Countryside Agri-Rural Partnership
Countryside Agri-Rural Partnership are offering a Farm Family Option - Agricultural Business Mentoring.
Agricultural business mentoring will give you the opportunity to review your current position, address your main issues and concerns and to identify options and opportunities to make a real difference to the future quality of life for you and your family.
What is Agricultural Business Mentoring?
Agricultural Business Mentoring is an opportunity to discuss your farm business needs and circumstances openly, and in confidence, with an experienced mentor who through their skills and experience, is in a position to be of positive help to you. The mentor will be able to discuss the aspects of your farm business that are of particular concern to you, and support you in identifying options that meet the needs of the farm business and your family. Together, you can agree a plan of action to move forward.
This might include:
- Farm and off farm income
- Farm systems and practices, and related investments
- Succession/ retirement planning
- Wills & inheritance issues
- Improving skills levels
- Off-farm employment or diversification
This programme will encourage you to take a positive but realistic look at your options.
What will happen during the mentoring process?
Once your application is approved, a mentor will be assigned to you and will arrange to meet you, at a suitable time, at your farm business. To make the process a success, it is important that you spend the necessary time, (up to four sessions of two hours each), and to involve as many members of the farm family as possible in the process.
You will also be encouraged to give some thought, before and between mentoring sessions, to the main areas of concern or issues you wish to consider. Relevant worksheets and questionnaires can be provided to help your thinking. The more you put into the mentoring process the greater the benefits will be for you and your family.
What they can offer
- Free one to one, independent and confidential, support from an experienced mentor
Help to identify potential sources of additional income - Assistance with succession/ retirement planning through financial support for Legal or Financial advice (?250 per farm business)
- Referral to relevant organisations/ agencies for further support (e.g. specialist advisors & training
providers) - Assistance with identifying training and development opportunities
- Financial support for skills training for all the family
- A positive Action Plan, identifying options for the way forward for both the farm business and individual farm family members
Applying for support
Farm business ID holders interested in agricultural business mentoring should complete an application form and return it to Countryside Agri-Rural Partnership at the address detailed below.
Application forms are also available for downloading from
www.countrysiderural.co.uk
To submit or request an application form or for further information, contact:
Countryside Agri-Rural Partnership
97 Moy Road
Dungannon
Co Tyrone
BT71 7DX
Tel: 0845 026 7539
E-mail: mentoring@countrysiderural.co.uk
Web: www.countrysiderural.co.uk