Welcome to our website directory

If you are a farmer or landowner interested in finding out about this project please read the introduction.

• Contact Jo Britton either through the contact form or by writing/phoning her at:
  
  Jo Britton
  Hampshire Country Learning
  Sparsholt College
  Wichester
  Hampshire
  SO21 2NF
  
  Telephone: 01962 797368
  Mobile: 07709 399452
  
  Jo will offer you help and advice. This would include a field visit. It may be that a school contact can be made directly or one or more of the following options taken up:

• Register with Farms for Schools, a network of farms that are open to the public but also host school visits.  FFS offers help and advice, particularly with health and safety issues.  It produces a county based directory and provides members with a biannual newsletter, keeping members up to date with current issues.  It is currently developing an assurance or inspection scheme.
  The Farms for Schools web site is www.farmsforschools.org.uk

• Contact your FACE Regional Education Coordinator ( REC ), Geraldine Pullen.  Her role is to promote food and farming and make contacts between schools and farms.  She may have lists of schools which are undertaking environmental studies who need appropriate visits.  She also visits schools directly, giving talks to children and promoting farm visits. Visit the FACE in the directory for more information. Contact Geraldine Pullen - 01273 857692 or e-mail her.

• Contact The Country Trust.  This charity uses farms, forests, moors, lakes and estates to host visits for schools from towns and cities.  The trust deals with administration and has its own field officers who help to plan and conduct the visit. Contact Rodney Stanford - 01728 604818.

• Contact the Womens Farming Union ( WFU ). They do not have an active branch in Hampshire, however they do train farmers and their wives for their speaker’s panel, Farming in the Classroom.  This training identifies the needs of the National Curriculum and covers basic presentation skills which allows you, the expert to put your knowledge across effectively to children in the classroom. The WFU receives requests from schools and matches their members to those requests. Contact the WFU – 024 76693171 or e-mail them.

You may be interested to look at the following organisation details:

The Committee for Rural Hampshire