Charity News

Longfields Insurance has launched a Christmas campaign, ‘The World is Better with You in It’, to raise funds for the rural mental health charity YANA, and to remind farmers that they are valued and supported.

RSABI is celebrating six months of its successful fundraising initiative, The Farmers’ Lotto, which helps fund the charity’s outbound emotional support calls, a vital service that costs around £40,000 a year to deliver, with the amount continuing to grow. 

Rumenco will roll out its pink Lifeline Lamb and Ewe buckets following an “overwhelmingly positive” fundraising result. The campaign launched in 2024 in aid of the Pink Ribbon Foundation has already raised over £21,000 in donations.

Agricultural machinery dealer Thurlow Nunn Standen has raised over £25,000 for Dementia UK through a charity auction of a 1971 Massey Ferguson tractor. 

Over half a million pounds fundraised by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust will be allocated to 14 rural causes across the UK.

Billy Kitcher will drive his 1954 Fordson Major tractor from John O’Groats to Land’s End for mental health charity #Willdoes.

A tractor run organised by Sam Brown, 27, who has cerebral palsy and is a full-time wheelchair user, is now in its 12th year, raising vital funds for a rural support charity.

The Perthshire community has been invited to take part in the ‘Only Fools, No Horses’ event, which will showcase celebrities and well-known farming figures racing against each other during an evening of great fun and food.

The Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland has concluded this year’s Presidential Initiative, raising £137,000 for agricultural charities.

The Pink Ladies Tractor Road Run 2025 has so far raised over £30,000 for breast cancer research.

The Thurlow Nunn Group has raised £16,000 for Dementia UK during its classic car treasure hunt. 

A very special, brand new farming fundraising challenge is set to take place at Scone Palace in Perthshire this September. The event will be supported by the Emmerdale cast.