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Key Themes 2014Emma Cooper, Scottish Rural Parliament Coordinator

Identifying the themes

• Existing research

• Ten options

• Online survey

• Offline survey

• Board decision

Key Themes

• Rural businesses and employment• Access to broadband• Transport infrastructure• Issues of land use and planning • Protecting natural assets and adapting to

environmental change• Support for communities to lead with

confidence• Health and social care

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building supportive strategic infrastructure eg smaller scale abattoirs and product dev premises is crucial

We have funding for community minibuses, but not for scheduled services. Funding streams dictate use.

Decent broadband & mobile essential for remote health & social care #ruralhour All interconnected

Enabling young people to making a living & build a life in remote/rural locations - land for homes & small businesses

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Imperative to value and support those who already work with the environment not just newer large scale projects

Good governance is hard, but training and guidance becoming easier to access through TSIs

Excellent GP services here but recruitment & retention an increasing problem in remote rural areas.

Local Events

• Cairngorms• Fife• Moray and Nairn• Perth• Loch Lomond• Orkney• Golspie• Shetland• Perthshire• Ullapool• Argyll

• Castle Douglas• Skye• Angus• Ayr• Dumfries and Galloway• Borders• Aberdeenshire• Isle of Lewis• Isle of Benbecula• Isle of Jura• Lochcarron/Applecross• Canonbie• Isle of Bute

Working GroupsRemit: • main issues; • current research; • solutions; • workshops; • short report.

Scottish Rural Parliament

• All workshops lead to recommendations for change• Collated for Saturday morning• Strategy • Voting• Report – February 2015• Debate in Scottish Parliament

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Programme

Norman MacAskillDirector of SRA

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Friday Programme

8 for 8.30 Presentations• Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment, Mr Richard

Lochhead, MSP• Carol Craig, CEO, Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing – Local decision-

making and community confidence. • Anneli Kana, Estonian Rural Parliament – Impact of the Estonian Rural

Parliament on rural communities

10.15 & 11.45 Key Theme Workshops

14.15 Open Space Workshop

19.15 Dinner

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Saturday Programme

9 for 9.30 Presentation• Cllr David O’Neill, Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy

10.30 Future of the Scottish Rural Parliament

12noon Ideas, to policy, to delivery– moving our rural agenda forward.

13.20 Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning and local MSP, Michael Russell

13.40 Concluding remarks, John Hutchison, Chair of Scottish Rural Action

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Open Space

Sandy BruntonDirector of SRA

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The Big PictureArgyll Voluntary Action