Cash available for British farmers and rural communities hit by floods

The Prince’s Countryside Fund (PCF) will donate £50,000 of its emergency fund to farmers affected by the flooding in Reeth and Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, through farming charity The Addington Fund.

The Addington Fund is also working with Forage Aid to provide forage and bedding to those in need, while the PCF is working with the Dry Stone Wall Association to provide trained volunteers to help rebuild dry stone walls in affected areas.

Severe

PCF director Claire Saunders said: “The flooding in Yorkshire has been localised but is very severe, with farmers having lost hundreds of sheep, miles of dry-stone walls being destroyed, and machinery washed away.”

The Addington Fund said its first concern was to help with dead stock disposal and ensuring animals had enough uncontaminated feed and forage to get through ‘this difficult period’.

Young Farmers from Newport Pagnell YFC, Buckinghamshire, clubbed together to gather donations from local farmers for a forage run to aid those struggling from the flood effects in Yorkshire.

The group arranged for local haulier, CMG, to take the supplies north this week before it was distributed among farmers in the following days.