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Charitable Trust: Recent Initiatives

Supporting community projects and services

The Trust provides charities with grants to support the running costs of various projects and services.

The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust is an independent charity NFU Mutual set up in 1998 to support other charities and organisations working in the interests of agriculture, rural communities and the countryside, and it’s one of the main ways NFU Mutual support good causes that operate nationally. Since it was first set up, the Trust has distributed donations totalling more than £10.9m and made a positive difference to education, research, social welfare and poverty relief. 

Find out more below.

Supporting vital services in 2025

The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust has announced its donations for 2025 amount to more than £1.2m. The funding will help to deliver a range of initiatives for 28 good causes, including rural poverty relief, helping small farming businesses to thrive, educating and mentoring young people, and supporting social welfare for rural communities.

The organisations benefitting from the donations during 2025 are:

  • Addington Fund
  • Câr-y-Môr
  • Day One Trauma Support
  • Emergent Generation CIC
  • FareShare
  • Farms for City Children
  • Farmstrong Scotland
  • The Farming Community Network
  • Gareth Raw Rees Memorial Scholarship
  • Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF)
  • National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs (NFYFC)
  • NFU Education
  • Nuffield Farming Scholarship
  • Oxford Farming Conference
  • RABI
  • Royal Highland Education Trust
  • RSABI
  • Romodels
  • The Royal Countryside Fund
  • Royal National Institute of Blind People
  • Rural Support
  • Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs
  • SistersIN
  • UK Sepsis Trust
  • Ulster Farmers’ Union Open Farm Weekend
  • The Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (Wales YFC)
  • Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust
  • Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster

Our work to advocate the work of supported causes

In addition to giving financial donations, we look for opportunities to advocate the work of supported causes by championing key issues through awareness campaigns and events. Find out about some of our recent advocacy initiatives below:

Support for FareShare

Since 2021,  the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust donated a total of £500,000 to FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity tackling food waste to support social good.

Find out more about the Trust’s support for FareShare

Support for the UK Sepsis Trust

In 2023, NFU Mutual launched an awareness campaign in partnership with The UK Sepsis Trust, following a £70,000 donation made by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust in 2022. The campaign supports the charity’s vital work and is sharing key information about sepsis symptoms with the farming community. The latest donation from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust in 2025 will enable this important awareness activity to continue. Plans for this partnership will be announced in the coming months.

Find out more about the Trust’s support for the UK Sepsis Trust

Support for Samaritans

Samaritans has received donations from the Charitable Trust since 2020, totalling £315,000. This has supported Samaritans to reach those most at risk and those in rural communities. As part of this support, we’ve been proud to champion the charity’s awareness campaigns, like Brew Monday, by encouraging our people to reach out to each other over a comforting hot drink. 

In addition to charitable donations, through NFU Mutual’s Customers with Additional Needs (CWAN) programme, we’re also working with Samaritans to organise and develop a range of empathy training sessions for employees and the Agency Network. 

Find out more about the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust's support for Samaritans’ ‘Our Farming, Our Future’ project in Wales during 2024 and 2025:  Our Farming, Our Future | Samaritans Wales

Support for The Royal Countryside Fund

NFU Mutual has been a long-standing supporter of The Royal Countryside Fund and since 2020, the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust has donated £395,000 to the charity to support its Farm Support Groups and their future farming/ resilience programmes.

For a number of years, NFU Mutual has also been hosting receptions for the charity at Summer agricultural shows to extend support for the charity by aiding the recruitment of farmers to its farm resilience initiatives. In 2025, NFU Mutual is proud to have hosted The Royal Countryside Fund on its stand at Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland. At the reception, local farmers could hear first-hand about the charity’s farming support programmes. There was also the opportunity for guests to meet other farmers and advisers in their region.

Find out more about The Royal Countryside Fund and its farm resilience iniatives. 

 To explore more about the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust please visit our main information page.