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Kids Country Food and Farming Day backed by Barclays volunteers

The East of England Agricultural Society’s Food and Farming day on the 5th July will be getting a helping hand from volunteers at Barclays. The Food and Farming day – which is part of the Society’s education programme Kids Country, will educate children where food comes from and the importance of agriculture

The event is attracting strong interest and within weeks the Society has had to increase the number of school attending. Over 4000 school children around the region will be taking part in the fun at the Showground in July.

Martin Redfearn, national head of agriculture at Barclays said:

Barclays has a proud tradition of supporting our customers and communities in ways other than simply helping them to access finance and other services. I personally have long been a passionate supporter of the East of England Agricultural Society and in particular of its work in helping food buyers and consumers re-connect with where their food comes from, and the farms and farmers who produce it. Once our agriculture team spotted the need for volunteer support at the showground’s children’s day to carry on that great work we sent a message around the organisation to see if anyone wished to help. We had a great response and the Barclays team will work hard to ensure the children have a fun learning experience on the big day

The Society organised the big day as part of its Kids Country education programme and decided to devote the day to educating children about where food comes from and how to value it. During the day children are to get up close and personal to food and animals of all types.

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The event will feature everything from making sausages to climbing into the cab of a combine harvester, handling day old chicks to being alongside a top class professional livestock show. A sheep show, working dogs theatre, gun dogs and gamekeepers will also be there ensuring children go home totally exhausted and with an understanding of just how they should treasure British agriculture.

Paul Tate, project manager of the Society explained: “

I was welcomed to a meeting with a member of the local Barclays Agricultural team to discuss support for our Kids Country programme. I think their manager was taken by surprise as to the range and depth of our plans but within days he was in touch pledging support with volunteers from within Barclays staff. Everything seemed to swing into action and within a few more days we had a list of volunteers which really will make all the difference to delivery of the big day. The range of activities planned seem to be growing weekly and the plan is to have 1000 butter tub ukeleles made and played by children for a grandstand finale

CEO Jeremy Staples said

What Barclays Agriculture is doing for us really will make a difference and we hope to use them as an example for other corporations to get involved in the vital work of promoting and supporting agriculture and rural life

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