Support and Advice
Supportive organisationsLinks to useful websites and resources
Individuals and organisations which offer support and information to rural communities
GMTF's Board of Directors are all volunteers in their own rural towns and large parishes with a wealth of knowledge and expertise to share. Please feel free to contact them by emailing info@glosmtf.org.uk or come along to the next Forum Networking event.
Supportive organisations include:
Action for Market Towns www.towns.org.uk
Commission for Rural Communities www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council www.grcc.org.uk
Gloucestershire First www.glosfirst.co.uk
Gloucestershire County Council www.gloucestershire.gov.uk
Local Rural Authorities:
Cotswold District www.cotswold.gov.uk
Forest of Dean District www.fdean.gov.uk
Stroud District www.stroud.gov.uk
Tewkesbury Borough www.tewkesbury.gov.uk
South West Market and Coastal Towns Network www.swmctn.com - the
Forum is one of the founding members of the South West Market and Coastal Towns Network launched in July 2008. The Network aims to promote the case of Market and Coastal Towns in the region and beyond and organise the sharing of good practice and communication across the region. An annual regional conference to highlight good practice is also being considered.
South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) www.southwestrda.org
Alan Titcombe, South West RDA's community facilitator for Gloucestershire, says: "The Forum offers us at the RDA an extremely cost effective and reliable method of keeping in contact with the views of people living in the rural communities. The Forum has also worked hard to develop links with the local authorities in Gloucestershire who, as a result, are now looking to the Forum to help them work more closely to meet the needs of their rural communities."
Links to
useful websites and resources
July 2010: A new resource called 100 Ways to
Help the High Street brings together a range
of successful schemes which, if implemented in the
right place at the right time, can have a positive
affect for town centres -
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=20125065