by rebecca | Sep 29, 2018 | JCM News
Over 50% of the world population is under 30 years of age with those at school and college never having licked a stamp nor having to wait while their broadband dials-up. In world terms Facebook now has a larger audience than the population of any country, LinkedIn has...
by rebecca | Sep 13, 2018 | JCM News
The number of dairy herds in the north east and the north of Scotland is a tale of woe. In the first six months of this year, the Scottish Dairy Cattle Association revealed that we now have just 28 dairy herds in Aberdeenshire (I was surprised there were this many),...
by rebecca | Aug 17, 2018 | JCM News
Young people have the ideas and the energy to change things for the better in rural places, and it’s my firm belief that, with the support of us ‘oldies’, they can make rural places a magnate for, rather than a ‘has been’ place for the under 30s. It was this belief...
by rebecca | May 24, 2018 | JCM News
Nearly 40% of young people living rurally plan to move to urban centres, according to the interim results from the Rural Youth Project survey. 92% say broadband is essential to their future, and 50% don’t feel they have a say in what happens in their local community....
by rebecca | May 12, 2018 | JCM News
I recently met a 16-year-old schoolgirl on placement with Lantra, the land-based learning organisation. She is from an urban background and wants to become a lawyer. There are a number of perceptions she has about the countryside that really made me think. The first...
