About 100 Rural Years
Welcome to 100 Rural Years: the website of FANs, the Friends of the ACRE Network.
This website was established with the help of a grant from the Carnegie Foundation as part of the centenary celebrations of ACRE members and their predecessors (formerly known as Rural Community Councils or a variety of other titles). Further detail about the organisation and content of the website can be accessed here.
FANs is a group of former staff, volunteers and other supporters of the rural community development charities (known as rural community councils or a variety of other titles) each of which operates across a county area (past or present), and which form the national ACRE network (Action with Communities in Rural England).
FANs’ purposes are to cherish, celebrate and preserve the rich heritage of the activities and achievements of the ACRE network, and to enable FANs members to keep in touch with each-other. FANs welcomes new members.
FANs also publishes a newsletter, Rural Recall, past editions of which can be accessed on this website FANs- Friends of the ACRE Network