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Excellence in research, project management, design, planning and delivery.
Broad experience, broad minds, bold ideas.
Rural Solutions Consulting promote a strongly evidential basis to establishing new market opportunities, concept viability and to driving strategic decision making. Our Concept to Completion service is rooted in
understanding the specific criteria needed to substantiate investment in a new diversification business or in adapting an existing venture to respond better to changes in the market. The
consumer is now firmly in control and we help our clients maintain the necessary focus on being different recognising their strengths and striving to deliver initiatives that are hard for others
to replicate.
Please contact Ralph Foljambe to see how we can help you.
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Client:
Landowner, South West of England
Service:
In depth research to understand the opportunities available for commercial and leisure diversification. We advised on the most viable options and we provided the architectural design services to reconfigure the buildings accordingly.
Outcome:
The client is reformatting the existing commercial offer and will be making a planning application for a new leisure development.
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Client:
Historic House Owner, Southern Scotland
Service:
Advice to enable the owner to plan the house being opened to the public in association with a wider day visitor and garden attraction.
Outcome:
The house will be opened for 6 months of the year in Spring 2012 and the associated infrastructure is being agreed with the local authority on behalf of the owner.
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Client:
Business Centre Owner, North East of England
Service:
Production of a new marketing strategy for a high quality rural business centre that had beenstruggling to adapt to the changed market conditions brought about by the economic downturn.
Outcome:
A totally new approach was taken to engaging with potential occupiers, starting with the recruitment of an in-house marketing manager. Within 6 months of adopting the recommended changes 80% of the vacant office space was let to new tenants.
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Client:
Client, North West of England
Service:
We advised on how the house and garden attraction in a listed setting could be improved to take a greater share of the regional tourism marketplace. The project was about assessing new opportunities and ideas and understanding where gaps in the existing market provision could be exploited, despite the client's remote location.
Outcome:
The estate is undertaking a complete rebranding exercise; adopting a new marketing strategy focused on providing new facilities to meet customer's expectations.
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Client:
Landowner, South West of England
Service:
We were commissioned to consider and make recommendations to secure the future of fourteen property assets within the same ownership, ranging from heritage property, redundant farm buildings and bare land sites.
Outcome:
We are working with the client to secure planning consent for leisure and residential uses, as well as helping to consider ways in which the estate can work with the local community as a strategic development partner.
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Service:
We provide support for clients through our national programme of workshops. These are facilitated and interactive sessions designed to encourage collaboration between delegates to share ideas and initiatives. We also operate the company Rural Networks Ltd which offers unique internet marketing portals specifically for businesses located in the countryside.
Outcome:
These services have enabled many clients to redefine new marketing and PR initiatives and gain the tools to better understand the rural marketplace and customer's requirements. Our members benefit from a vastly enhanced internet presence with better access to new customers and trusted suppliers.
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Client:
Corporate Client, South of England
Service:
To co-ordinate with the local community to support the future development of five recently closed dairy units.
Outcome:
Community consultation, survey and meetings; agreement of a bi-party development plan; adoption of a development plan within the North Wiltshire Local Development Framework (LDF); redevelopment of five sites, including a new community hub, access improvements and investment in community leisure activities.
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Client:
Private Client, North of England
Service:
We evaluated how a client could deliver a new woodland visitor attraction to benefit from the established presence of a UK leisure operator already situated on the estate.
Outcome:
We will be taking forward further research with other landowners to explore the latent opportunities that exist where large leisure operators are situated in close proximity to estate owners and farmers. We are establishing a collective approach, whereby landowners will be able to negotiate with nationally renowned leisure operators as a UK wide group, rather than as individual entities.
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