It is a freezing winter night and in the darkness of a Worcestershire farmyard it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose to meet here for a social. Serena Marshall gets out of the car and ponders her next move. There is very little light coming from the farm buildings and no signs of life. Where can the young people be?
Marshall is county youth worker for the Worcestershire branch of Young Farmers' Clubs, the backbone of many rural communities since the first club was founded in Devon in 1921. Nowadays it's a rather forgotten organisation in youth work circles. In today's UK, only a tiny percentage of the population works on the land and farming is a marginalised way of life. And with high house prices and poor public transport, many young people have left rural villages in search of education, jobs and housing.
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