ABP to assist farming charity with shed as prize at Balmoral Present

Agri-food enterprise, ABP, is marking 25 years at Balmoral Present, which will get underway this week (Could 10-13), with a draw to win a multi-purpose shed and proceeds being donated to a farming charity.

ABP is giving guests to the agricultural present the prospect to win its commerce stand, which this yr is an agriculture shed. The meals group is changing its company marquee with a 21.6m x 15.2m multipurpose shed.

The corporate will host a prize draw the place guests get the prospect to win the shed or a £20,000 money prize, with all funds being raised for Rural Help’s Life Past programme.

ABP Northern Eire managing director and chair of the Life Past steering group, George Mullan stated: “ABP is a powerful supporter of Northern Eire’s largest farming group occasion, the Balmoral Present. We’ve been a platinum sponsor of the present for the previous 10 years.

“Our firm had been a patron of the bereavement help service Embrace Farm Eire for quite a few years. In 2021 we had been delighted to lend our help to get an analogous programme off the bottom in Northern Eire underneath the auspices of Rural Help.

“The donation of our present stand to Rural Help to assist increase funds for the Life Past programme is a development of that dedication,” he added.

Chief government of Rural Help, Veronica Morris, added: “ABP [has] been [a] key supporter of the Life Past Programme because it started, and we are able to’t thank them sufficient for his or her continued dedication to supporting bereaved farming households in Northern Eire.

“The cash raised from this raffle will assist these households to handle their circumstances and their emotions at these occasions of immense strain and misery.” Morris added.

Rural Help Life Past

The Rural Help Life Past programme supplies help for farming households throughout Northern Eire who’ve skilled loss by farm accident, suicide, sudden or anticipated dying.

The programme, which was launched in August 2021, helps with farm enterprise, monetary and technical mentoring help, alongside emotional well being, and bereavement counselling together with trauma help.

All their help is given freed from cost, with the goal of serving to households to navigate their experiences and transfer forwards of their new regular.

This help operates alongside peer-to-peer group actions tailor-made for particular teams, e.g., widows/widowers; mother and father; siblings; members of the family; farm accident survivors and their households.