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Hands on soil

How Planting Your Pants can save our soil

8 February 2023

The importance of soil and how Planting Your Pants can help

Policy
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Update on ELMS

6 December 2022

Positive update but clarity and details required.

Campaigns
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Plant Your Pants!

5 December 2022

Access FREE resources and together we'll prove that soil is much more than mud!

Campaigns
Children digging through soil

Coming up! Get ready to plant your pants!

13 October 2022

On 5 Dec, World Soil Day, we will be launching our new soil health campaign.

Campaigns
Sheila Dillon

The Country Trust’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal

23 June 2022

Sheila Dillon from BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme launches our appeal.

Policy
Campaigns
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Policy: Government Food Strategy - our response

14 June 2022

To achieve real change then children should get out of the classroom and explore

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By speaking out and influencing government policy our aim is to ensure that food, farming and countryside opportunities and experiences are available to ALL children, especially those who are persistently disadvantaged.

We are asking Government to join up, work across departments and take a creative approach to ensure we achieve the much-needed shift in food culture to create a sustainable, resilient food system that supports people to live healthy lives. Food, farming and countryside opportunities and experiences should be part of a fair education for all children.

We are calling for..

  • Every child to have the opportunity to visit a real working farm, to discover through first-hand experience where their food comes from
  • Every child to have the chance to discover the connections between the food they eat, their own health and the health of the planet
  • Every child to be able to develop the confidence and curiosity to explore the natural world