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SUPPORT SERVICE DIRECTORY
Rural Support
Location: Northern Ireland
Tel.No: 0800 138 1678
Website: www.ruralsupport.org.uk
Email:
About: Rural Support provides a listening and signposting service for farmers and farming families across Northern Ireland through its support-line. They also provide various programmes and mentoring support to help with farming challenges, financial concerns and personal issues such as bereavement and farm succession. Support line Mon-Fri 9am to 9pm.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Physical Health
Helpline
RSABI
Location: Scotland
Tel.No: 0809 1234 555
Website: www.rsabi.org.uk
Email: helpline@rsabi.org.uk
About: Provides emotional, practical and financial support to individuals and their families across the agricultural sector in Scotland including farming and crofting. The RSABI helpline is available every day of the year from 7am to 11pm. Also have live chat online and email: helpline@rsabi.org.uk.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
Mental Health
Physical Health
Counselling
Helpline
Training
Change Mental Health
Location: Scotland
Tel.No: 0808 8010515
Website:
Email: advice@changemh.org
About: The National Rural Mental Health Forum is of part of the Change Mental Health Network. The National Rural and Islands Mental Health Forum is a strong, dedicated network of hundreds of organisations from third, private and public sectors, with an outreach to over 500,000 people in rural Scotland. The Forum delivers regular seminars in partnership with guest speakers from organisations part of the network to speak about key topics and issues related to mental health and wellbeing across rural and island communities in Scotland. Advice line open Mon to Fri 10am to 4pm (closed for lunch 12.30-1.30).
Offering:
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Helpline
Scottish Rural Network
Location: Scotland
Tel.No:
Website: www.ruralnetwork.scot/
Email:
About: The Scottish Rural Network (SRN) encourages rural development by sharing information, ideas and good practice. We work with, and for, anyone who lives, works or has an interest in rural and island Scotland. The SRN is supported by a team in the Scottish Government called the Network Support Unit.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
The DPJ Foundation
Location: Wales
Tel.No: 0800 587 4262 (or text 07860 048799)
Website: www.thedpjfoundation.co.uk
Email:
About: The DPJ Foundation provides support to those who work in the agricultural sector with a 24hr call line for support and access to fully funded counselling across Wales. Bespoke training packages.
Offering:
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Counselling
24 hour helpline
Training
Tir Dewi
Location: Wales
Tel.No: 0800 121 4722
Website: www.tirdewi.wales
Email: info@tirdewi.co.uk
About: Volunteers work with farmers and their families to help make sense of problems, provide practical support and solutions and partner with other organisations where it would be helpful. They have a Freephone Helpline and visit farms to spend time getting to understand the issues and provide the support needed. Helpline available 7am to 10pm.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Helpline
Addington Fund
Location: England & Wales
Tel.No: 0800 138 1678
Website: www.addingtonfund.org.uk
Email: help@fcn.org.uk
About: The Addington Fund has five clear areas of operation: disaster reflief on farm when animal welfare is at risk, retirement homes for farmers, affordable rural homes for young agriculturalists, essential goods for farm workers and a young entrant's scheme to bring first generation farmers into the industry. Partners with the FCN under 'Farming Help' which offers a Helpline 7am to 11pm. Forage Aid is now part of Addington Fund and operates the disaster relief grants.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
Mental Health
Physical Health
Helpline
RABI
Location: England
Tel.No: 0800 1884444
Website: www.rabi.org.uk
Email: help@rabi.org.uk
About: RABI provides financial support, practical care and guidance to farmers, farmworkers and their dependents. Every application is treated on it's own merits and handled with compassion and discretion. Their mission is that no member of the farming community should ever face adversity alone. 24hr helpline plus online 'click & chat' mental wellbeing service which partners with two platforms - Kooth for 11-17yrs, and Qwell for adults.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
Mental Health
Physical Health
Counselling
24 Hour helpline
Training
The Farming Community Network
Location: National
Tel.No: 0808 8010515
Website:
Email: www.farmwell.org.uk
About: A charity and voluntary organisation that provides practical and pastroral support to farmers and farming families through difficult times. Helpline open 7am to 11pm, plus email helpline. Volunteers provide free, confidential support to anyone who seeks help. Also runs the FarmWell website which provides support information aound health, wellbing, business resilience and planning, farm safety and rural crime. Working in partnership with MacMillan Cancer Support to deliver the Rural Communities Cancer Project.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Physical Health
Helpline
Training
Farm Safety Foundation
Location: National
Tel.No:
Website: www.yellowwellies.org
Email:
About: Set up in 2014 to preserve and protect the physical and mental wellbeing of the next generation of farmers (16-40). Over the years, the foundation's research, unique education programme, and annual farm safety week and mind your head campaigns have helped to address risk-taking and the stigma of poor mental health in the agricultural sector.
Offering:
Mental Health
Physical Health
Training
Perennial
Location: National
Tel.No: 0800 0938543
Website: www.perennial.org.uk
Email:
About: They provide free and confidential advice, support and financial assistance to people of all ages working in, or retired from, horticulture. Helpline open 9am to 4.30pm Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri and 10am to 4.30pm on Wed. Health and Wellbeing App also available.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
Mental Health
Physical Health
Helpline
Training
The Gamekeepers Welfare Trust
Location: National
Tel.No: 0300 1233088
Website: www.thegamekeeperswelfaretrust.com
Email:
About: Helping with information and support on a wide variety of issues including health retirement, redundancy, housing and employment issues but first and foremost as a confidential listening service. Financial grants for gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies and their families in times of hardship, ill health and retirement. Educational grants area available for young people.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Financial Support
Mental Health
Physical Health
24 Hour Helpline
Training
Farm Cornwall
Location: Cornwall
Tel.No: 01736 367589
Website:
Email: office@farmcornwall.co.uk
About: Farm Cornwall offers sound, practical, realistic and confidential advice supporting farmers and their families across the whole of Cornwall. The charity provides advice on finance and debt control, agricultural advice, succession planning, government and grant aid, welfare and mental health support and a farm women's group. Helpline and email for support. Runs events.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Physical Health
Helpline
Farming Health Hub
Location: Cornwall
Tel.No: 0809 1234 555
Website: www.farminghealth.co.uk
Email:
About: Imagine If Partnership took over the running of FHH from Duchy Cornwall. Partnered with Help@hand community to provide a digital signposting tool for the farming community that links to a local network. New website 'accidentalcounsellors.co.uk'??
The Farming Health Hub joins together organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors to provide advice, support and guidance to farming communities in local venues, such as livestock markets and pop up venues. The Hub provides confidential advice around Physical Health, Mental Health and Business Health to farmers and their families in their day-to-day lives.
Offering:
Business Advice
Financial Advice
Mental Health
Physical Health
Counselling
YANA (You Are Not Alone)
Location: East Anglia
Tel.No: 0300 323 0400
Website: www.yanahelp.org
Email: helpline@yanahelp.org
About: Help for those involved in agriculture and other rural businesses in East Anglia affected by stress and depression. Helpline Mon to Fri 10am to 1pm, also email.
Offering:
Mental Health
Counselling
Helpline
Training
We Are Farming Minds
Location: Herefordshire
Tel.No: 0808 802 0070 or text: 07786 203130
Website: www.wearefarmingminds.co.uk
Email:
About: We Are Farming Minds is a registered charity, set up to help raise mental health awareness in the rural communities of Herefordshire and support the wellbeing of farmers across the land. Fully funded counselling services. Social events & mental health awareness training.
Offering:
Mental Health
Counselling
24 Hour Helpline
Traning
Samaritans
Location: National
Tel.No: 116 123
Website: www.samaritans.org
Email: jo@samaritans.org
About: Helpline provision 24hr plus email help and online chat (pilot). Some areas offer face to face.
Offering:
Mental Health
Physical Health
24 Hour Helpline
