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How can we help you?

Rural Communities
Local Authority, Regional Assembly or Government Office


Rural Communities:

Does your community/organisation have problems accessing vital services such as – Doctors, supermarkets, sports clubs, employment, education etc?

Are you looking for information on good practice?

Do you need information on how to fund transport and access projects?

Could your community benefit from a transport and access needs survey? We can help identify need.

Does your organisation have a project in mind and requires independent advice?

Do you need help or advice in setting up a community shop/pub/Post Office?

If you have answered yes to any of the above then please contact RCCE’s Rural Transport and Access Adviser on 0844 4773938

Local Authority, Regional Assembly or Government Office

Linking Communities can help:

• maintain local knowledge, contacts and networks
• deliver projects meeting local needs
• Strategic Work – influence the Local Transport Plan and Local Area Agreement while working with Local Strategic Partnerships
• Project Work – develop action plans and making projects happen
• Consultation Work – Independent bus surveys and community consultations
• Offer independent advice to local people on transport and access options
• Build up Rural Expertise – there is now a regional wide network of transport and access officers with invaluable knowledge
• Help communities form partnerships with other agencies and across parish district and county boundaries to progress ideas and projects
• Share good practice and providing advice on funding streams. (RCCE website, the Link and the Oyster)
• Seek, explore and test innovative forms of service delivery
• Identify funding streams and linking communities/ organisations to these