Are you an enthusiastic and driven individual with good animal husbandry skills and business focus, or are you looking for a farm tenancy in Cornwall? These are some of the new land partnerships available to view on our Matching page. Take a look for more details on opportunities across the UK.

Are you a skilled stock person looking to develop your farming career? We have a new land partnership opportunity on a hill farm in the Welsh Borders with potential for management and ownership options. For further details take a look at our matching pages.

Designed to help participants develop a strong innovative business approach, our farm business academies focus on issues such as business planning, finance, land agreements and marketing.

We have two new academies to offer this February; the first is located in the North East at Kirkley Hall, Ponteland starting on 8^th February with the closing date for applications being 26^th January. The second is in the South West Peak starting on 27^th February with the closing date for applications being 11^th February.

Application forms can be found by following the link to our academy pages.

Keep watching for more information on a third academy in Cirencester coming very soon.

Looking to start or develop a business? Be business ready with one of our academies!

The closing dates for our South West Peak Uplands Academy and North East Agricultural Business Academy have been extended! These academies will start mid-late January 2108 with applications still open. We’re also delighted to announce the launch of another academy in Gloucestershire at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, starting 19th February 2018. Click here for more information on all our academies.

Supported by the Princes Countryside Fund, our Lincolnshire Agricultural Business Academy has now started, full to capacity with 20 delegates, with a great schedule of industry expert speakers and live case studies lined up.  The 11 session learning experience is aimed at anyone looking to start up their own agri business or seeking to expand their existing business skills base.  It is designed to support and develop the next generation of farmers and growers, land managers and land based businesses, helping participants develop a strong innovative business approach, focusing on business planning, structures, finance, marketing and communication skills for the sector.

If you think a Fresh Start Agricultural Business Academy could help you, apply now by going to our academy pages and downloading an application form.

An experienced horticulturalist in East Cheshire is looking for land and a possible business partnership. Go to our matching pages for further information on this opportunity.

Fresh Start will be visiting The Three Counties Farming Conference -Survival in Post Subsidy Britain at the showground in Malvern on 16th November from 2pm. Come and visit our stand where you can find out more about our Land Partnerships Service and how it is helping land owners and entrepreneurs alike to develop their business ideas through land partnerships and new ways of working together. For more details on the show visit the conference website https://www.farmingconference.co.uk.

Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP on 8th November 2017

Land Matching: The Big Conversation is the first conference of its kind and takes place at Chatsworth House on 8th November. Time is running out so don’t miss this opportunity to find out about the merits and challenges of land matching and hear from a range of industry experts and the land matching services for England, Northern Ireland and Wales. You can find out how land matching helps get new farming businesses started, aids business diversification, and can be used as part of succession planning.

To book your place follow this link for more information or email us at info@freshstartlandenterprise.org.uk

Come and join the first conference of its kind, opening up and discussing the merits and challenges of land matching and bringing together a range of industry experts and the land matching services for England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Find out how this helps get new farming businesses started, aids business diversification, and can be used as part of succesion planning.
Where: Chatsworth, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP    When: 8th November 2017
Follow this link for more information and to find out how to book your place.

A new opportunity has been added to our Land Partnerships Service register. A mixed farm in Lincolnshire with 100 suckler cows and followers, mostly pedigree limousins, is looking for someone with good animal husbandry skills for possible share farming agreement. Go our Opportunties page for more information.

Fresh Start Land Enterprise Centre is delighted to be working with the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) to offer new TFA members who are looking for their first tenancy or other agricultural business opportunity, automatic enrolment into the Fresh Start Land Partnership Service at no additional cost (usual annual Land Partnership Service fee £30).

The TFA is the only organisation dedicated to representing the interests of the tenanted sector in England and Wales and provides access to advice, information and support. For more information on membership of the TFA or to join on line go to www.tfa.org.uk or call 0118 930 6130.

Follow this link to find out more about our Land Partnerships Service http://freshstartlandenterprise.org.uk/matching-opportunities/