On our first episode of 2022 we speak to four guests about mental health awareness in agriculture.

Firstly, we speak to Sheena Horner, a chilli farmer from Scotland. Sheena founded Run1000, a running event set up to increase awareness of rural mental health and raise money for mental health charities. Having raised over £51,500 for charities including RSABI, DPJ Foundation, Vetlife and YANA, Sheena won the British Farming Hero Award 2021.

Our second speaker, Kate Miles, joins us from the DPJ Foundation. Kate gave us some valuable advice on how we can look after our own mental health and how we can support others. We also hear more about DPJ’s share the load service. Share the Load 0800 587 4262 or text 07860 048799.

Richard Heady, an arable and beef farmer from Buckinghamshire discusses mental health awareness from a farmer’s perspective. Richard is England’s Team Captain for this year’s Run1000 event and tells us how running helps his own mental health.

To close the podcast Alex Phillimore at the Farming Community Network tell us about the causal factors of poor mental health and gives us 10 top tips for better mental health looking forward into 2022!

There is lots of support and help available should you need it from both the DPJ Foundation and FCN as well as a number of other organisations.

YANA https://www.yanahelp.org/ 0300 323 0400

Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/ 0300 123 3393

Rabi https://rabi.org.uk/ 0800 188 4444

Vetlife https://www.vetlife.org.uk/ 0303 040 2551

Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to find out how to claim one BASIS CPD point via the members area on the BASIS website.