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Essex Halls celebrate National Village Halls Week!

Essex Halls celebrate National Village Halls Week! Village hall and community building trustees across Essex will be dedicating events being held in t...

2019 Essex Village of the Year Competition – Open for Entries!

The search is on for the 2019 Essex Village of the Year. This popular annual competition run by RCCE, with the support of sponsors Essex & Suffolk Wat...

Office closure over Christmas/New Year

The RCCE office is closed from 1pm, Friday 21st December 2018 and will re-open at 9am on Wednesday 2nd January 2019.

Essex Village of the Year 2019 Competition

We are launching the 2019 competition earlier than usual in order to give villages more time to prepare and submit their entries.

Winners Announced - Harvest Photograph Challenge

Congratulations to Growing Communities joint winners: Rickling C of E Primary School - Saffron Walden St Nicholas C of E Primary School - Tillin...

Growing Communities Healthy Packed Lunch Plot Competition Returns!

Growing Communities invites all children in primary schools and special schools of Essex to take part in designing a healthy kitchen garden plot and c...

RCCE Annual Review 2017/18

RCCE Annual Review 2017/18. Our latest annual review shows how we've supported people and places in rural Essex over the past year.

Essex Village of the Year & Best Kept Churchyard Competitions

By way of a thank you to all our dedicated volunteer competition judges, RCCE organised an afternoon at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, near Maldon i...

Essex Police Rural Crime Advice Day

ESSEX COUNTY HARVEST SERVICE

All are welcome! Chelmsford Cathedral 30th September 2018 at 3:30pm. The National Harvest Torch will be coming to Chelmsford Cathedral. Followed by a...

Priti Patel MP visits RCCE

Priti Patel, MP for Witham, paid a visit to RCCE recently to hear about their projects and to discuss support for rural communities.

2018 Village Halls & Community Buildings Conference

The RCCE Village Halls Community Buildings Conference will be held on Saturday 13th October 2018 at Peldon Wigboroughs Community Hall.

Affordable Rural Housing in Essex

It can take several years to bring an affordable rural housing scheme to the stage of an official opening. So it is always exciting when an invite arr...

Essex Village of the Year Competition 2018 -Results

Winnners and runners up of the Essex Village of the Year Competition received their prizes at the RCCE's.

Healthy Packed Lunch Plot Winners Planting Days Update!

The winning primary schools planting day took place at Notley Green Primary School, an exuberant morning was spent with class 4 (ages 8-9 years) where...

Another Great Event at Essex Schools Food & Farming Day

The 11th Essex Schools Food & Farming Day at Writtle University College was a great success, with over 3000 school children finding out where their fo...

Community Agents Essex Vacancies

Community Agents Essex is seeking to recruit 3 Community Agents to work in the Chelmsford, Tendring and South of Colchester areas. For more details v...

Essex Village of the Year Competition 2018

There is still time to enter RCCE's Essex Village of the Year 2018 Competition! RCCE knows that in villages of all sizes throughout Essex, local peop...