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• Vision 2020 for Rural Britain - website launches!

  Take a look at the incredible collection of contributions made by Skipton delegates on the new website just launched.

  The contributions were insightful, imaginative, heartening and innovative.  We posted them on the site for people to read through.  There are over 230 in total, BUT we want more!

  Please circulate the website address to colleagues and friends so that they can provide their ‘vision’ for rural Britain.

  http://2020vision.ruralnet.org.uk/

  Simon commented:
  “We want to do this collectively because many heads are better than one or two - and there is a great deal of significance to something that has been created by hundreds of people. Visions can inspire and motivate - and they can inform policy and influence strategy. This is an opportunity for people to contribute to a collective vision for rural Britain - something quite unique and special.”>

• Rural Britain - a 2020 Vision

  This exciting and innovative first day main plenary session, hosted by Simon Berry, CEO ruralnet|uk created a bit of a stir.  We weren’t expecting to be writing our thoughts and comments, yet some fantastic ideas and personal visions emerged from a huge number of people. Simon has written his own thoughts on this and other aspects of the convention here.

  Take a look at some of the contributions below:

  

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• Making the most of technology workshop

  Colin Harrison took delegates through a range of ways ICT can help rural communities.

  After some basic introductions to what (read more...)

• Rural Transport

  Something I think is vital for the functioning of rural communities is an effective rural public transport network. Buses feeding into railway hubs for example.

  One of the ways this is happening in rural North Yorkshire is through the use of the community minibus. Today delegates at the conference are able to sample this method of transport as one of the vehicles from the Little Red Bus network is here to ferry people between Skipton Railway Station and the hotel.

  Here it is waiting to leave the station..

• Futurechoices Live: Terry Hodgkinson gives the regional perspective from Yorkshire Forward

  Terry Hodgkinson, Chair of Yorkshire Forward, the local regional development agency gave an enthusiastic (read more...)>