Sustainable Rural Development - Environmental Consultants

Our Services - Economic

Assessing and improving economic sustainability and real business options

We have experience of business in many contexts having helped develop business consortia, successful business plans for individual businesses and groups and carried out feasibility studies for new social businesses.

We take a participatory approach to business planning, whether working on town plans, with business consortia or with rural product development and marketing.

Our particular skill lies in the development of the business environment for and with SMEs, focussing on micro-businesses in rural areas, with a view to developing sustainable economic futures in all aspects.

Rural Product Development and Marketing
At Rural Resources we have developed a specialised service providing marketing support to natural resource based sustainable rural development projects and businesses.

We have found that many potential income generating ideas were struggling due to a lack of sound market assessment and appropriate product development. In addition, most of the existing support was felt to be too urban orientated or not sympathetic enough to rural business needs.

We now work with others to bridge this gap and provide tailored support, which can be used in conjunction with existing support such as Business Links / Business Connect.

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Tel: 01938 555759 Fax: 0870 133 7852 Email: admin@rural-resources.co.uk
Web: www.rural-resources.co.uk
1 New Street, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 7SF