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Country Trust’s 2020-2021 snapshot

This year, with your help we have provided joyful, enriching opportunities to tens of thousands of children.

Students learning in a playground.

1 January 2022

A message from our CEO, Jill Attenborough. 

This year, with your help we have provided joyful, enriching opportunities to tens of thousands of children.

Forging a connection with the land that sustains us all supports children’s physical, emotional and educational wellbeing in a way that’s desperately needed. But why should any child miss out?

Our ambition now is to provide for children at a totally different scale, and we have a 5 Year Plan to map out this new territory. It’s daunting, but with your help, we know we can do it. 

 

Students learning in a playground.

A snapshot of our 2020-2021 school year

We are proud of what we have achieved in the past year with your help. However, the need for our work is growing. As part of our new 5 year plan, by 2027 we’re aiming to support 120k children per annum… and it starts now.

In 2022 we're striving to support..

  • 25,000 children Farm Discovery
  • 1,500 children Food Discovery
  • 800 children Residentials
  • 36,000 children Farm in a Box

They say it takes a village to raise a child, so to support 10,000s of children through our programmes it takes a small army of farmers, teachers, supporters and lastly funders, who make everything we do possible.

  • Four Winds Trust, John and Pamela Salter Trust,
  • Paul Bassham Charitable Trust, WA Handley Charitable Trust,
  • Sir Hugh and Lady Bell Trust, Merchant Taylors' Company,
  • Zochonis Charitable Trust, Laura Capel Charitable Trust,
  • The Bacon Charitable Trust, I Care Clothing,
  • Benham Charitable Settlement, 29th May 1961,
  • Samuel Story Family Charitable Trust,
  • Mr & Mrs P Rackham Charitable Trust,
  • Lance Coates Charitable Trust, Cottingham Charity Trust,
  • Lord Barnby's Foundation, Steel Charitable Trust,
  • The Carr-Ellison Family Charitable Trust,
  • The Leach Fourteenth Trust,
  • The Roy and Pixie Baker Charitable Trust
  • and the many funders and supporters who wish to remain anonymous.
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