Rural Support

The Farm Support Charity for Northern Ireland

Rural Support is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee established in 2001. We provide a range of programmes and services for farmers and farm family members in support of their farm business and personal wellbeing, all accessible via a confidential Support Line which is open Monday to Friday 9am to 9pm. (Freephone 0800 138 1678).  

These include:

• On-farm Business Support
• Farm Business Programmes
• Person Centred Support
• Bereavement and Loss Support
• Support for Older Farmers
• Social Farming Support Service
• Agri Sector Training

The farming community in Northern Ireland continues to experience challenge and adversity year on year due to a range of contributing factors.

Rural Support strives to be proactive in supporting farming families with these challenges by providing high quality programmes and services which offer a holistic and tailored approach to complex and diverse issues affecting farming families and their businesses.

Rural Support is extremely grateful to Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust for nominating us as the chosen charity for this prestigious event. 

We work in partnership with a range of organisations across the agri, public, private and community and voluntary sectors to deliver our services and programmes and rely on charitable donations to strive to support as many of the NI farming community as possible.

Our agri sector continues to experience unprecedented challenges and by supporting our work you are helping us to deliver and develop proactive, innovative, evidence- based programmes and services, delivered by professionals who care, responding to what our farming community needs and supporting to secure the sustainability and resilience of our industry.

To find out more about the work of Rural Support visit www.ruralsupport.org.uk or Freephone 0800 138 1678.