This research project by Rural Community Network, funded by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister’s Equality Directorate Research Branch (OFM/DFM), was undertaken in order to help highlight and understand the key issues affecting rural older people living in poverty; to ascertain the level and type of contact between rural voluntary and community groups and older people living in rural communities. The research will also help illustrate the various groups working with older people and how this is being carried out in rural Northern Ireland. Together this will culminate in practical policy orientated recommendations to help address the forms of poverty and disadvantage that rural older people experience.