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 [...]

Hear from Catherine Hammant, Chair of Action for Market Towns

Catherine spoke on day 1 of the event and if you were unable to attend the session, you can watch the video below:

Andy Tordoff - Investing in Yorkshire Spirit

Andy Tordoff, Head of Rural Renaissance at Yorkshire Forward, spoke on day 1 of the event in Skipton Town Hall - if you missed him, you can watch him again below - his presentation is available below also:

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Question and answer session with Matthew Taylor

Here is Matthew Taylor in conversation with Simon Berry about Matthew’s recent report on nurturing a living and working countryside. The conversation took place on 23/9/08 in Matthew’s Westminster office.  The interview was shown to the Future Choice - Live & Local delegates as a Day 1 plenary session.
An interview with Matthew Taylor from ruralnetuk [...]

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 [...]

First day presentations (Video)

On the first day of the conference at Skipton Town Hall we had series of excellent presentations, caught here on video

Futurechoices Live: Simon Berry crowdsources a vision for rural Britain in 2020

Simon Berry, CEO of ruralnet|uk made a re-appearance in an experiment to exploit the (considerable) genius in the network that was present in Skipton today.
He wanted to use the experience, knowledge and imagination of those present to capture an aspirational vision of what rural Britain might/should/could be like in 2020. In a similar way to [...]

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 appraisal of the work they are doing to help local communities and businesses exploit their own  economic assets to bring opportunity and wealth to all.
Despite these uncertain times, he went on to say, the region is more prosperous than ever but [...]