Cycling to work and back saves just under half kilo of CO² per mile and employees are being encouraged to take to the pedals through Bike-to-work scheme.

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ruralnet|uk Chief Executive Simon Berry has successfully completed his Land’s End to John O’Groats bike ride, following over 100 hours in the saddle and travelling 1171 miles.

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Participation Bike Ride from Lands End to John O’Groats.
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ruralnet staff and trustees were joined by friends and family to enjoy an evening of fun, fine food, fireworks…and flag waving. More detail »

ruralnet|uk employee, David Head, raises mountain of money for Mencap on Vietnam trek.

David returned this week from Vietnam following a 10 day fundraising trip to one of the world’s most fascinating countries; treking through the Sapa region, an area surrounded by soaring mountains, cloaked by dense misty forests.

A total of £2750 was raised by David for the charity Mencap through book sales, organised treasure hunts, giving talks, sponsored walk of Hadrians Wall, Easter Egg raffle and through donations made on the JustGiving.com website.
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ruralnet|uk’s Business Development Manager, Jane Berry, returned this week from China, following an invitation to join a delegation of UK Social Entrepreneurs. The trip was organised by Global Links Initiative (GLI) and was supported by the British Consulate-General, Shanghai. Three leading Social Entrepreneurs were selected to represent different approaches to UK Social Enterprise and different target groups. With the emerging third sector in China developing fast, the visit created enormous interest and culminated in seminars, attended by not-for-profits (NPOs), national and local government representatives and the media, and was hosted by the British Council China NPO Network in Beijing, and the YMCA in Shanghai.

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ruralnet|uk’s Business Development Manager was part of a 3-person delegation to China organised by the Global Links Initiative for the exchange of knowledge and experience between social entrepreneurs from both countries.

The National Rural Enterprise Centre (NREC), currently a department of the RASE (Royal Agricultural Society of England), is to break away and form its own independent charity called ruralnet|uk.

“For twelve years the RASE has nurtured and grown the NREC to the stage where it is now a viable and thriving operation in its own right,” says RASE chief executive Mike Calvert. “With the creation of the new rural Ministry DEFRA, and with a shift of political and policy focus from agricultural production to the wider rural economy the time has never been better for this move.”

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