Archive of: Rural communities

Has your #rural community pulled together this year?

We are working with a major broadcaster to gather stories of inspiring rural community projects where residents have helped each other through the pandemic.

Danny Kruger’s Report – a welcome rethink of civil society and localism

Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) welcomes the report published today by Devizes MP, Danny Kruger which makes a series of proposals to government for sustaining the community spirit seen during the coronavirus pandemic.

Supply of affordable homes in the countryside threatened

Over two thirds of rural communities in England may not be able to secure any new affordable houses in the future, a coalition of organisations, led by Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), has warned.

Lifting Covid-19 restrictions in rural areas – some cursory thoughts

Phillip Vincent, ACRE’s Public Relations and Communications Manager, outlines some cursory thoughts on what lifting the Covid-19 restrictions means for rural communities across England.

Volunteers' Week 2018

ACRE is proud to be supporting Volunteers’ Week from 1 - 7 June 2018. It is an annual celebration of the contribution that millions of volunteers across the UK make to their communities.

Delivering services to rural communities (guest post from Zurich Municipal)

Guest blog for #VillageHallsWeek from Zurich Municipal which looks at two village halls in Cumbria.

Start preparing your hall to get online during #VillageHallsWeek (guest post from Plymouth University)

Dr. Katherine Willis from Plymouth University has been at the forefront of a ‘Digital Neighbourhoods’ project and tells us that rural communities can benefit from digital access in their community venue, in order to overcome digital divides and enable local people to participate more actively in society.

Getting to know the National Rural Touring Forum

The National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) is one of those wonderful under the radar organisations that helps keep rural Britain thriving. Here’s an introduction from their Chair, Tom Speight.

"A teapot as big as the moon" by Ian McMillan

As part of #VillageHallsWeek celebrations, poet Ian McMillan has written a poem call ‘A teapot as big as the moon’. The poem has been written thanks to the support of the National Rural Touring Forum for #VillageHallsWeek.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way: rural communities use all manner of spaces to create social hubs (Guest post by the Plunkett Foundation)

More and more rural communities across the UK are pulling together to create community hubs and provide additional services in existing community buildings.