Farmers in Ayrshire will have the opportunity to benefit from free business support worth around £120,000.

The Royal Countryside Fund is working in partnership with agricultural charity RSABI to deliver free workshops, business skills, environmental training and one-to-one support to farming families via its 2023/24 Farm Resilience Programme.

Livestock farming families in the region will benefit from around £2,000 of support per family business.

The programme is open to dairy and livestock family farm businesses and takes a whole-farm and whole-family approach.

Since 2016, the Farm Resilience Programme has supported farming families throughout the UK to improve their business performance and make real changes on-farm. 

Keith Halstead, executive director of the Royal Countryside Fund, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with RSABI to deliver the RCF’s Farm Resilience Programme in Scotland in 2023/24. 

“It was a pleasure to welcome the programme co-ordinators from Scotland and elsewhere in the UK to a London workshop to familiarise them with the programme and its objectives for the coming year.  

“I would encourage family farms in Ayrshire to find out more about the programme to see if it can help them plan the future of their farming enterprises.” 

The Ayrshire coordinator can be contacted via email at k50mitchell@gmail.com, and more information can be found at www.royalcountrysidefund.org.uk.