The East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum

The EMRAF Newsletter

Welcome to Rural Affairs, the e-newsletter produced by the East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum. Rural Affairs is published on a fortnightly basis and is circulated via an e-mail message with a link to view the document on this website. The newsletter contains all the latest news, events, training opportunities and job vacancies relating to rural issues and policies.

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Date	Issue number

08 February 2010	58	Download

18 January 2010	57	Download

23 December 2009	56	Download

Newsflash

East Midlands Rural Framework 2010 - 2013 & New Regional Director for RCA East Midlands

The East Midlands Rural Framework has now been published and is available for download on the Action Plan page of this website. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the document please contact Lynn Hage EMRAF Communications Officer on 01623 727600. New Regional Director for Rural Community Action East Midlands (RCAEM) Julie Bowers will take up the position as Regional Director for Rural Community Action East Midlands with responsibility for the Co-ordination of the East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum from 1st April 2010. Julie will come to EMRAF from her current post as Performance Specialist with the Audit Commission. She has a background in sport and leisure management which included a post as Sports and Events Officer for a rural tourism partnership in Northumberland. Here she worked with local businesses and regional agencies to develop and promote everything from Mountain bike routes to Husky dog racing!! Julie also spent 2 years in Nottingham working within the health sector developing partnership projects and during her 7 years with the Audit Commission led on the development of a performance management framework for LSP’s and undertook a wide range of work across the East Midlands.

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