Our Objectives
Our mission: To provide a voice and supportive services for care farmers, to inspire decision makers and to develop policies and actions that will support care farming in the UK.
Our vision: To see thriving farms and landscapes providing social, educational, therapeutic and development opportunities.
The National Care Farming Initiative seeks to fulfill its vision by raising the awareness and credibility of care farming in the UK.
We will do this through:
- raising awareness and facilitating mutual support
- listing care farms in our online directory
- arranging networking events and opportunities to share best practice
- advocacy, lobbying and government policy development
- signposting to other organisations who can help
- building the evidence base by encouraging research
- leading a national campaign to raise the profile of care farming in the UK