Rural Housing Week

Get involved

To ensure Rural Housing Week has the greatest possible impact, we need your help.

• Save the date: 6-10 July 2026 and spread the word among colleagues.
• Follow #RuralHousingWeek on social media and share the stories you find there.
• Share our Rural Housing Week video, which explains the importance of affordable homes to the wider rural community.
• Create and share your own Rural Housing Week supporter graphic (below).
• Register for our webinar on Tuesday 7 July 2026 when we'll discuss the impact of the new Social and Affordable Homes Programme for rural housing, changes to the National Planning Policy Framework, and the opportunities and challenges for rural housing stakeholders in the current environment.
• Prepare your own stories and share them during the week using #RuralHousingWeek. These might include quotes, photos, videos, written case studies, a blog or a news article.
• Invite your local representatives (MPs, mayors, councillors) to visit so they can see for themselves what your organisation does and the impact it has (visits don't have to be during Rural Housing Week). To help with this, we’ve created a customisable template invitation.
• To help with these conversations and others, use our local economic impact calculator to help quantify the impact of affordable housing in your area.
• Keep an eye out for a new rural devolution toolkit, a practical guide for rural communities to make the most of devolution as it progresses in their area. This will be published during Rural Housing Week. For now, take a look at the research that informed this toolkit, and our other devolution resources for NHF members.