Rural Youth Projects 2010

Winner 2010 - Wales Young Farmers' Clubs

Lamb Scheme

The vision for Wales Lamb Scheme project is to support and encourage young people to remain within the farming industry and to offer a stepping for those trying to establish themselves as a supplier of Welsh Lamb. The initiative gives young farmers the opportunity to be part of an innovative programme of training events designed to meet the needs of the members. Training to date has included live to dead grading of lambs, farm visits to encourage and share methods of best practice, a walk the chain day from the abattoir, butchery, packing distribution right through to the supermarket. The training and development opportunities offered to members have helped those involved become more knowledgeable, efficient, skilled and reactive to what the market requires. This support assists in young people taking their businesses forward and helps ensure a vibrant and successful future of farming in rural Wales.

Last Updated (Wednesday, 02 March 2011 12:53)

Runner Up - Finlands Svenska 4H

Handy Home Service - Händig Hemhjälp

In the project of Swedish Speaking 4H in Finland youngsters in rural parts of Itä-Uusimaa run small enterprises which offer services like house cleaning, gardening, shopping and keeping company for people living in the area, mainly for elderly people. The organisation helps them by offering work-shops on practical skills related to minor house work and work-shops on entrepreneurship and by supporting them in their actual work. The project has also established a large cooperation with commercial garden.

Last Updated (Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:19)

Runner Up - Macra na Feirme

Know Your Neighbour Oiche Airneal 2010

In the project of Mevagh Macra in Ireland various community groups organised a festival day to bring together older members of the community with young people. Local musicians, young and old, of all music genres just turned up and played music. Tea and home baking were provided. There was also set dancing, storytelling, guided tours and history workshops explaining Irish culture, art exhibition and demonstration of old tools and machinery that had been kept and skilfully restored. The young members of the Foroige group and Mevagh Macra acted as hosts for the night, giving name tags to all guests and spending time talking with their elderly neighbours.