Funding to Support Rural Development Projects

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust is offering grants of between £1,000 and £50,000 for organisations working in agriculture, rural development, and insurance across the UK to deliver projects and activities across one or more of the Trust’s main objectives:

To advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information concerning agriculture.
To advance the education of young people within rural areas.
To relieve poverty within rural areas.
To promote the benefit and social welfare of inhabitants of rural communities by associating together with the inhabitants and local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education and leisure.
To promote research into agricultural-associated activities.
To advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information concerning insurance.

Priority will be given to larger initiatives that would have a significant impact on rural communities, as well as initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas.

Trustees meet twice a year to consider applications, typically in June and November.

The next deadline for applications is 24 May 2024.

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