CREATIVE RURAL INDUSTRIES CONSORTIUM

Over the past three years the RCF has been engaged in a range of rural cultural advocacy work with the statutory agencies, DCMS, DEFRA, Arts Council England and the Commission for Rural Communities. This includes the proposal for a Rural Cultural Strategy making the case for new arts and cultural funding and resources for rural communities and rural regeneration. The RCF has been active in organising conferences and exhibitions and developing cultural diversity and cross-sector (urban/rural) strategic partnerships. The RCF organised the New Rural Design and Architecture conference at the DEFRA/CSL centre in York in June 2005, and staged the first international Creative Rural Economy conference at Lancaster University in September 2006. The Forum mounted a series of exhibitions show-casing rural community creativity and new rural arts at the Royal Agricultural Shows in 2007 and 2008 and various regional events, in collaboration with ACE West Midlands.

Also known as: CRIC

Primary location: St Austell United Kingdom