Responding to the ongoing flooding in the South West

The past few weeks have seen a huge amount of supportive activity from across the country, including the Yorkshire area, in response to the ongoing flooding in the South West. Help has been offered and given by many Businesses, organisations, Churches and individuals for both communities and farmers.

The situation is certainly something which farmers and communities in Yorkshire can relate to.

There is a huge amount of goodwill and good intent, but for the help to be most effective, it should be carefully guided to provide what is needed, when it is needed.

This message, based on information from the National Farmers Union, is an attempt to bring together a summary of how support can be given. The links below give comprehensive details of how help can be given – whether it be cash assistance to the Farming Help Charities (Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, Farming Community Network and The Addington Fund) or in how the farming community can help with donations of animal feed/fodder/bedding etc.

Make a donation

• The Addington Fund is supporting farming businesses by making a contribution towards haulage costs so there is no hold up in getting vital supplies through. Donate here.
•  The Farm Community Network’s volunteers provide practical and emotional support to farmers and farming families affected by severe flooding and, in the longer term, will also be able to help stand alongside people needing business support. Donate here.
• The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution can support farming families in Somerset and elsewhere in England and Wales by giving grants from its Emergency Fund to meet the domestic costs of badly affected farmers with no savings to fall back on. Donate here
• Donations can also be made to the Royal Bath and West Show Society and the Somerset Levels Relief Fund,  which are raising money towards water management and for individual, bespoke support respectively.

For further information see:

Information from the Arthur Rank Centre   (Contains lots of useful links) 

Flooding how you have helped:

How you can help:  (updated regularly)