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CRC: The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has launched the 'Quids In' campaign to create greater awareness of the financial services needs of rural people. It includes research findings which highlight a number of imaginative community-based solutions to the provision of financial services in rural areas.
 
The launch begins a programme of promotion of financial inclusion in rural areas, ahead of a good practice exchange event being planned for April which will be a further opportunity to explore solutions in this area.
Press release ~ 'Promoting Financial Inclusion in Rural Areas' ~ British Bankers' Association ~ Now Let's Talk Money ~ State of the Countryside report 2007 ~ Rural Service Support (RSSupport) - Experts Online
 
NA: In response to growing demand, The National Archives has agreed temporary free onsite internet access to the birth, deaths and marriages indexes, through findmypast.com, the UK family history website.
 
Users at The National Archives´ Kew site, and on the first floor of the Family Records Centre in Myddleton Street, up until 15 March 2008, will have free access to the digitised indexes, for an initial one-year trial period.
Press release ~ The National Archives of the United Kingdom
 
OS: The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show is back for 2008 and the national mapping agency and its partners will be on hand to showcase the latest and greatest innovations in the world of outdoor leisure.
 
To be held on 14–16 March 2008 at Birmingham’s NEC, the show boasts a huge selection of new gear, the chance to learn to dive, scale a wall of ice, learn survival skills and meet celebrity guests Bear Grylls and Kate Silverton among many others.
Press release ~ The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show 2008 ~ OS Explore
 
CRC: The Commission for Rural Communities is highlighting the 6th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, which returns to Dumfries in May 2008, where it will run alongside the Rural Regional Development Conference.  The Conference is organised by the Centre for Research into Regional Development (CRRED).

They're now calling for papers - researchers and those developing or delivering policies or programmes in these fields are invited to send abstracts for papers to the CRRED.

Press release ~ 6th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference ~ Centre for Research into Regional Development (CRRED)

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