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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.
Graham Russell, new Director of Practice at the Commission for Rural Communities, will open the ruralnet|2007 conference, taking place this year at The Belfry on 10-11 October.
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2007 - ongoing
Theme: Rural Futures - Who Cares?
Date: 10th-11th October 2007
Venue: The Belfry, West Midlands
Details: The seventh annual ruralnet|uk conference. A two-day event once again consisting of workshops, plenary sessions, networking, and debate, over key issues affecting our rural communities. This year we consider who should take responsibility for “doing” rather than “planning to do” in rural areas, with particular emphasis on carbon emission reduction and collective action. Keynote speaker (provisional): Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office For details as they unfold please visit the conference website here.
Major Rural Development Conference Returns to the West Midlands
ruralnet|uk and Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, are working together to deliver ruralnet|2007, our major 2-day conference in October this year.
The closing session of the ruralnet|2006 conference once again demonstrated the innovative nature of this event.
Professor Michael Dower, University of Gloucestershire and Gordon Morris, a freelance writer and researcher took on the role of council for defence and prosecution respectively. In a 40 minute court room drama they eloquently argued a case where rural regeneration agencies were charged with:”Exaggerating the issue of rural deprivation”.
Simon Hebditch, CEO of Capacitybuilders, will address the Rural Development Conference, ruralnet|2006, in Nottinghamshire on 11 October.
As opening keynote speaker at this important annual event, Simon will be outlining his vision for how Capacitybuilders will be supporting the rural voluntary sector. In the light of the recent review of the National Hubs, this plenary session is expected to be of particular interest to the media and delegates alike.
‘Exploiting Your Rural Capital - New Perspectives on Rural Assets’ will be the theme for ruralnet|2006.
Hosted by rural regeneration charity, ruralnet|uk, the annual conference is to be held in the East Midlands on 11-12 October, with support from East Midlands Development Agency (emda). The event will debate the importance of community, as well as economic resources for sustainability and social inclusion.
This year’s supplement: ‘Building Capitals for Communities’ will focus on the experiences of market towns in the East Midlands as the foundation for rural regeneration.
Theme: ‘Exploiting Your Rural Capital - New Perspectives on Rural Assets’ with ‘Building Capitals for Communities’ Supplement
Date: 11th-12th October 2006
Location: Newark, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Details: The sixth annual ruralnet|uk conference. The two-day event once again consisted of workshops, plenary sessions, networking, and debate, over the key issues affecting our rural communities.
Keynote speaker: Simon Hebditch, CEO, Capacitybuilders and Jogn Grimshaw, CEO, Sustrans
For details please see www.ruralnetuk.org/conference
2005
The ruralnet|2005 conference, “Expanding Contracting - How to Thrive in the New Contract Culture” was held on 12-13 October 2005 in Bramhope, Yorkshire. This two-day event consisted of workshops, plenary sessions, networking, and debate, exploring how the success of the community and voluntary sector in the delivery of services to vulnerable people, communities and businesses is now recognised not only by government, but at all levels. The keynote speaker was Geraldine Peacock, Chair of the Charity Commission. There was a morning supplement on the Post Office – a Case Study in Positive Rural Action.
Link: www.ruralnetuk.org/conference/
