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SKILLS
For New Farmers & GrowERS
If you need to brush up on your skills, or are looking for new ones, try the resources below.
If there is something you can't find, get in touch HERE and we'll do our best to help.
We're always looking to grow this list.
Tenant Farmers
Association
Click on the logo to go through to a number of useful videos aimed at tenant farmers and growers. Including, the importance of written agreements, finding and applying for tenancy agreements, problems with short term tenancies and much more.....
Land Skills Fair21 - 24 July, Gloucestershire
Land Skills Fair is a festival for food, land and climate justice. A multigenerational and multicultural skill and knowledge exchange that aims to provide a safe space for everyone to learn from each other and explore different land-based topics and practices.
LWA is partnering with LION (Land In Our Names) to organise the event. Click on the logo below for information and tickets.
Farm491
A Gloucestershire-based technology incubator and innovation space focused on the future of farming and food systems. Based and owned by the Royal Agricultural University they work with entrepreneurs through all their stages of growth. Members receive strategic advice, business coaching, support with raising investment and finding the right talent to build the team, access to new customers and being part of a network of other entrepreneurs.
They are offering reduced 25% off membership (for 1 year) to Gloucestershire-based new farmers and growers in our network. Click on the link below to find out more, and get in touch with us to enquire about this offer.
Landworkers Alliance
Business Support
Find a guide to direct sales and short supply chain models and their management.
A guide to fundraising and case studies, click on the logo below.
Shared Assets
If you're looking to set up a social enterprise or community-led enterprise, Shared Assets have a wealth of information and good tips around leases and agreements that facilitate mutually beneficial land use for social enterprises and landowners.
This resource is especially useful for social enterprises who work with land, since land ownership can also incur high liabilities. For landowners, a good agreement can help make their relationship with the enterprise stable, sustainable and trouble free.
Click on the logo below for more.
