RURAL FUTURES (NORTH WEST) LIMITED

ABOUT RURAL FUTURES (NORTH WEST) LIMITED

For the private sector Rural Futures provides practical professional services to individual rural businesses. Specialising in planning, funding and business support our team of experts have a track record in delivering practical advice that delivers. Our main areas of activity are detailed below:

Rural planning advice for business and residential development.

Feasibility studies and business planning.

Farm business support including Agri-environment advice, farm diversification and farm business planning.

Community support through planning services, community facilities and third sector business development.

Rural Futures also provides strategic consultancy services to public bodies to create, analyse and evaluate policy. With years of practical hands on experience in rural development and renewables Rural Futures has a track record in translating strategy into delivery. The business can also assist public sector organisations transform ideas into action, implement their plans and develop, deliver and evaluate their programmes of work.

The business grew from the Lancashire Rural Futures (LRF) programme that operated for over nine years. During this period the work of the team became a national example of best practice in the way it created and translated strategy into delivery. This experience has provided the Rural Futures team with a unique skill set that links public policy and programme delivery with the business, community and environmental sectors.

With a wide network of contacts, years of practical experience and a depth of knowledge of problem solving, we are proud of our successes and our ability to actually deliver change.