How Australia is Shifting the Narrative Around Farm Safety As Farm Safety Week kicks off here, our friends at Farmsafe Australia are also running their own Farm Safety Week campaign. Stevi Howdle, Executive Officer, FarmSafe Australia shares her views on the challenges they face farming in the ‘land down under’… “Australia’s agricultural sector is the
As the 13th annual Farm Safety Week campaign begins, Stephanie Berkeley, Manager of the Farm Safety Foundation explores why, 13 years on, farming is still unlucky for some… Monday 21st July 2025: As we mark the beginning of our 13th annual Farm Safety Week, it is sobering to reflect that, over these years, an average
Farm Safety Week is an annual awareness-raising campaign managed and funded by our team at the Farm Safety Foundation and has become a key focus in the farming calendar. The week brings together over 400 farming partners in five* countries to focus attention on the industry’s consistently poor safety record. (*England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
We are lucky to have a wide range of charities and farm & rural support groups working in this area and this section contains the details of some national and regional charities and support groups that you can call on in times of need. What if they’re not okay? If you, or someone you
Like any industry, in farming there are good days and not so good days, but it is difficult not to love the industry when a newborn animal takes its first steps, when the sun is setting over the fields, or when you see that crop you planted start appearing through the soil. It’s the small
With over a third of farmers we surveyed wanting to learn more about mental health, we have done some legwork and researched a few of the charities across the country who offer FREE mental health training for those in the agricultural industry. There are probably more so, if you offer free training, we’d love to
Collaboration is a word that is often overused or misused. True collaboration eliminates the need for competition and leads to collective success. Great things happen when we work together. As a small charity, we know our limits. As part of challenging and changing attitudes to, and behaviours around, mental wellbeing, we need to be raising
Today’s theme looks at what is happening around the UK, highlighting support and services available that aim to make the industry resilient for what the future holds. We start by speaking to Gyles Dawson from Rural Support, the farm support charity for Northern Ireland… Tell us about the role each individual farmer plays in the
Northern Lights – shining bright and leading the way By Allister Nixon, CEO of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, a registered charity and organiser of the Great Yorkshire Show. This week’s Mind Your Head campaign from the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) is such an important initiative, and the Yorkshire Agricultural Society is delighted to be
Resilience is usually defined as positive adaptation despite adversity and, in this blog, the Royal Countryside Fund outline the activities and programmes they have introduced to build resilience in farming families and communities. At the Royal Countryside Fund, we understand the immense uncertainty and current pressures facing family farms across the UK. From extreme weather