MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have highlighted the impact poor broadband and mobile continues to have on rural communities and businesses.
Free-to-use ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have been disappearing from rural communities and small towns for some time, along with bank branches moving out.
Big Switch and Save is a collective energy switching scheme which offers residents the chance to save money on their energy bills. In West Norfolk it’s led by CAN and King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council.
Heating oil prices have risen dramatically – but CAN’s collective heating oil buying scheme secured an impressively low price for our members in mid-September.
Social Prescribing is a way of GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals referring people to a range of non-clinical services. People’s health is determined by a range of social, economic and environmental factors and social prescribing supports individuals in taking greater control of their own health.
The government has responded less than positively to many of the well-reasoned recommendations made in the House of Lords’ recent report on rural strategies, according to national charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE).
Successive governments have underrated the contribution the rural economy can make to the nation’s prosperity and wellbeing, according to a major new report from the House of Lords.
Big Switch and Save is a Norfolk-wide collective energy switching scheme which offers people the chance to save money on their electricity and gas bills.
Around 92% of locations across Norfolk can receive fast broadband. That’s around 24 Mbps. And Better Broadband for Norfolk is working hard to increase that figure. You can check broadband availability in your area at www.betterbroadbandnorfolk.co.uk. That’s if you can get broadband in the first place of course…
