Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme

The Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme offers free business skills training to family dairy and livestock farms across the UK.

Up to 300 farms can join the programme each year and participate in a series of seven workshops which focus on different business skills to maximise profitability and resilience. Topics include business planning, understanding accounts and budgeting, and exploring new opportunities for your farm.

Alongside this every farm receives one-to-one on farm support to take part in a Business Health Check Tool to look at their strengths and weaknesses and benchmark costs against similar farms.

The programme brings together like-minded farms in local groups of between 15 and 20 farm businesses.  It gives families the tools to evaluate their viability and long-term sustainability enabling them to make informed business decisions on their future direction.

The Farmer Network facilitated a group in Brampton in North Cumbria from 2017/18 and farmers from within this group are continuing to meet on a voluntary basis.

We are now working with two new groups at Swaledale and around Kirkby Stephen with workshops starting in January 2019.

The Farmer Network has been asked to coordinate two new Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme groups around Skipton/Ilkley/Otley area

in Yorkshire and around Garstang in Lancashire.  The programme includes a series of seven workshops which focus on different business skills to maximise profitability and resilience including business planning, understanding accounts and budgeting, and exploring new opportunities for the farm.  Every farm receives one-to-one support to take part in a Business Health Check Tool to look at the business’ strengths and weaknesses and to benchmark costs against similar farms.  If you would like to find out more about the programme, please register your interest with the Farmer Network office on 01768 868615 or e mail:  admin@thefarmernetwork.co.uk.