🏡 English Rural is a non-profit specialist provider of affordable rural homes and a leading advocate on #ruralhousing issues. Chief Exec: @EnglishRuralCEO
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NEW — out today for #RuralHousingWeek. Our FREE toolkit helps rural communities make devolution work for affordable housing. 300,000+ people are on rural social housing waiting lists. Don't let rural be written out of the plan. Download 👇 #RuralHousing #Devolution @natfednews
How can we bridge research and practice to deliver more affordable rural homes?
Join the Rural Housing Innovation Network’s hybrid workshop on 14 October, with researchers and practitioners exploring barriers, partnerships and practical solutions.
Register:
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#RuralHousing
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Thank you @EnglishRural for joining today’s Rural Affordable Housing & Planning session. Their evidence challenges the assumption that rural homes are harder and more expensive to manage.
We’re proud to recognise English Rural as a conference supporter. rsnonline.org.uk/meet-englis…
We're looking for our next Chair.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of affordable #ruralhousing and lead the Board of a specialist housing association serving villages and rural communities across England.
If you have experience of strategic leadership, governance and helping organisations deliver meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.
📥 Download the recruitment pack: englishrural.org.uk/english-…
Applications close: 14 September 2026, 12 noon.
#ChairRecruitment #SocialHousing #NonExecutive #Governance
Yesterday our staff took part in English Rural’s first Big Door Knock, meeting residents face-to-face, listening to their stories, answering queries, logging repairs, recording support needs and noting maintenance issues.
Thank you to every resident who spoke with us. Your feedback matters.
englishrural.org.uk/our-big-…
#RuralHousing #ResidentEngagement
One week on from a special day in Longstock. 🌿🏡
We were honoured to welcome our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, to officially open new affordable homes for local people in Hampshire and celebrate the partnerships that make rural housing possible.
English Rural 🏡 retweeted
Great to join HRH The Princess Royal, Patron of @EnglishRural, during #RuralHousingWeek, seeing first-hand the difference affordable homes can make in rural communities. 🏡🌾
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Great to join @EnglishRural during #RuralHousingWeek and see first-hand the difference affordable homes can make in rural communities.
A good discussion on the challenges facing local people and the importance of Rural Housing Enablers in helping get schemes off the ground. 🏡🌾
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🏡Join us next week for a RSN Member Exclusive Seminar on Rural Affordable Housing. Hear from @EnglishRural, @SouthHams_DC, @BoroughDevon & @northyorksc on rural housing, homelessness & delivering affordable homes.
➡️us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
#RuralHousingWeek #NationalChampion
Good to see rural affordable housing recognised in the Fabian Society's @thefabians latest housing report.
The call for a rural "right to build" and continued support for rural housing enablers reflects what we see every day. Rural communities need affordable homes if local people are to stay close to jobs, family and support networks.
We're proud that this work is helping shape the national conversation on housing. #RuralHousing #AffordableHousing #RuralHousingWeek
🚨 New Report - Quick Wins: Building Homes in the Communities That Need Them
@BenCooper1995 and Palma Oxley from the The Fabian Housing Centre, in partnership with the Land Planning and Development Federation sets out how the next Prime Minister could get England building more than 300,000 homes a year – the highest in over 50 years with 10 Quick Wins🧵
A proud moment for English Rural yesterday as our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, officially opened our new affordable homes in Longstock, Hampshire, during #RuralHousingWeek. 👑
These much-needed homes will help local people stay in the village they love, supporting the long-term sustainability of this rural community.
#AffordableHousing #RuralHousingWeek #RuralCommunities
Her Royal Highness took time to meet residents and project partners, hear first-hand about the difference affordable rural housing makes, tour one of the new homes, and plant a commemorative tree to mark the occasion in Longstock. 🌳🏡
We were also delighted to welcome Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, @StephenMorganMP, to Longstock. He met with @EnglishRuralCEO to discuss the vital role affordable housing plays in supporting thriving rural communities and helping local people remain in the places they call home. 🏡🌿
#RuralHousingWeek #RuralCommunities
4/ Inside: who to talk to, five actions you can take, checklists to “rural-proof” your local plan, and ready-made letters to your MP and strategic authority. Built on @CCRI_UK / Rural Housing Network research. Free to use, free to share. englishrural.org.uk/rural-de…
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🏘️This #RuralHousingWeek, take a look at this short video produced by @natfednews highlighting why affordable homes are essential for sustaining vibrant rural communities.
👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Ola1dxIJ…
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🖥️ @natfednews are hosting a webinar on 18 July about the new Social and Affordable Homes Programme, planning policy changes, and rural housing challenges. Sign up here: housing.org.uk/nhf_catalog/e… #RuralHousingWeek
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🌳 It's #RuralHousingWeek!
Only 1 in 10 homes in rural areas is affordable.
This week, housing associations and partners across England are highlighting why affordable rural homes matter.
👉 Read @KateNHF's blog: housing.org.uk/news-and-blog……
English Rural 🏡 retweeted
This week (6th-10th July) is #RuralHousingWeek ! 🏠 To kick off the week, we would like to share a video from the National Housing Federation which explains the importance of affordable homes to the wider rural community: f.mtr.cool/bmftrvolvb #Acre_national #DCHH #Devon
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🌳In @guardian today, we're warning that half of all future rural #AffordableHomes could be lost, if govt brings forward proposals to remove #AffordableHousing requirements for medium sites.
We urge ministers to scrap these proposals. #RuralHousingWeek
👉theguardian.com/society/2026…
