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Rural Cost of Living Household Survey

The Rural Services Network in partnership with the Citizens Advice is running a Rural Cost of Living Household Survey and are looking for responses from across England.
We are thrilled with the 4700 responses we have had so far but we would like more and are hoping you can help!
HELP NEEDED IN TARGETING HARD TO REACH RESIDENTS

Ideally, we would like to target hard to reach rural residents, i.e. those without access to the internet or the capacity to engage with services online.

So if you are out and about in your rural community and have the means to help others to fill out a survey that would be great. The survey can be completed multiple times from a smart phone, tablet or computer, so it’s fine if different people use the same device to complete the survey.

If you have a local library, village hall or community shop with internet access and a computer it would be good if you could ask permission to display this poster.

As much as we would like to supply paper surveys and input them ourselves, resources don’t allow us to do so, that’s why we would really appreciate your help.

HOW WILL THE RESULTS BE USED?
Results from the survey will build on the Rural Cost of Living research we commissioned last year and help us to lobby Government Departments, MPs and other policy makers for a fairer deal for rural communities.

The Rural Cost of Living Household Survey can be accessed here
The survey will run until 31 March 2023 and is open to rural residents throughout England.