UPDATED!! The event may be over in Skipton but we have pulled together all the very best bits from Future Choices - Live & Local and created a brand new website to accommodate it all!

Go to www.futurechoices.ruralnet.org.uk to catch up with everything online now.

You will find videos from all the plenary sessions - and includes a video interview with Matthew Taylor MP talking about his recent review on how land use and planning can better support rural business and deliver affordable housing .  Find out how ruralnet|uk Chief Executive Simon Berry collected over 230 ‘Visions’ from delegates*, in just eight minutes, as well as summaries from all the workshops and study tours.   We also chatted with the delegates to find out what they thought of workshops, as well as catching a few moments with some of the key speakers, including Rhona Pringle Renaissance Market Town Manager at Yorkshire Forward.

* UPDATE! The collective vision for rural Britain in 2020 is now available online - all contributions from the event in Skipton are available and you can post your own vision or simply post your thoughts on what you think rural Britain will look like in 2020.  Please visit the website here.

ruralnet|uk, in association with a number of local public and private agencies has launched an initiative for the residents of Central rural Warwickshire. The goal is draw upon £1.5m funding from a European sponsored initiative known as the LEADER project. The service enables anyone to submit their ideas and help shape the application. Ideas submitted so far include a community orchard project, a rural paparazzi competition and community bike sharing initiatives amongst others.

CENTRAL WARWICKSHIRE VILLAGES LEADER PROJECT

In Central Warwickshire have just launched a service which we hope will enable communities to participate
with the development of their LEADER programme better than ever before.

http://www.warwickshireleader.net is a web-based tool open to everyone and designed to provide an online channel for the engagement of the community in the collaborative development of the LDS (Local Delivery Strategy). All visitors can read the content and comment anonymously. Visitors can also register and have their comments attributed or initiate their own ideas.

At its core the site is designed to move us from the approved `Expression of Interest’ to the LDS which will trigger the relaese of the funding in an open and transparent way.

The site will run in parallel with more traditional forms of engagement, village meetings, village visits etc and these will be reported on the site too for those unable to attend. It supports all media: text, video, audio and all of these will be used to capture the content of face to face activities.

As new ideas are submitted they are tagged with labels such as the Ward they would apply to, how much funding maybe required, whether its a community / voluntary type project etc and this builds a picture directly from the participants which will feed directly into the LDS and business case. We also intend to post the LDS monthly on the site for visitors to check on the progress of the application.

collaborate|2007 brought together ruralnet|uk’s partners past, present and future at a unique event. A day packed with workshops and networking opportunities, including the annual net:gain awards

Below are the presentations and photos from the event.

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View the presentation above (animations will be missing), or go to the SlideShare site and download the original PowerPoint presentation.

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View the presentation above (animations will be missing), or go to the SlideShare site and download the original PowerPoint presentation.

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View the presentation above (animations will be missing), or go to the SlideShare site and download the original PowerPoint presentation.

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View the presentation above (animations will be missing), or go to the SlideShare site and download the original PowerPoint presentation.

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View the presentation above (animations will be missing), or go to the SlideShare site and download the original PowerPoint presentation.