Welcome to Action with Communities in Rural Kent

What we do

• Provide direct advice and support to community organisations
• Stimulate community action, particularly voluntary action, and encourage good practice
• Develop and manage demonstration projects
• Provide professional support and advice to key service providers
• Raise awareness of rural issues and influence decision makers

Action with Communities in Rural Kent (previously known as Kent Rural Community Council) is an independent voluntary organisation (Registered Charity No. 212796).

We have now moved, check out multimap here for our location.

Membership is open to any organisation, community group or individual who supports our purpose. Benefits of membership include our monthly newsletter, "Rural News" and our periodical, "Oast to Coast" for news and information on rural issues, as well as invitations to participate in seminars, events and conferences at reduced rates, also one to one advice.

For more information on member benefits click here.

Minster-in-Thanet - Calor Kent Village of the Year 2009

Latest news

COMMA Fund

The COMMA Fund will re-open to applicants on the 1st March 2010. The application form will be available from this website on that date. The deadline for completed forms is the 14th May 2010.

Community Led Planning Database

The new Community Led Plan database is now up and running, which allows you to view all of the Plans that are completed or currently underway across the whole of the South East region. Please click here to view it.

(Posted 23/11/09)

Sustainable Communities Poster

The new "21st Century Rural Community" poster is now out. Please click here to download it. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

(Posted 23/11/09)

Community Transport Database Now On-Line.

If you want to know what community transport schemes operate in your area you can now find out HERE! Click on a map of Kent or enter your postcode to bring up a list of schemes with contact details and a brief explanation of the services they provide. (Posted 20/05/09)

Community Shops Toolkit

The new Community Shops Toolkit can now been downloaded from our "Community Shops" page.

(Posted 21/05/09)

Parish Planning

We are running a number of Drop-in sessions to inform communities about the benefits of doing a Parish Plan. For a list of dates and locations, click HERE!