Community Development Workers - Countryside Agency: In November 2000, the Government’s Rural White Paper (RWP) announced money for the Countryside Agency for three years to fund community development work in rural areas. The Countryside Agency has subsequently established the Community Development Workers programme, delivering the RWP’s aim in helping new communities set up projects to tackle problems of social exclusion. The Community Development Worker programme has funded each Rural Community Council to employ a rural community development worker (CDW).

Seri: A network of thinkers across Europe who want to take forward the ideas that emerged from the Sustainable Europe campaign that Friends of the Earth Europe ran between 1994-97.

Airimpacts: This website serves as host and dissemination point for relevant and useful information to promote increased collaboration among researchers, and to facilitate information exchange between experts and policymakers.

Anped - Northern Alliance For Sustainability: Works to empower Northern civil society in creating and protecting sustainable communities and societies world-wide. We do this by: - Building capacity among Northern civil society organisations through sharing of information, knowledge, and skills; and - Enabling informed and effective democratic participation by civil society in local, national, regional and international decision-making on sustainable development policy and processes.

Uk Organic Guide: Resources page dedicated to bringing information for customers looking for local organic food, wine and clothes retailers.

Morespeed: This site covers the developing Harborough Magna and Area Project, which will build a Broadband Network to the North of Rugby, linking surrounding villages together and to the Internet.

Connecting Communities - Bringing Broadband To Western Isles: Connected Communities Broadband is an exciting pilot project to bring broadband services to a number of rural communities throughout the Western Isles. The pilot has been funded through the DTI/UKOnline sponsored Broadband Fund with Western Isles Enterprise and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar providing the balance of the project funds. Because of the wide distribution of the population across a number of islands more traditional methods of providing broadband, like cable, are impractical. This is why wireless is being used to provide broadband across the islands. The Western Isles ‘Connected Communities’ project will deliver an innovative high performance broadband wireless network across the five main populated islands, bringing together a diverse range of organisations and individuals and piloting a number of technologies which we believe will be a model for other rural and island areas to replicate.

Charity Technology Trust - Ctt: Charity Technology Trust (CTT) is a registered UK charity (number 1073954) formed to increase the efficiency of other charities by using new technology and the internet. CTT aims to improve charities’ efficiency and their donor relationships by the provision of best of breed technology tools and specialist ICT know-how to charities. CTT offers a one-stop service for charities’ digital and email communications needs. They deliver a service for broadcast emails (eg. eNewsletters), alerts and campaigns. To date they have sent over 1.3 million charity emails in 175 campaigns on behalf of over 20 causes. The Lotteries division has developed two new secure on-line entry and processing systems for the lottery products used most frequently by charities for fundraising. The Lottery products are raffles and Weekly draw Lotteries. The systems allow charities for the first time to offer their supporters and the general public the opportunity to enter their raffles or weekly Lotteries on-line. The systems enable charities to create a new permanent distribution channel. The benefits of these systems are: New incremental sales; Lower costs; Lower risk. CTT Raffles : the on-line raffles system is simple to set up and operate. They build your own raffle site; host it and process all the entries and payment sand pass the money straight through to your bank account. For more details visit their website. EDraws : eDraws operates in the same way as CTT raffles. In addition the system offers you on-line access to your site to enable you to update the text;images and weekly prize winners yourself. CTT provides a one-stop shop for IT advice and project based eCommunications, payments and ICT consulting. Backed by the donated and charity priced resources of a number of commercial partners CTT has unprecedented access to the right resources for key charity ICT projects. Charity Technology Trust, 2nd Floor, The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX Tel: 020 7981 0400 Fax: 020 7981 0411

Oban Tourism Development: The Oban and Lorn Tourism Association has put together information on the scenery, landscapes and seascapes and the numerous activities in the region.

Mountain Bothies Charity: The Mountain Bothies Association is a charity which looks after about 100 shelters in some of the remoter parts of the UK. We welcome new members among hill walkers, climbers or long distance cyclists who use bothies and want to join in our extensive repair and maintenance programme.