Your Community Needs You!

There's a new feeling in the air. Politicians talk of ‘big society' but the idea is actually about making ‘small society' or local community count once more.

Last year in our Your Countryside Needs You! campaign, we urged you to buy products from the British countryside. Now we're asking you to help where you live thrive.

Each month Country Living magazine will be featuring different themes and ways that you can get involved. Keep checking this page for case studies, information, useful contacts, activities and events that will help boost spirits in your local community.

Click on the links below for ideas and ways that you can play a part.

Tap into local flavours Harness the groundswell of concern and support for local food and regional producers

Saving the past How heritage brings communities together in preservation campaigns and links strangers in projects of discovery

Improve your social life The spaces, facilities and activities that give even the most isolated community a sense of identity and belonging

Useful contacts Click here for a list of contacts to help you bring your local community together

Let us know what you think of Your Community Needs You! Click here to tell us what you think of the campaign and let us know how you have been getting involved

The Prince's Countryside Fund is Country Living magazine's charity of the year and will be supporting its work at the CL Fairs and in the magazine. It's funded by businesses that have a connection to the countryside, through the products they make or sell. You can donate through your post office. Visit www.princescountrysidefund.org.uk.

Click here to find out more about Country Living magazine's Your Countryside Needs You! campaign