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Welcome to the Staffordshire Young Farmers Website
Keep coming back to keep up with all that's happening in Staffordshire YFC.
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Quick links to contact us...
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The next big things in Staffs YFC...
Saturday 10th March 2012 - 60th Anniversary Dinner Dance
"Diamonds Are Forever" theme. Get more info and booking form here - deadline for bookings is February 20th.
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New Staffs YFC promotional leaflet
Click the thumbnail to see our new promotional leaflet - if you would like a few copies, contact our office!
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Staffordshire Successes
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Staffordshire YFC in National Competitions
Waterhouses YFC did Staffordshire proud again, with their male team taking runner-up, and the girls gaining third place in the National Young Farmers' finals, held at the Royal Berkshire Show.
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At the Malvern Autumn Show, Staffordshire's Cookery team picked up xxx place, and Sammie Wilson brought back the winner's trophy in the Junior Floral Art.
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UEC Sponsored Bike Ride - with a difference!
Congratulations to everyone who took part in this event. The Committee have raised nearly £2000 which is a fantastic achievement.
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Royal Visit
Princess Anne visited the YFC Centre
Young Farmers in Staffordshire celebrated the opening of their new headquarters 26 years ago with a Royal visit from the Princess Royal. Princess Anne returned to the Young Farmers’ office on Tuesday 26th July 2011 as part of a day to celebrate ‘Rural Activities in Staffordshire’. Some of those members involved 26 years ago were there to welcome Her Royal Highness, along with today’s Young Farmers who were keen to demonstrate the skills and activities, which ensure the organisation is sustainable as the rural youth movement of the countryside. The activities the members demonstrated to the Princess included traditional activities such as how to prepare an animal for showing; the art of sheep stock judging; butchery skills cookery skills. Other demonstrations included Tug of War, hedge laying and bricklaying. Other members read a specially written poem to demonstrate their Public Speaking Skills, sang for the Princess and prepared the posy for the Princess. The two youngest members in the Federation presented HRH with the posy and two Staffordshire YFC mugs.
Paul Worrall, County Chairman of Staffordshire YFC said, ‘We had hoped the Princess Royal would come last year to celebrate Staffordshire YFC Centre’s 25th Anniversary, but that was not possible. However, 26 years on it is good to celebrate our many achievements in the YFC movement. What was important to young people 25 years ago is still important today and the opportunity to participate in rural activities, with like-minded people, is as valuable today as it was then. We have lots of fun in Young Farmers, with an opportunity to learn and train, particularly through our Competitions Programme and the Federation’s Development Committee which organise a vast range of activities throughout the year. We had two members of the Staffordshire YFA (Young Farmers Ambassadors) Committee present, to explain about the fantastic opportunities that Young Farmers have to apply for trips abroad and travel the world with the NFYFC Discovery Programme.
There's lots of photos on our Photo Gallery page
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Farmers On Film - Feeding The Olympic Dream
This is a vision inspired by Sarah Gayton who produces “Oatie Biscuits” in North Staffordshire. She has many ideas on how farmers can get their produce on the Olympic Menu but needs our help to succeed. She has created a campaign on Facebook and would like as many members as possible to upload short video clips from their mobile phones, to show support for the campaign. The Olympics is an opportunity for British farmers and producers to show what excellent food we grow and produce. Contact Sarah via her website www.tasteofthemoorlands.co.uk for more information or refer to the details enclosed with your clubs' Action Press.
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Taking care of our finances...
Easy Fundraising
Staffordshire YFC has enrolled onto a website called “Easy Fundraising” and can now benefit from anyone and everyone who shops online.
What do you need to do?
1. Click on the www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/staffordshirefarmers
2. Register yourself as a supporter of Staffordshire YFC
3. Every time you go online to shop ie at ebay, Amazon, Tesco, wherever, just go to that website via the easy fundraising website.
YFC can gain 2.5% from some retailers in commission from your shopping and this is at no cost to you – you pay the same price for your goods as you would normally when you shop online.
Please encourage parents, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters – anyone really, to register and start shopping online this way.
Mobile Phone Recycling
Raise funds for the Federation by recycling your old phones - envelopes available from the County Office.
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A great night out for your club!
The Animal Company, Gate Farm, Sturston, Ashbourne, DE6 1LN.
As seen on "Countryfile". Run by Nathan & Charlotte Anderson-Dixon, the farm has a wide range of trained animals that are used in TV, Film, Advertising, etc. They are are east of Ashbourne on the Belper Road (A517, about 1 – 2 minutes drive out of Ashbourne. Uttoxeter JNFU have visited them, and found it to be a great place to see, and were made very welcome.
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NFYFC Safety Campaign
Young Farmers’ Clubs across England and Wales have pledged their support for a Health & Safety Executive (HSE) campaign to cut the high number of deaths each year from unnecessary farming accidents.
Working in agriculture remains one of the most dangerous ways to make a living. It accounts for around one in five work-related deaths every year, although only 1.5 per cent of the working population is employed in the sector. Across Great Britain, 38 workers lost their lives in farming-related incidents between January and November 2009 and figures for 2008/09 show that 589 people were seriously injured in farming accidents.
Nearly 15,000 farmers have already signed up to the campaign. And NFYFC Vice Chairman James Chapman, who lost his arm in an accident that could have also cost him his life, is calling on all 23,000 YFC members to make a New Year’s resolution to help cut the annual death toll by pledging to come home safe from the fields.
“The National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs has proudly made the promise, to come home safe. Encouraging farmers to work safely has always been one of our key priorities and during 2010 we will be working closely with the HSE to promote the campaign in our clubs across the country.
“I know only too well what can happen when safety isn’t put first. I lost my left arm when it was caught in an unguarded PTO shaft. It happened because I, like many farmers, was working under pressure trying to get a job done as quickly as possible.
“Today I regularly speak to young farmers, using my experience positively as a warning of how important it is that they take the time to consider their safety and what can happen if they don’t,” said James.
Learn more about the Make the Promise campaign and pledge to come home safe at www.nfyfc.org.uk/promise
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The Day The Queen Met Staffordshire YFC
The Queen visited Staffordshire on March 31st 2006 to mark the 800th anniversary of Staffordshire County. As part of her day, she came to the County Showground to meet various people and groups, which included representatives of Staffordshire YFC. There is a full report and pictures here.
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