This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Rural sustainability page for a topic overview.
Campaigns
Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is a registered charity with over 60,000 members and supporters. CPRE campaigns for a "sustainable future" for the English countryside. They state it is "a vital but undervalued environmental, economic and social asset to the nation." They aim to "highlight threats and promote positive solutions." They campaign using their own research to lobby the public and all levels of government. W
Resources
- Community Shops Online
- Plunkett Co-operative Pubs Online
- Plunkett Foundation, helps rural communities in the UK to take control of the issues affecting them through community ownership. W
- Pub Is The Hub
- Saving Pubs, campaigning resources from CAMRA, Campaign for Real Ale
- Village SOS, support network for community businesses
Maps
CPRE maps showing that 55 per cent of England’s countryside could be at increased risk as a consequence of the Government’s reforms of the planning system: Protecting open countryside
See also
- Rural sustainability
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), charity that acts as the national organisation for thirty-eight Rural Community Councils across England. W
- Rural Shops Alliance
- Village car-share, sister site of liftshare.com
References
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