Charity News

Alongside machinery and market discussion, the Claas Manns Expo at the dealer’s Saxham headquarters also marked the culmination of a year-long charity fundraising effort, with staff raising £21,850 in support of prostate cancer awareness and care.

John Deere has announced that The Farming Community Network (FCN) will be its official charity partner for 2026. 

Cheffins has marked its 200-year anniversary by raising £270,596 for charity and exceeding its original bicentenary fundraising pledge by over £70,000.  

Welsh farmer Neil Johnson is attempting a Guinness World Record by running a half marathon in his wellies. 

Scottish farming and crofting families who have been severely hit by the ongoing impact of the extreme wintry conditions in parts of Scotland are encouraged to apply for support via a Snow Impact Fund. 

The chairman of the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies), James Chapman MBE, announced that he is hanging up his yellow wellies this month.  

“Trekking to Everest Base Camp has long been a dream of mine,” said James Brown of Brown&Co, who is currently making his way up the world’s highest mountain to raise funds for RABI.

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.