Examples of the wide range of support that the Benevolent Fund has provided over recent years:

• Support for several farm businesses to ease cash flow and marketing problems for example during TB restrictions.

• Assistance to purchase machinery and equipment.

• Provision of protective clothing for farm-based schoolchildren’s facility.

• During Covid lockdown provision of tutorial support to students from a farming family to enable A level achievement and access to university

• Finance to help with mental support.

• Finance support to help horticultural holding rebuild after storm.

• Assistance for individual to gain postgraduate qualifications in agriculture.

• Support with funeral costs.

• Granting finance to provide extra labour during period of family difficulties.

•  Financing provision of respite care.

• Providing over 50 Christmas hampers to those in the farming and rural communities.