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The Rural Insight Survey provides a comprehensive overview of the opinions and experiences of rural England and its inhabitants. Drawing on extensive contacts with rural communities (including businesses, residents and local groups), the Survey provides fresh and insightful perspectives into people’s views of the challenges and opportunities they encounter living, working in and visiting rural places. The Survey is undertaken annually by Rose Regeneration and Ruralcity Media with support from the Rural Services Network. The 2012 Survey is your chance to voice opinions about issues which affect your daily life.                                

Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) offer a new way of co-ordinating environmental activities by ensuring they involve everyone in the community, including businesses, residents and local groups. LNPs are intended to be self-sustaining partnerships which manage the local natural environment as a system and build links with economic and political decision-making processes. Pennine Prospects along with Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Lancashire Oldham & Rochdale Councils, Natural England, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern Rail and membership organisations (e.g. the National Trust) would like to develop a LNP for the South Pennines. The South Pennines is a distinctive upland landscape - part of the Pennine ridge of hills, lying at the watershed between the Irish and North seas; between the Peak District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Nidderdale AONB; and within three conurbations: Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and Lancashire. Rose Regeneration is working with Pennine Prospects to help businesses understand the economic value of ecosystem services provided by the South Pennines; to build links with voluntary and community sector organisations; and to liaise with neighbouring LNP proposals to resolve boundary issues.