On Monday, May 20, our Livery hosted a City Farms fundraising lunch in the splendid location of the Honourable Artillery Company, welcoming invited guests drawn from City-based firms and organisations.
This inaugural event, hosted by Master Guy Brogden, who welcomed guests alongside Gemma Cooper of Surrey Docks Farm and Chris Pound of Hackney Farm, raised awareness of and promoted the valuable community work carried out by the 12 City Farms, and the benefits and opportunities to City firms who invested in supporting City Farms.
There are 12 Inner-City farms in London (32 nationally) who grow crops and rear livestock. These are charity farms that are run along commercial lines for the benefit of their local communities by engaging with young people, people who have social welfare challenges, and helping visitors to understand more about farming and where food comes from. City Farms collectively welcome over 400,000 visitors per year.
Over the past few years our Livery Company has also organised and funded visits by young people to working commercial farms in the countryside and this has been a great success. This inaugural lunch was a great success in expanding our activity by engaging with London corporate companies to offer a charity experience for their staff to do occasional work at one of the City Farms. Firms have already been engaged to help with feeding and mucking out the animals, planting and harvesting crops or engaging with the farm attendees.
With huge thanks to Carter Jonas, we now have a short video highlighting the excellent work City Farms do for many people in their local community. This link will take you to the video; https://vimeo.com/944421309/5fb438ee6b?share=copy
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