Rural Community Council Network
ACRE Networks - rural partnership in action
A working partnership of ACRE networks, informed by its founder member Rural Community Councils (RCCs), enables action to be taken across a wide range of issues to tackle the problems faced by people living in rural communities, small towns and villages. Rural Community Councils are county-based charities working to promote the welfare of local communities through voluntary effort and by encouraging people to help themselves. Rural services, transport, housing, schools, health and community care, village halls, poverty and self-help initiatives are all issues in which ACRE networks are actively involved and on which we can offer national, regional and local perspectives.
RCC Links
The Rural Community Council (RCC) Network is made up of 38 Rural Community Councils based in each county of England. They vary in name, for example some are known as Community Action or Community Futures, but each works to support communities in the county.
Links to founder member RCC websites:
| Community Action (Avon) | www.community-action.org.uk |
| Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity | www.bedsrcc.org.uk |
| Community Council for Berkshire | www.ccberks.org.uk |
| Buckinghamshire Community Action | www.bucks-comm-action.org.uk |
| Cambridgeshire ACRE | www.cambsacre.org.uk |
| Cheshire Community Council | www.cheshirecc.org.uk |
| Cornwall RCC | www.cornwallrcc.co.uk |
| Voluntary Action Cumbria | www.ruralcumbria.org.uk |
| Derbyshire RCC | www.derbysrcc.org.uk |
| Community Council of Devon | www.devonrcc.org.uk |
| Dorset Community Action | www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk |
| Durham RCC | www.durhamrcc.org.uk |
| Rural Community Council of Essex | www.essexrcc.org.uk |
| Gloucestershire RCC | www.grcc.org.uk |
| Community Action Hampshire | www.action.hants.org.uk |
| Community First Herefordshire & Worcestershire | www.communityhw.org.uk |
| Community Development Agency for Hertfordshire | www.cda4herts.org.uk |
| Humber & Wolds RCC | www.hwrcc.org.uk |
| Isle of Wight RCC | This site is being redeveloped Email: mail@iwrcc.org.uk |
| Action with Communities in Rural Kent | www.ruralkent.org.uk |
| Community Futures, Lancashire | www.communityfutures.org.uk |
| Rural Community Council (Leicestershire & Rutland) | www.ruralcc.org.uk |
| Community Council of Lincolnshire | www.cclincs.com |
| Norfolk RCC | www.norfolkrcc.org.uk |
| Northamptonshire ACRE | www.ruralnet.org.uk/~northantsacre |
| Community Council of Northumberland | www.ccn-morpeth.freeserve.co.uk |
| Nottinghamshire RCC | www.nottsrcc.org.uk |
| Oxfordshire RCC | www.oxonrcc.org.uk |
| Community Council of Shropshire | www.shropshire-rcc.org.uk |
| Community Council for Somerset | www.somersetrcc.org.uk |
| Community Council of Staffordshire | www.staffs.org.uk |
| Suffolk ACRE | www.suffolkacre.org.uk |
| Surrey Community Action | www.surreyca.org.uk |
| Action in Rural Sussex | www.ruralsussex.org.uk |
| Tees Valley RCC | www.teesvalleyrcc.org |
| Warwickshire RCC | www.ruralwarwickshire.org.uk |
| Community First, Wiltshire | www.communityfirst.org.uk |
| Yorkshire RCC | www.yorkshirercc.co.uk |
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