Whittington: Farm for the future business workshop

Find out how the agricultural transition period will affect your farm business and how you can improve its resilience.

This workshop will be led Carolien Samson, Head of Sustainable Banking at Oxbury Bank, and Mel Shipley, Senior Agricultural Relationship Manager.

Oxbury is the first bank of its kind to be set up in the past two centuries. It was founded by bankers, farmers, agricultural businesses and technologists to become the UK’s only bank 100% dedicated to serving the rural economy.

Key topics

• Business sustainability
• What is the financial position of the farm and what does it need to do to remain viable through and beyond the Agricultural Transition Plan (2027)?
• Understanding farm business accounts/costs, including bookkeeping, cashflow and terminology
• What tools are required for future business planning and monitoring your business performance, and where can you access further support?
• Practical steps to implement change (vision and goals) that will suit and benefit your business and family, including business/succession planning
• Understanding the split of rights and responsibilities between landlords and tenants and working together positively

Refreshments will be provided.

This event is supported by AHDB.

Farm for the Future programme

The Royal Countryside Fund (RCF) is working with Myerscough College to deliver the Farm for the Future programme in Lancashire.

The programme is funded by Defra’s Future Farm Resilience Fund, which is designed to provide business and environmental support to farmers and land managers during the early years of the Agricultural Transition Plan in England.

By engaging in a series of free workshops and individual support with trusted local advisors, Farm for the Future is designed to help you understand more about the agricultural transition and how it will affect your farm business.

The offer includes participation in specially tailored workshops, delivered by well-respected industry experts, as well as an on-farm meeting of up to three hours which will focus on your own individual business needs and can be arranged around the kitchen table.

To sign up to this programme of support please attend this event or email farmernetwork@myerscough.ac.uk