Trees for Farms: Farmer Groups Fund

Trees for Farms works better when farmers talk to each other. If you’re part of a farming cluster, group or network, we’ll fund you to bring people together: farm walks, expert speakers, peer-to-peer learning, and to promote what trees can do for working land.

Each group will be offered up to £3,000 to bring together an active or newly formed group of farmers to host at least one high quality event, gather evaluation data and produce a simple event report. They will also be asked to act as a contact point to refer to Western Forest’s Better Off With Trees offer.

• Be farmer focussed with at least 15 attendees
• Include an expert speaker or farm walk
• Be held at a suitable venue for the weather
• Be within the Western Forest priority area
• Feature a Western Forest advisor to promote Better Off With Trees
• Offer a substantial, locally sourced meal
• Arrange suitable insurance
• Gather requested data including photographic and video evidence

Groups will benefit from a fully funded opportunity to come together and network as well as learn about trees on farms.

Clusters or groups must be an active or newly forming group of farmers situated in the Western Forest region. They can be a geographically based farmer cluster or a common interest group such as a specific farming sector.

Please email Western Forest’s Programmes Manager, Louis Devenish, at info@westernforest.org.uk