Economic and community development Charities That specialise in Rural and farming areas

A sustainable-living charity, working in the community and operating a residential centre at the heart of a 132 acre organic farm, where a diverse range of managed and natural habitats provide the setting for a wide range of courses, bespoke workshops and eco-adventures.Children & adults learn new skills, develop a deeper understanding of the countryside and a more sustainable approach to life.

Busoga Trust is a UK based, Christian charity which has as its principal aims the raising of money for water development projects in the rural areas of Uganda with a major emphasis on sanitation and health education.

The Trust supports a broad range of charitable causes in and around Berkshire including education, sport, the arts, community, churches and faith groups, social welfare and medical support, agriculture and conservation, and the ArmedForces.

Self Help Africa (UK) is an international development, non-governmental organisation. Its main purpose is the assistance and advancement of people in need in less developed areas of the world. We have expertise in small-scale farming. We work with farmers to help them grow/sell more food, diversify their income/diets, make their livelihoods more sustainable and resistant to external shocks.

To operate the business of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming Limited, the objects of which are to preserve for the benefit of the Nation, agricultural machinery, equipment, buildings, documents and livestock of educational and historical interest and to maintain and operate a museum for the purpose of exhibiting to the public such items of educational or historical interest.

THE PRESERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF ANY AMENITY OR LAND THAT MAY BE VESTED IN THE CHARITY OR IS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURAL OR SILVICULTURAL INTEREST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONSERVATION OR FIELD CENTRE OR MUSEUM FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.ASSIST OR PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE ORGANISATION OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

To promote industry in general and in particular to promote rural industry and agriculture, and to such end generally to improve it in all its branches, to encourage skill and industry in it and in all trades, crafts, and professions connected with it. The most important financial commitment, at the present time, is the organisation hosting and delivery of the Hertfordshire County Show.

THE HOLDING OF AN ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL AND HORSE SHOW ON FIRST SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER AND ON FARM COMPETITIONS IN A RESTRICTED AREA THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC.

Touring theatre company established in 1982, bringing high-quality productions of new writing to mainly rural towns and villages in the East of England. Also schools tours and workshops, site-specific performances and occasional national tours, including performances in London and at the Edinburgh Festival.

To promote agriculture, horticulture and forestry and to advance science and research in connection with these subjects for the benefit of the public and to promote the improvement of livestock and the prevention and eradication of disease in animals useful to man in particular in the Isle of Anglesey and other parts of Wales.

To promote, encourage and educate members of the public to improve, protect and preserve the British Countryside by giving nature a helping hand. Founders of the National Wildflower Visitor Centre in 2000.

Reducing the incidence and impact of disadvantage and poverty on people living in rural areas, increasing the capacity of rural communities to manage change for the benefit of all their members, informing and amplifying the voice of rural communities to influence public policy

Pentabus is a contemporary theatre company, producing original plays about the rural world for local and national audiences. Based on a farm in Shropshire, we make a real commitment to the creative health of the countryside, encouraging artists to draw from it and urging communities to participate in it.

Take Art seeks to promote the arts in partnership with all sections of the rural population of Somerset and to advocate the important role of the arts, within a rural and social context, in the development of both the community and the individual.

Supports the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship in India which runs a children's home and a rural hospital. It provides for retired missionaries who had given their lives to this work without salaries.

Promoting and facilitating community-led initiatives to improve the quality of life in the area of operation.

Providing grants for agricultural related causesManaging the Marshal Papworth Overseas Scholarship SchemeOperating events to promote agriculture and rural life Other educational and promotional activities to promote agriculture

ADeC provides arts development services in East Anglia, primarily East Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire. Services include support for community groups, direct promotion of arts events, and arts based project activity, in particular with young people and rural communities

Community First Oxfordshire's aim is to make a real contribution to improving the quality of life for all who live or work in Oxfordshire, particularly those who are disadvantaged. In pursuit of this aim we have two primary objectives: Firstly, to help communities in Oxfordshire to identify and tackle local needs and problems. Secondly, to enable and encourage a variety of voluntary initiatives.

Management, development and maintenance of a public rural park and the operation of an adjoining public "pay and play" golf course.

Provides learning and recreational activities based on farming, the countryside and the wider environment to people living in the East End of London

The aims and objectives of the Charity as stated in the governing documents are broad and,whilst mainly educational,go beyond the principal activity of running a successful Annual Conference.The Conference theme,programme and sponsorship are driven by the Council whose members chair sessions,host speakers and receptions and steward the Conference and the Debate.

The promotion of agriculture for the public benefit by encouraging, promoting and improving the breeding of Simmental cattle in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

To maintain and develope a 45 acre rural park for the public.

THE CHRISTINA NOBLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION CNCF IS A BRITISH REGISTERED NGO ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA. ALIGNED WITH THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, CNCF BREAKS INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE,RURAL CAPITAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES EMPOWERING DISADVANATGED CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES TO ACHIEVE LONG-TERM RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY.