Addington Fund Announces Incorporation of Cheshire Rural Trust
Jul 26, 2011 - 12:53 PM
A new partnership between farming charities Addington Fund and Cheshire Rural Trust will be officially launched at Nantwich Show this week.
Over the last twelve months Addington have been in talks with the trustees of the Cheshire Rural Trust (CRT), an organisation that has many similar attributes to the Addington Fund and in a bid to cut the operational costs of the CRT the charities will now work together.
Addington will continue to recognise the CRT as a restricted fund and work to increase the level of fundraising and awareness of the grants that they can offer and of what Addington can provide through their Strategic Rural Housing Scheme. Every penny of every donation Addington receives reaches the families for whom it is intended – they do not use any donated income to cover any running cost whatsoever.
Ian Bell, Fund Director comments “It is often assumed, quite wrongly, that Cheshire is a very wealthy county and that the need for organisations like CRT and Addington is unnecessary.”
He continues “It is a very fine line between a farm business succeeding or not succeeding, and it is often a factor outside of the control of the family; the collapse of Dairy Farmers of Britain, Bovine Tb or a broken arm that prevents you milking cows. We are particularly keen to assist the essentially viable farm business cope with a short-term problem.”
Addington’s housing initiatives are in place to cope with families having to leave their farms because of more serious and long-term problems; fatal accidents, heart attacks, suicide and cancer are just a few instances that the Charity sadly sees too often. More recently they have also provided opportunities to farming families to acquire their retirement home through a shared-equity arrangement.
It is hoped that the incorporation of the charities will not only reduce costs but increase the awareness of problems faced by faming families in Cheshire.
The launch event will take place on the Strutt and Parker Stand at Nantwich Show on the 27th July 2011.