Project
FarmBuddies
Purpose
To get young people back into education, training and employment
Funding
Around £160 a day for four young people on a one-day per week, 12-week programme, paid to farmers by commissioning organisations
Background
Social enterprise FarmBuddies is part of a movement known as "social farming" or "care farming", where vulnerable young people take part in farm activities such as animal care and food cultivation.
Social farming has been on the rise since the formation of the National Care Farming Initiative in 2005, renamed Care Farming UK in 2011. The body estimates there are now 230 care farms in the UK – 194 in England.
This particular scheme was set up by self-employed accountant and farmer Stephen Sellers in 2008 and has since provided more than 1,500 days of farm placements on six farms in Hampshire, West Sussex, Surrey and elsewhere.
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