Mental Health 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.

The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir has announced the release of a new seven-inch single, ‘The Banned One’, created to support mental health within the farming community. 

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. 

The Rural Minds Project has been launched to raise awareness and understanding of mental health in UK agriculture through an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience. 

Today is World Mental Health Day, and mental health is rightly a growing topic of discussion in the farming community.

An Aberdeenshire farmer has opened up about his battle with depression and is now sharing a message of hope and positivity with fellow farmers across the country. 

A North-East farm worker, Duncan Maclellan, has completed a 370-mile challenge travelling from John O’Groats to Gretna Green on foot, raising funds for RSABI and shining a light on mental health in the farming community. 

The Baton of Hope, created to inspire hope and drive action in suicide prevention, will be carried through Norwich for the first time next month as part of a UK-wide movement. 

Orkney farmer Charles Gorn, who passed away in November 2023, has left a £470,000 legacy from his estate to RSABI, an agricultural charity that supports the Scottish farming community.

Employees from Origin Soil Nutrition collectively walked 1,474 virtual miles between the company’s 11 UK fertiliser production sites in a Walk to Wellness initiative, with all proceeds donated to agricultural charity, YANA.  

Friends and family of Borders farmer Neil Stewart have completed a 100-mile walk in his memory and raised over £88,000 to spread mental health awareness in the farming community.

A North-East farm worker, Duncan Maclellan, is more than halfway through his challenge to cover John O’Groats to Gretna Green by foot to raise funds for RSABI and shine a light on mental health in the farming industry.