What is NationalRural?

NationalRural was established in 2004 as a Knowledge Exchange - a service provided by universities and colleges for rural businesses and organisations. The project was set up with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as one of 22 Centres for Knowledge Exchange activity in the country. NationalRural represented a collaboration of 14 universities and colleges with its influence extending to many other universities and colleges with rural interests and expertise.

The Knowledge Exchange put rural businesses and organisations in touch with university and college services and promoted networks with rural development bodies for successful knowledge transfer in the land-based and rural sectors.

Following on from the funded phase of the project, its online service - the NationalRural Directory, has been retained. It is supported and maintained by Harper Adams University College and provides:

• On-line information about rural organisations and initiatives (some 2,000 in number) and their knowledge exchange events, actively marketed to a wide audience across the country;
• An active demonstration of the use of web 2.0 technologies for the exchange of information across geographically dispersed organisations working with the rural sector over a wide range of subject areas.

Media Resources

Logos and other material suitable for use by press and other media are available for download here

Stock Image Library

A wide range of digital photographic images of rural subjects is maintained by NationalRural, and is avaliable for public use under a Creative Commons attribution agreement . This means you are free to use these images with the proviso that you make attribution to NationalRural as the source of these NationalRural images.