Y&H Rural Framework and 10 Priorities

We have updated the Terms of Reference for the new Y&H RAF structure incorporating in one document most of the changes.
The new YF funding requires us to have an Accountable Body to do financial things and monitor their funding input is being properly delivered. FERA at Sand Hutton have agreed to and been appointed as our Accountable Body. Their first actions for us were to manage and implement the appointment of our new secretariat.

Hopefully we should then be able to produce a new leaflet and revamp bits of this site to take all this change forward. The first job for the new Executive Manager methinks.
Terms of Reference

The Rural Board requested the RAF and The Rural Practitioners Group (RPG to refresh (update) the Rural Framework
Rural Framework Refresh

Maximising the Rural Potential in Yorkshire &The Humber

The Yorkshire and The Humber Rural Framework
Following publication of the Government’s Rural Strategy 2004, Defra asked each English Region to develop the arrangements to prioritise and co-ordinate activity, funding and delivery to rural communities. This has led to the production of the Yorkshire and The Humber Rural Framework which sets out the priorities for action to ensure these are targeted where needed at local level across the region, thus securing sustainable development outcomes.

Yorkshire and the Humber Rural Framework
Y&H Rural Framework Supporting Evidence
Y&H Rural Framework Agenda for Action

The 10 Rural Priorities established in the Framework
These priorities will be key in guiding the work of the RAF, including the Steering Group and future task groups.

1. Rural business development – encourage enterprise and innovation within new and
    established rural businesses, and provide a co-ordinated support infrastructure that helps them adapt to change.

2. Employment, education and skills training – develop and encourage participation in
    quality learning opportunities, and support rural businesses in workforce development.

3. Market towns – support market towns as hubs for the rural economy and as service
    centres, providing locally based employment opportunities.

4. Sustainable tourism – develop, manage and promote rural Yorkshire and The Humber as a high-quality ‘sustainable tourism’ destination.

5. Access to services – ensure that rural communities are characterised by high levels of inclusion and equitable access to quality services that recognise demographic trends.

6. Rural transport – understand and addresses transport needs in rural areas through
    private, public and voluntary sector provision, to promote rural regeneration and tackle
    social exclusion.

7. Rural housing – understand and address housing needs in rural areas, recognising and tackling issues of fuel poverty.

8. Rural communities – promote social cohesion, and encourage and support the
    engagement of rural communities and the active roles that they can play.

9. The natural environment – conserve and enhance the region’s rural biodiversity,
    Its distinctiveness, and the quality of its natural and built environment

10. Promote a ‘functional landscape’ – where development draws on and sustains the
     natural, cultural and built heritage of the region’s rural areas.