Rural youth making their voices heard...

[The Business Barn]

Young people in rural communities have been given their chance to help shape the future of the rural economy.

The Rural Youth Project, launched at the start of this year by Jane Craigie Marketing, has been developed to find out more about the opinions of 18 to 28 year olds with a view to informing the wider industry and policy-makers and support the future of the rural youth.

The project has so far seen an online survey completed by more than 750 young people living and working in rural areas around the world highlighting key challenges and opportunities for this generation, as well as a Rural Youth Ideas Festival in Scotland where the results of the survey were shared.

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[Tarw Coch]

A rural youth festival, now there’s an idea, how about holding it in Blackpool next May.

More seriously, isn’t this the sort of issue YFC already discuss and loby on at national level?

 

[janecraigie]

We're the crew behind the Rural Youth Project. Matt Naylor came to speak at the related Ideas Festival we held - his Farmers Weekly column last Friday ((10 August) suggested we replace the YFC Blackpool gig with this kind of festival.