Simon Berry talks to Andy Tordoff

Andy Tordoff is Head of Rural Renaissance at Yorkshire Forward.  He gave an engaging plenary session talk about the issues facing rural areas of Yorkshire on day one of the event (watch this again here).
Simon Berry, CEO of ruralnet|uk caught up with him after the session to talk in a bit more detail about what [...]

Catch up with John Craven at Future Choices - Live & Local

John Craven spoke enthusiastically about the opportunities and threats for market towns, rural communities and the countryside. We heard from John on day 1 of the event, when he also launched AMT’s new Towns Alive programme.
Watch his speech here:

And we caught up with him after the session to ask him some questions, take [...]

Rhona Pringle on Resilient Market Towns

Rhona Pringle is Renaissance Market Towns Programme Manager at Yorkshire Forward.
Rhona delivered the first day study tour ‘Snapshot of Yorkshire and Humber Market Town Renaissance’ and spoke at a second day plenary session which examined ‘Market Towns for the Future’.
Hear what Rhona had to say about the opportunities and challenges for market towns, when we [...]

Local Energy workshop

Thank you to everyone who attended that Local Energy workshop on Day 2 in the ‘Nightclub’ at the Rendezvous’. (Please scroll down for interviews).
We heard from three interesting and inspiring examples of community energy projects:
Ross Weddle from CoRE
Adam Kennerley from Lightfoot Enterprises
Colin Mather from Esk Energy Group Ltd
Sam Adams spoke about how ruralnet|uk are working [...]

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 ICT is all about the workshop covered digital communications, mobile phones, blogging and remote working.
To tie some of this together the video clip below that was taken on a mobile phone shows Colin doing a live [...]