Network
- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here
- To view the introduction from the RSN click here
- To download the Learning Outcomes from this seminar click here
- To view the Attendance and Apologies click here

Speakers:
Learning Outcomes

Examples of Good Practice/Reports/Information

Key Learning Points

Connecting Culture, Regeneration, and the Community to Attract and Retain our 16–34-year-olds

Rural co-working: New Network Spaces in the Rural Economy

  • The need for working hubs as well as cultural hubs to improve/influence rural economies.
  • Stimulate new working connections as well as sustain local social networks.
  • Need to capture high earner skills within the community and show young people that they can work in a rural area and not leave.
  • Reposition rural co-workers into the centre – need superfast broadband.
  • Different models but community led models are about community and wellbeing.
  • Research shows the shift away from London to smaller urban hubs and commuting towns.
  • iNCITE – Northumbria Centre for Innovation Regional Transformation & Entrepreneurship.
  • Blog from National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE).

Fair Levelling Up for Rural?

  • Levelling up – difficult to define so how do we know if it’s been achieved.
  • “Left behind” areas have low productivity, low earnings, low skill base and poor health.
  • RSN report with Pragmatix Advisory – bias in the metrics used towards northern, urban red-wall areas in the allocation criteria of the Levelling Up and other Funds.
  • Community Renewal Fund – is it going where it’s needed?
  • RSN survey on levelling up and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. We would encourage you to complete this survey if you have made a bid to one of the recent Government Funds, whether you were successful or not, so that we can gather views on the process to feedback to Government. This survey closes on 19th December 2021.
  • Need funding allocations to reflect cost of delivering services.
  • Resources don’t have to be the same amount – just fair and equitable.
  • Salvation Army report on Levelling Up.

Open Forum Discussion

  • Case Studies: Please send these through to us to help inform our Revitalising Rural Campaign but to also highlight to Government the impact of policy decision making.

Any Other Key Outcomes from the Seminar

RSN’s Revitalising Rural Campaign  Specific Policy Asks of the Government is for fairer distribution of national resources to rural areas and more nuanced national policies. There are 14 Chapters in the campaign; one of them looks specifically at  Rural Economies,  and Rural Town Centres and High Streets.

As new Government strategies are announced, RSN puts them through a “Rural Lens Review” which adds depth and texture to the Policy Asks. A fresh crosscut of the Revitalising document being worked on will look in more depth at younger people. It will also look at the impact of various issues on younger people and develop case studies (personal experiences) rather than dry policy discussions. One of these reviews looks at Government Place Based Funds, Build Back Better High Streets.

Who are the Rural Services Network? Video on YouTube

Analysis and Commentary pieces for Rural Services Network by Jessica Sellick, Researcher at Rose Regeneration: From Survival to Revival: How can we Regenerate our High Streets?

RSN Member Insights produced by Dan Worth, Research & Performance Analyst, RSN. Please click on the link to access the Economy Insights.

Attendance

Full Name

Organisation

Bethan Aldridge

Rural Services Network

Cllr Chris Allen

Burnham and Highbridge Town Council

Cllr Giles Archibald

South Lakeland District Council

James Armstrong

Northumberland County Council

Liz Barnard

West Suffolk Council

Cllr Ann Bean

New Alresford Town Council

Mandie Berry

North Somerset Council

Graham Biggs MBE

Rural Services Network

Kerry Booth

Rural Services Network

Professor Gary Bosworth

Northumbria University

Mark Brownbill

Devon Communities Together

Dr Steve Capes

Derbyshire Dales District Council

Cllr Stephen Clarke

West Northamptonshire Council

Abi Culley

Warwickshire County Council

Lois Dale

Shropshire Council

Cllr Fran Davis

West Chiltington Parish Council

Cllr James Deane

Petersfield Town Council

Cllr Cynthia Dereli

Burscough Town Council

Dr Jane Deville

University of Lincoln

Marina Di Salvatore

West Lindsey District Council

Richard Dowson

Raising Aspirations Empowering Change Ltd

Gemma Finnegan

Cornwall Rural Community Charity

Louise Flavell

Braintree District Council

Anna Fountain

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Rachael Fullwood

Lincolnshire Rural HA Ltd

Cllr Penelope Gimes

Minster Parish Council

Cllr Susan Glossop

West Suffolk Council

Cllr Jan Goffey

Okehampton Town Council

Martin Gorringe

Defra

Alan Gray

North Kesteven District Council

Carol Grey

Penrith Town Council

David Hall

Northumberland County Council

Clare Harding

West Suffolk Council

Jonathan Harris

Cumbria County Council

Helen Harris

Leicestershire County Council

Neil Hawke

South Hams & West Devon Councils

Nicola Healy

Babergh & Mid Suffolk District Councils

Lizzi Hearn

CPRE

Beth Heritage

Wealden District Council

Chris Hill

Shropshire Council

Claire Holt

Durham County Council

Dan James

Exmoor National Park Authority

Matt Jones

Suffolk County Council

Terry Jordan

Wisbech Town Council

Cllr Patrick Kimber

West Devon Borough Council

Chris Kirkwood

YMCA Lincolnshire

Daniel Larkin

Lincolnshire County Council

Tom Lawrence

TRL Insight (& Pragmatix Advisory)

Cllr Simon Leney

Heathfield and Waldron Parish Council

Greg Macdonald

Eden District Council

Simon Matthews

Rural West Sussex Partnership

Sean McGrath

Lancashire County Council

Ken Miles

North Devon Council

Nic Millington

Rural Media

Adam Milner

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Stacey Muir

Midlands Connect

Caitlin Murray

Cornwall Council

Bobbie Preston

SP Energy Networks

Natalie Querol

Arts Council

Steve Robson

Northumberland County Council

David Rodda MBE

Cornwall Council

Evonne Rogers

North Kesteven District Council

Melanie Sealey

Devon County Council

Paul Shevlin

Craven District Council

Nicola Simmons

Reed in Partnership

Frances Simpson

New Alresford Town Council

Emma Smith

Shropshire Council

Emma-Jane Snowden

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Katherine Stanley

West Northamptonshire Council

Cllr Vivienne Stock-Williams

Somerset West & Taunton Council

Rebecca Tomlin

Harborough District Council

David Trevelyan

Forest of Dean District Council

Nadine Trout

Rural Services Network

Cllr Richard van Dulken

Braintree District Council

Beverley Vasey

Cambridgeshire ACRE

Cllr Sarah Wakefield

Somerset West & Taunton Council

Andrea Wallace

Lancaster City Council

Sarah Welfare

Reed in Partnership

Cllr Amy Wheelton

South Derbyshire District Council

Cllr Mark Whittington

Lincolnshire County Council

Ian Whittle

Reed in Partnership

Cllr Ryan Wills

Bath & North East Somerset Council

Dr Lavinia Wilson-Youlden

University of Northumbria

Cllr Dr Stuart Withington

Great Dunmow Town Council

Emma Wray

Wealden District Council

Apologies

Full Name

Organisation

Roger Allonby

Herefordshire Council

Cllr Philip Atkins OBE

Staffordshire County Council

David Bartlett

Ventnor Town Council

Cllr Owen Bierley

West Lindsey District Council

Cllr Amanda Brown

Great Dunmow Town Council

Cllr Gwilym Butler

Shropshire Council

Fiona Capewell

Isle of Wight Council

Kieran Carr

Cambridgeshire ACRE

Olivia Carr

Cambridgeshire ACRE

Josyanne Clarke

North Somerset Council

Amy Cobbett

NFU

Jon Collins

Derby College

Matthew Collinson

North Lincolnshire Council

Nora Corkery

Devon Communities Together

Bill Cullen

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council

Cllr Donald Davies

North Somerset Council

Cllr Janet Duncton

West Sussex County Council

Andrea Durn

Wotton Under Edge Town Council

Wayne Dutton

South Staffordshire Council

Shannon English

East Suffolk Council

Paul Fellows

North York Moors National Park Authority

Jack Freeman

Northumberland County Council

Laura Gaudion

Isle of Wight Council

Gerry Gilmurray

SP Energy Networks

Cllr Richard Good

Richmondshire District Council

Kinga Grabarczyk

Sedgemoor District Council

Andy Haime

Lincolnshire Rural HA Ltd

Kathryn Hampson

West Sussex County Council

Nik Harwood

Young Somerset

Cllr Lee Hatcher

Cranbrook & Sissinghurst Parish Council

Alison Hayward

East Devon District Council

Cllr Elizabeth Hendry

Downham Market Town Council

Cllr Robert Heseltine

North Yorkshire County Council

Cllr Claire Hodson

Torridge District Council

Sally Igra

New Forest District Council

Gavin Iredale

Reed in Partnership

Wendy Jackson

Forest of Dean District Council

Liz Johnson-Idan

Chard Town Council

Sarah Jones

Shropshire Council

Will Jones

Dartmoor National Park Authority

Cllr Julie Jones-Evans

Isle of Wight Council

Katie Judge

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Ellen King

West Lindsey District Council

Louise Kite

Lancashire County Council

Simon Lynch

Outside the Box

Aanchal Mann

National Federation of Women's Institutes

Martyne Manning

Stafford Borough Council

Maureen Margrie

Cirencester Housing

Toby Matthews

Norfolk County Council

Cllr Terence Moore

Great Dunmow Town Council

Jane Mordue

Citizens Advice

Yvonne Morland

Tandridge District Council

Fay Morris

SP Energy Networks

Cllr Jonathan Noble

Boston Borough Council

Keli Nolan-Lyons

Tenterden Town Council

Emma Phillips

West Oxfordshire District Council

Pam Posnett

Leicestershire County Council

Sylvia Pringle

Northumberland County Council

Norman Proudfoot

Harborough District Council

Nicola Radford

Lincolnshire County Council

Julia Raven

South Northamptonshire Council

Shirley Reynolds

The Gorge Parish Council

Janice Rose

Northumberland County Council

Cllr Jeremy Savage

South Norfolk Council and Broadland District Council

Kay Sentence

Collaborative Housing

Cllr Richard Sherras

Ribble Valley Borough Council

Ian Sherriff

Univerity of Plymouth

Clair Shields

North York Moors National Park Authority

Cllr Ron Simpson

Uppingham Town Council

Tim Slaney

South Downs National Park Authority

Mandy Smith

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils

Cllr Margaret Squires

Mid Devon District Council

Cllr Angela Standing

Arundel Town Council

Cllr Roger Sterry

Cinderford Town Council

Alan Sutton

Chichester District Council

Cllr Michael Sutton

Westbury Town Council

Cllr Linda Taylor

Cornwall Council

Amy Thomas

Lincolnshire County Council

Cllr Michael Thompson

St Austell Town Council

Judith Thompson

Saffron Walden Town Council

Joanne Thornber

Forum of Private Business

Andy Tordoff

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Steve Trotter

Lechlade on Thames Town Council

Anna Warner

Reed in Partnership

Nick Webster

Herefordshire Council

Nic Wells

St Ives Town Council

David Wells

Wrekin Housing Group

Susan White

Richmondshire District Council

Liz Wilkin

Cornwall Rural Community Charity

Helen Wright

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

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