Nursery World - Rural fund helps nurseries

An initiative to help expand childcare services for people living in the English countryside has been launched by the Countryside Agency. The 'Vital Villages' initiative aims to help rural communities to tackle some of the problems they face, such as a lack of childcare provision and local transport needs. Four grants are available through the programme - community service grants to help maintain or introduce services such as a childcare scheme or help a village shop; parish plans grants to fund the creation of action plans to examine and tackle the social, economic and environmental issues facing a village; parish transport grants to support small-scale projects to meet the transport needs of the local community; and rural transport grants to enable the creation of local partnerships to plan and implement solutions to local transport needs.

The 'Vital Villages' initiative aims to help rural communities to tackle some of the problems they face, such as a lack of childcare provision and local transport needs. Four grants are available through the programme - community service grants to help maintain or introduce services such as a childcare scheme or help a village shop; parish plans grants to fund the creation of action plans to examine and tackle the social, economic and environmental issues facing a village; parish transport grants to support small-scale projects to meet the transport needs of the local community; and rural transport grants to enable the creation of local partnerships to plan and implement solutions to local transport needs.

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