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PRESENTATIONS

• Kerry Booth, Chief Executive Designate, Rural Services Network “Introduction to Rural Economies”

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  Nigel Wilcock, Director, Institute of Economic Development “Delivering in Uncertain Times”

• Mel Sealey, Senior Manager, Economic Infrastructure and Strategic Intelligence, Devon County Council “Community Renewal Fund – Lessons Learned”

• Mark Sealey, Business Development Executive, Airband “Rural Broadband supporting the Rural Economy”

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• Graham Biggs MBE, Chief Executive, Rural Services Network “Rural Economy and Cost of Living Crisis”

SPEAKERS

To find out more about the speakers click on the following links:
Institute of Economic Development: https://ied.co.uk/
Devon County Council: https://www.devon.gov.uk/
Airband: https://www.airband.co.uk/

USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

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

Revitalising Rural chapters on Rural Economies:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/revitalising-rural/rural-economies.pdf

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

Rural Lens Review of the Levelling Up White Paper:
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/overarching-rural-lens-review-of-levelling-up-white-paper-published

Analysis of the Missions from the Levelling Up White Paper for each local authority in Sparse membership of RSN, you can see your local figures and comparisons at this link:
Mission 1
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-1
Mission 3
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-3
Mission 4
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-4
Mission 7
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-7
Mission 10
https://rsnonline.org.uk/levelling-up-missions-and-metrics-analysis-of-mission-10  

Analyses on economic indicators at local authority level:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/economy-insights

Analyses on learning, skills and education at a local authority level:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/learning-skills-education-insight

Analyses on travel and transport at a local authority level:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/travel-transport-insight

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

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

Cultivating Rural Growth by Pragmatix Advisory:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/cultivating-rural-growth.pdf

Levelling Up Rural Britain backbench debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRToZxp-Qg

Briefing note issued prior to the backbench debate:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/APPG/briefing-notes/briefing-note-levelling-up-debate.pdf  

Briefing note on the Rural Impacts of the Autumn Statement:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/APPG/briefing-notes/rural-fair-share-autumn-statement-nov-22.pdf

A call for action by Rural MPs ahead of the Local Government Finance Settlement:
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/APPG/briefing-notes/rural-fair-share-call-for-action-nov-22.pdf

The Coming Storm, research by Citizens Advice:
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Global/CitizensAdvice/Covd-19%20Data%20trends/The%20coming%20storm;%20Citizens%20Advice%20data%20report%20September%202021.pdf

You may be interested to find out more about some of our economy related RSN members:

National /innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, unlocking rural potential:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nicre/

Plunkett Foundation, helping rural communities through community ownership:
https://plunkett.co.uk/   

Also see 2022 Better Form of Business Reports:
https://plunkett.co.uk/reports/

Pub is the Hub, making the pub the centre of community life:
https://www.pubisthehub.org.uk/  

Forum of Private Business, making business better:
https://www.fpb.org/

Association of Convenience Stores, the voice of local shops:
https://www.acs.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/