Rural Community Gateway

Ruralnet|uk have invested in the design of a national programme to support communities who are working collectively to reduce their carbon footprint. We want to support communities on the leading edge who know a lot more about the practicalities than we do, and want to help communities who have just started. We also want to raise awareness amongst others who haven’t even thought about this approach before.

We will do this using tried and tested knowledge transfer and community development techniques. We want to be able to pay experienced practitioners in one community to help less experienced ones elsewhere. We want to use both online techniques and face-to-face visits and events. We want to draw out the experience that exists and spread it around.

We are at the stage where we need financial and moral support for this initiative. We want to attract funding partners from the public, private and social sectors and we’d like to launch the initiative at our annual conference on 10th October 2007, at The Belfry in the West Midlands.

For further information on the RCCN please visit http://www.ruralaction.org.uk/.

To evidence the need for this initiative we are currently undertaking research into where groups are located, what their experiences have been, how easy difficult it has been to access funding/support/advice.  Please contact Samantha Adams at s.adams@ruralnet.org.uk.