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Funding for Rural Community & Education Projects (UK)
The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust offers grants for initiatives that support charities in the UK working in agriculture and rural development. The Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives that meet the following criteria:
- Advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information about agriculture
- Advance the education of young people within rural areas
- Relieve poverty within rural areas
- Promote the benefit and social welfare of rural community inhabitants by associating with the inhabitants and local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education and leisure.
- Promote research into agriculture-associated activities
- Advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information in relation to insurance provided that the charity may also promote, facilitate and support any such other purposes as are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales
Grants range from £1,000 to £75,000. Larger grants are used to support organisations that significantly impact rural communities nationally.
Projects funded in the past have ranged from City farms, Federations of Young Farmers Clubs and farming Community Networks.
The next closing date for applications is the 24th April 2026.
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6th February 2026