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RURAL life

RURAL life NEWS

Fact Finding mission to Wessex Grain and Carymoor Environmental Centre

Carymoor Environmental Trust website: www.carymoor.org.uk

Enterprise4Inclusion is an action research programme, financed by Defra, which provides support to social enterprises and voluntary organisations which plan to commence or develop enterprise-based activities which benefit socially excluded people in English rural communities. A dedicated website is now available for applicants to download Guidance Notes and an Application Form.  For more information go to www.enterprise4inclusion.org.uk

Rural Life Adviser and ACORA Link Officer
The Reverend Robert Widdowson
The Rectory, Fosse Road, Oakhill, Radstock, BA3 5HU
Tel: 01749 841688
Email: ruralrobert@fsmail.net

Part Time Rural Life Adviser Taunton Deanery
Mr Robert Walrond
The Wagon House, Pitney, Langport, Somerset,  TA10 9AP
Tel: 01458 253002

The advisers are supported by, and are part of, the Diocesan Rural Life Group.

The Rural Life Adviser acts as a focus for information and advice on all rural matters and seeks to keep the Diocese and parishes up to date with current thinking through this web site, mailings to Rural Deans and in some cases individual parishes. Preaching and speaking engagements are undertaken by both officers, to Diocesan and Deanery Synods and to Mothers' Union, Women's Institute groups as well as Men's Breakfast groups and Farmers' Suppers. The Rural Life Adviser is also chaplain to Somerset Farm Crisis Network.

The livestock markets at Frome and Cutcombe have chaplains, two of whom are members of the Agricultural Association.

Members of the Rural Life Group organise training days as part of the Continuing Ministerial Education training programme.

Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A look at the significant difference between Town and Country in which we have a chance to explore and create ways in which we might help/support/encourage each other and consider the different ways and approaches to ministry and understanding of God in Town and Country.

Rural Ministry Experience Day
A day geared to those considering ministry in the countryside or those new to it, bringing insights to the make-up of a village, people of power and influence, prayer and worship, time and a rule of life. The day will include a farm visit, a visit to a school and participation in a pub lunch!

A Clergy in Rural Ministry group exists for those who feel that they might benefit from the fellowship of others sharing in the same work. The group meets four time a year for lunch and to share items of common interest and concern, sometimes with the help of visiting speakers. The co-ordinator of the group is the Rural Life Adviser.