Rural Community Gateway

RURAL UPDATE: ISSUE 106
19 October 2007
Catch up with the latest news from the Rural Community Gateway
http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/

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EDITOR'S NOTE
The Rural Gateway user survey results are in. Thanks to all who took
part. We were delighted with the positive response and useful
comments and suggestions we received. It is great that so many of you
value the Rural Gateway. It is also good to know what you think we
could do better, and what issues you would like to see us cover.

Involving more young people with the site was suggested by more than
one person. We agree that it would be great to engage with more young
people, and we are currently developing new features which we hope
will appeal to younger people. If you work for a youth organisation,
or are a young person who would be interested in contributing to the
site, I'd love to hear from you. You can get in touch by emailing
mailto:editor@ruralgateway.org.uk.

We'd also like to follow up on a comment that suggested we do more
with rural sport and coaching. We will be looking at ways of
increasing our coverage in this area, but again if you are involved
in rural sport and would like to contribute to the Rural Gateway
please do get in touch.

It was also suggested that we could expand our events calendar to
include more community events. We are more than happy to promote
community events on the Gateway, from local gala days to amateur
dramatic plays, so please send details to mailto:editor@ruralgateway.org.uk.

There were many more valuable suggestions, but I won't go into them
all here, except to say that we hope to follow up on as many as
possible. Read more about our survey results here:
http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2025

NEWSWIRE FORMAT
If you have not received this newsletter in our new format, go to My
Newsletters and select to receive the newswires in html format.
See https://secure.ruralgateway.org.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi?page=33

SILVER SURFERS NEED YOUR HELP
The Airlie Hall Silver Surfers are the latest group to appear in our
Your Project feature. The Silver Surfers are looking for some
specific help from Rural Gateway users. The group has recently got
webcam and Skype equipment and they would like to link up with
similar groups on a Wednesday morning. If you can help, please
contact Neil Paterson at PatersonN@angus.gov.uk or call 01575 574
989.
Find out more about the Silver Surfers in their Your Project feature:
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2029

CAN YOU HELP WILDLIFE STUDENT?
Beata Kucinski, a Wildlife Conservation student at University of
Kent, got in touch with the Gateway recently. Beata is currently
working on a dissertation on the reintroduction of wolves to the Glen
Affric area. Beata has a questionnaire about the social feasibility
of the reintroduction. If you would be interested in filling out the
questionnaire please contact Beata at bk47@kent.ac.uk.
You might be also be interested in our 'Trial beaver reintroduction
proposed' article.
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2021

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Do you have experiences, ideas, knowledge and opinions you would like
to share with the Rural Gateway community? Don't forget you can tell
us what you think about a whole range of rural issues by adding
comments to our articles. So, what do you think about the
reintroduction of beavers to Scotland? Do you have something to say
about wildlife crime or the Scottish Rural Development Programme? Get
involved, and let us know.

PHOTO COMPETITION
Our September gallery is now on the site, featuring the best of that
month's submissions to our 'Living in rural Scotland' photo
competition. There were some really interesting photos submitted in
September, with wee stories behind each of our gallery entries!
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2016

EVENTS
Recently added events include a series of Showcase and Networking
events across the Highlands organised by HICCaP. And if you don't
want to miss out on the Falkland Centre for Stewardship's Big Tent
Festival 2008, you will find details of the event in our calendar.
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/information/events.html

DOCUMENTS
News of the Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) is popular on
the site at the moment. In our documents library, you will find an
SRDP Implementation Update from the Scottish Government. Other
recently added documents include a guide to watching marine wildlife
and the latest Rural Archaeology Bulletin.
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/information/documents.html

WEB OF MONTH
Don't forget to check out our web of the month theGuidlife, an online
community for rural Lanarkshire.
See http://www.theguidlife.net/
 
FUNDING NEWSWIRE
If you need to know about funding, sign up for our very popular
Funding latest newswire, produced by Sandra Hogg, our resident
funding expert. Remember to select to receive them in html format.
See https://secure.ruralgateway.org.uk/cgi-bin/profile.cgi?page=1

THANK YOU
Thanks to Nicky Donald, Maria Mackenzie, Oliver Strathbeg, Michael
Johnston, Neil Paterson and the Airlie Hall Silver Surfers, Julia
Whitaker, David McDowall, BTCV Scotland, Sheila MacIsaac and VETAID,
Patrick Vickery, Andrew Thompson and more for their recent comments
and contributions.

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TOP STORIES
International spotlight - new VETAID project
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2033

Celebrating Highland voluntary sector
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2032

Rural round up 85
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2028

Your Project - Airlie Hall Silver Surfers
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2029

Rural Gateway survey results
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2025

Rural broadband scheme announced
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2023

Trial beaver reintroduction proposed
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2021

Rural rambling 8
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2022

RSABI Foot and Mouth hardship fund
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2020

Time is right to tackle wildlife crime
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2018 

Emergency welfare scheme for light lambs
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2019

Funding latest 52
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2015

Rural Development Programme update
See http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/2017

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CONTACT US
We are always happy to hear from Rural Gateway users, so please feel
free to email editor@ruralgateway.org.uk with any comments or
suggestions.

Best wishes
Norette Ferns

Copyright 2007 Rural Community Gateway. The Rural Community Gateway
is a Scottish Government initiative, designed and developed by online
community specialists Sift with content and editorial services
provided by the Rural Communities Team of the Scottish Council for
Voluntary Organisations.

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