Smiling depression: appearing happy on the outside while feeling depressed inside. This is a dangerous condition to have and why we need to pay attention. By Olivia Remes, Researcher at University of Cambridge Smiling depression is a difficult condition to deal with. It refers to looking happy on the outside while inside feeling depressed. Internet
It’s hard to believe that this is our third annual Mind Your Head campaign but, following the past two campaigns in 2018 and 2019, noise around mental health in the farming industry is thankfully growing and people are starting recognise the impact of this issue on the industry. Mental health is one of the biggest
Welcome to Mind Your Head 2020… one week in the year when we shine the spotlight on our wonderful agricultural industry and the key element that is often overlooked when media stories are grabbing headlines… the people behind it. In our first blog of the week, our Manager Stephanie Berkeley looks at how initiatives like
In her first blog for the site, our newest team member Sophie Marsh highlights some of the wonderful and creative work that people, companies and YFCs have been doing to raise money to allow us to continue the work we do preserving and protecting the physical and mental wellbeing of the next generation of farmers…
We have even more cause to celebrate this holiday season as we have been given an early Christmas present in the form of £10,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. Since 2015, we have been delivering our unique Introduction to Farm Safety training to over 10,000
Wow! what a busy year we’ve had this year… award-winning campaigns, an exciting new development in the education programme and a brand new Mental Health in Farming session… To finish the year, Olivia, Sophie and I have been working on a special message to share with you all on our social media channels. The short
On the final day of National Young Farmers Week, so we thought we would end the week with a blog from Matt Dibble, a young farmer who has been sharing his very personal journey of how he is setting up his own farm with his +5,000 Instagram followers. According to Matt: “Breaking into the farming
Following last month’s Farm Safety Week, Mike Rowe, a consultant on the ‘Two Minute Farmer’ project led by Duchy College and Stephens Scown solicitors, offers his thoughts on the approach this year’s campaign took – to drive real action – and issues his own challenge to the industry… “One of the most frequently heard words
Today marks the end of the seventh annual Farm Safety Week, and Joe Healy, Irish Farmers Association President, outlines the gravity of the situation in the Republic of Ireland, why the IFA has appointed a full time Farm Health and Safety Executive and what they are hoping to achieve with this weeks series of family
Stuart Roberts chairs the England Farm Safety Partnership and, as a farmer himself, Vice-President of the National Farmers’ Union and one of the key figures behind last year’s #LensLeg social media drive, is passionate, committed and driven to make a real change. “If there’s one thing I want to achieve as Vice President of the