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PRESENTATIONS

• Ian Cass, Managing Director, Forum of Private Business, “The Importance of Micro Businesses to the Rural Economy”

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  Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Professor of Planning, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, “Rural Poverty Today: the policy challenges”

• Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network, “Levelling up the Rural Economy”

SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:

Ian Cass, Managing Director, Forum of Private Business
https://www.fpb.org/

Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Professor of Planning, Newcastle University
https://theconversation.com/profiles/mark-shucksmith-177805 

Kerry Booth, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/our-team/kerry-booth/

USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

RSN Fair Funding Campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/page/fairer-funding-campaign  

RSN Levelling Up Analysis:
Levelling Up Analysis - Rural Services Network (rsnonline.org.uk)

Pragmatix Advisory research, Rural as a region: the hidden challenge for Levelling Up:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-as-a-region-the-hidden-challenge-for-levelling-up.pdf

Areas benefitting from levelling up funding:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/which-areas-have-benefited-from-the-levelling-up-fund/

Revitalising Rural: Realising the Vision campaign:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/revitalising-rural

Rural Lens reviews on government policies and strategies, including Levelling Up:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-lens

Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg

USEFUL LINKS SHARED BY DELEGATES

National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise - Resilient rural business:
https://nicre.co.uk/news/2022/january/resilient-rural-businesses-innovate-and-diversify-during-covid/

How to sign up free of charge to the Micro Business Alliance:
https://themicrobizalliance.org.uk/

Plunkett Community Pubs – A Better Form of Business:
https://plunkett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021-1.pdf

South Cambridgeshire Market Toolkit:
https://www.scambs.gov.uk/business/south-cambridgeshire-markets/market-toolkit/

Community Right to Buy:
https://plunkett.co.uk/plunkett-foundation-calls-for-a-uk-wide-community-right-to-buy/

Rural Poverty Today - Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain:
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rural-poverty-today

Rural Lives Research Project:
https://www.rurallives.co.uk/

Kovia Consulting Rural Cost of Living research:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-cost-of-living.pdf

House of Lords Rural Economy Committee Report: Time for a Strategy for the Rural Economy:
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/lln-2019-0110/

Homelessness In the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/chronic-increase-of-hidden-homelessness-in-the-countryside-fuelled-by-cost-of-living-crisis-ground-breaking-report-shows

Jab, jab, jab right hook book on social media: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7UuC3Z9D5M

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

The 106 Bus Partnership, Cumbria – connecting rural communities:
http://106bus.co.uk/

Pub is the Hub:
https://www.pubisthehub.org.uk/

National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise – Research Project on Rural Co-Working:
https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2023/march/exploring-co-working-potential-for-rural-pubs/

Supporting the visitor economy in South Cambridgeshire:
https://visitsouthcambs.co.uk/

Understanding Society Study:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/

Chris Whitty Report on Health in Coastal Communities:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005217/cmo-annual_report-2021-health-in-coastal-communities-summary-and-recommendations-accessible.pdf

National Centre for Rural Health and Care – Parliamentary Inquiry Report on Rural Health:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/RuralHealthandCareAPPGInquiryRep.pdf