c/o Walford & North College, Walford Campus, , Shrewsbury, SY4 2HL Tel: 01939 262106 Mobile: 07967 438516 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] www.ruralhubswm.org.uk

Green Futures 2011

Topics for 2011 What are the changes in Cross Compliance rules??

• Can Cross Compliance failures be avoided?? Livestock Identification and Record Keeping remain the cause of the majority of Cross Compliance failures. In 2009, over 50% of cattle keepers inspected, failed the cross compliance inspection due to discrepancies relating to cattle record keeping and identification.

• NVZ’s in 2011 – What do you need to do now??

• Campaign for the Farmed Environment

All Events Start at 7pm

Monday 7 th February 2011 at Prees Cricket & Recreation Club, Brades Road, Prees SY13 2DX

To book your place call 01939 262106 or email [email protected]

Thursday 24 th February 2011 at Craven Arms Community Centre, Newington Way, Craven Arms, SY7 9PS

To book your place call 0845 3451302

Wednesday 2 nd March 2011 at Edgmond Village Hall, Shrewsbury Road, Edgmond, TF10 8HU

To book your place call 01939 262106 or email [email protected] pS

Horse BeddingBusiness and Feed Link - Business London 2012 Event ‘Carbon and Farming – Turning science into Practice on your Farm’ Online Marketing to Boost Business Sales at 9th February 2011 Shrewsbury Town Football Club, Oteley Road, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ST Beef, sheep and dairy farmers are invited to 9th February 2011, from 9:15am – 1pm attend this free Farming Futures workshop. The workshop will demonstrate the blossoming Is your website attracting visitors? If not, then relationship in agriculture between low carbon maybe it’s time to improve your online marketing farming and business profitability. The day will approach. Have you embarked on using social provide you with the latest insight on why farmers media – or are you just feeling overwhelmed by it should be on the front foot of the climate change all? debate and on how reducing greenhouse gas emissions is good for your bottom line. This action-packed half-day workshop will share tools, tips and ready-made templates so your You will join fellow farmers in three expert-led business can improve its online marketing discussion groups on practical ways to reduce approach and, in turn, increase sales via new and emissions (covering energy and renewables, existing customers. feeding and nutrition, and nutrient and manure management). The workshop will take place at an This workshop is delivered in easy-to-understand organic beef and dairy farm in Shropshire and will bite-sized chunks and ideal for any business include a farm walk. Lunch and refreshments will wanting to enhance its current online marketing be provided. tactics. To register, This FREE event is suitable for businesses email: [email protected] trading 1 year + and have experience in online or call Kate on 020 7324 3671 marketing.

For futher information and to book your place call 0845 1131234 or email [email protected] Discover Local Business Workshop at Craven Arms Community Centre, Newington Way, Craven Arms, SY7 9PS New for 2011 - Ironbridge Farmers’ Market Using, Developing and Marketing Local As part of the Shropshire Farmers’ Markets Produce Project, joining the Project in March 2011 is the 15th February 2011, 10.30am-3pm Ironbridge Farmers’ Market. The session will cover: The Market will be held on the 3 rd Saturday of • Discovering and tasting what is available each month from 10am -2pm in The Square , and where, within the Shropshire Hills area opposite the famous Iron Bridge. • Looking at and sharing examples of best practice with other entrepreneurs If you would like further information about the • Looking at ways of creating and promoting Ironbridge Farmers’ Market please call the an innovative and vibrant business using Markets Team at Telford & Wrekin Council on local produce 01952 384187. • Realising the value of local food and drink as a successful marketing tool. If you would like information about the Farmers’ Markets Project please call Tish For more information and to book, please Dockerty on 01584 872043 contact Jodie Griffith on 01588 674090 or [email protected]

Business Link Business Event A Passion For Rural Business Conference

Guide to Effective Financial Management at 16th February 2011 Park Inn Hotel, Forgegate, Telford, TF3 4NA at 15 th February 2011, from 9:15am – 1pm The Regional Food Academy, College, Edgmond, TF10 8NB. Understanding the importance of effective financial management is key; even if you have an At this WiRE event, the theme of the day is brand accountant, it is absolutely vital to have a handle creation and brand management and includes on the figures that affect your business. advice and guidance on suitable routes to market for varying business types and business sizes. This half-day workshop is designed to give you an understanding of how the numbers behave in the A locally sourced lunch will be provided as part of past, the present and the future, to help you ‘talk the delegate rate with plenty of networking and finance’ with accountants, bank managers and lots of experts at hand to make this a valuable day colleagues. for all. Delegate Rates are £30.00 for WiRE Members and £50.00 for non members. As a result of attending this workshop, you will be able to compile financial Key Performance For further information about this event and to Indicators for your business. book your place, please contact the Marketing and Events Team at Harper Adams University Please bring a simple (not scientific) calculator College on 01952 815338 to gain maximum benefit from this workshop.

www.wireuk.org This FREE event is suitable for businesses trading 1 year + and wanting to improve financial management.

Free Farm Walk For futher information and to book your place

Call 0845 1131234 or email “Wet Grassland Creation and Management for [email protected] Lapwing and Curlew”

Thursday 17 th February 2011 at SPS Online – Register and Use Rednal Farm, Near West Felton, 10.30am

If you register and enrol for SPS Online , you can Followed by a free hot lunch at: track the progress of your 2010 claim and view 12.30pm, the Village Hall, The Cross, West Felton, your Claim or Entitlements Statements. And of SY11 4EH course you will then be set up and ready to make your 2011 application online once the claim period Ideal for farmers with wet ground, considering opens. By using SPS Online Services you can: Higher Level Stewardship or for farmers with • Track Claims existing wet grassland. • View Statements • Make a Claim Booking is essential, please contact: Mags Cousins Applying online can be quicker, easier and more Lapwing Meadows Project Officer (RSPB) reassuring than filling out and posting a paper Tel. 0300 060 0570 application form. Mob. 07540 121 464 Email: [email protected] Now is the time to go online, visit www.rpa.gov.uk/spsonline or call RPA’s Lapwing Meadows Partnership Project Customer Service Centre on 0845 6037777 to register.

Anaerobic Digestion Workshop Farming Futures Thursday 24 th February 2011 Italian Study Visit - Your opportunity to take at part Walford & North Shropshire College Baschurch, Shrewsbury, SY4 2HL Walford and North Shropshire College are running a European mobility project to take a group of Farmers are being encouraged to establish farmers on a study visit to Northern Italy. The two th th anaerobic digestion (AD) plants on their farms. week trip is from 30 April to 14 May 2011 during However, the current support mechanisms for AD which you will visit a range of farm enterprises and appear insufficient to bring about the wide-scale diversification opportunities. There will also be adoption of this energy-from-waste technology, time for some sightseeing/cultural activities. Basic which is widely used elsewhere in the EU. Evidence language training will be provided prior to the trip suggests that AD can enhance the management of but the group will also be accompanied by an livestock farms through improved slurry interpreter. All travel, food and accommodation management, reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) costs are covered by the project. emissions, generation of on-farm energy and reduced watercourse pollution risk due to improved If you would like to take part in this exciting nutrient release from digestate. However, economic opportunity contact Liz Donald viability is linked to capital cost of installation. If on 01939 262154 . farm-scale AD is to become a viable option for livestock farms, attention must be given to This project is funded by the Leonardo Mobility innovative digester design, improved feedstock Programme. handling, ease of plant manufacture and installation, process control and effective energy generation from biogas.

In order to explore these issues, the Royal LEARN TO GRAFT YOUR OWN FRUIT TREES Agricultural Society of and partners have organised a Workshop to be held at Walford & These half day courses, held near Weston Rhyn North Shropshire College. The Workshop, which and run by local orchardist Tom Adams, will cover includes a visit to the College Farm AD plant, will the principles of fruit tree propagation and provide you with up-to-date, practical information on rootstocks, tree physiology, knife sharpening, and affordable, farm-scale AD and its potential each participant will graft 4 fruit trees to take economic and environmental contribution to the home. farm business. It will also provide an opportunity for you to talk to industry experts, voice your views on Both courses will run from 10.30am – 1.30pm perceived barriers to the adoption of AD on farms on and suggest what actions would encourage you to th Saturday 19 Feb 2011 establish an AD plant on your farm. or th Sunday 20 Feb 2011 For further information or to book your place on this Workshop, please contact: at a cost of £60 per person. Jef Tuyn on 02476 858253.

Apple and Pear graftwood will be provided and participants are welcome to bring their own.

Light refreshments will be provided. If you do register for/attend any of the events featured in this newsletter, we would appreciate you Places can be booked by phoning Tom on mentioning that you heard about it from the Hub 01691 777512 Newsletter. or email: [email protected] Your comments or views about this newsletter are always welcome so please do contact us. www.countrysidecrafts.co.uk Thank you

Job Vacancy Northern Marches Project Officer - 15 hours per week

The Small Woods Association (charity no 1081874) is seeking a project officer with knowledge of the forest/woodland management industries to deliver an ‘Ancient Woodland Restoration Project’ in the Northern Marches Leader area. The Northern Marches area is identified as a priority area for ancient woodland restoration by the Forestry Commission under the Ancient Woodland Restoration Framework.

The post is part-time (2 days per week) based at Small Woods headquarters, although the majority of work will be field based. The post holder will have a good understanding of woodland management, and be able to demonstrate delivery of projects on time and on budget. You must have the knowledge, enthusiasm and commitment to deliver a wide range of outputs including training/advice and will be well organised with ability to meet deadlines for submission of written work and delivery of events. You will need to engage and inspire woodland owners and associated businesses to motivate further land management and business development in accordance with the project objectives.

Further details and a project information and application form are available from: www.smallwoods.org.uk/pages/home/job-opportunities.php

Closing date is 12.00 (noon) on 11 th February 2011. For an informal chat about the position please ring Nick Maskery on 01952 435859

Make a Difference in your Community Small Woods Enter the Baxi Community Challenge Wood Works Funded Competition Professional Short Courses 2010—2011 Do you know of a worthy cause looking for some Woodworks III is a Lantra funded programme offering help? Maybe it’s your local village hall which needs reduced price training to those employed in land-based a new water heater or the scout hut which is in need industries within the . To be eligible for of a new boiler. funding you must work in the West Midlands and be engaged in forestry or be farmers with woodland on your Building Services and Environmental Engineer holding. (BSEE) has teamed up with Baxi Commercial February 21 st - 25th (5 days) Division to offer the chance to help out your local OCN Level 2 Coppicing th community in the Baxi Community Challenge. March 5 - 6th (2 days) OCN level 3 Introduction to Small Woodland Management The Baxi Community Challenge is easy to enter, th nd rd March 12 - 13th & April 2 - 3 (4 days) simply send in details of the cause which you think OCN Level 3 Social Forestry would benefit from the help of Baxi Commercial March 19 th - 20th (2 days) Division. All of the submissions will be considered OCN Level 2 Coppice Products by a panel of industry judges, which will include the (Part 1—Hurdle Making) editor of BSEE. Entries are not restricted to April 9 th - 10 th (2 days) registered charities, or necessarily the most OCN Level 2 Coppice Products disadvantaged in society. They would be happy to (Part 2 – Pole Lathe Turning) hear about any small community projects where new heating and/or hot water supplies would make All courses are taught by tutors who have many years a real difference to the people using the building. experience and are practitioners in the areas they teach. The courses are designed to provide the basic knowledge For example, renovation projects for scout huts, needed to allow course participants to continue to practice club halls, WI, a village museum etc. and improve their skills and are suitable for any one wishing to improve their knowledge to a recognised For details of how to enter, please visit: standard. www.bsee.co.uk/news or email For booking, costs and further information contact [email protected] Harriet Wood. All entries must be received no later than Email: [email protected] 28th February 2011 or call 01952 432769. www.greenwoodcentre.org.uk

Business Link Business Events Do you farm in the Tern and Roden or Meres Talent Management – the key to successful and Mosses catchment areas? business growth at Following a successful scheme last year it looks Park Inn Hotel, Forgegate, Telford, TF3 4NA nd promising for another England Catchment Sensitive 2 March 2011, from 9:15am – 1pm Farming Capital Grant Scheme to run this year. If the scheme goes ahead it will be similar to last year Where do you see your business in the future? by providing grant aid towards the improvement or Does your business have a ‘5-year’ plan? Or is installation of facilities that will benefit water quality this the last thing on your mind? such as yard works for clean and dirty water separation and roofing of manure storage areas. It’s never too late to prepare your business for the future, especially in today’s current climate. This There will be two advice clinics running in the workshop explores the importance of succession catchment areas where Catchment Sensitive planning for your business and evaluating the Farming Officers (CSFOs) will be available to talent management of your people - ensuring that provide advice on the grant scheme. These clinics you are prepared for today, tomorrow and beyond. will be in early March - one is on 2nd March 2011 at Harper Adams University College , the other Using a mixture of case studies, our presenters date and venue is to be confirmed (likely to be in will show you how to create a practical strategy Market Drayton area). which helps you to start assessing your current workforce, identify skills gaps and draw an action Farmers requiring further information or wishing to plan to implement steps to secure your business’s attend a clinic need to contact their CSFO to growth potential. arrange an appointment.

This FREE event is suitable for businesses trading Please contact: 1 year +. Jenny Gamble (Tern and Roden) on 07802 329181 Converting Website Traffic into Sales or at Jodie Perry (Meres and Mosses) on Shrewsbury Town Football Club, Oteley Road, 07748 703519 Shrewsbury, SY2 6ST rd 23 March 2011, from 9:15am – 1pm Further information will be available on the Defra website at: Many businesses focus on driving more and more http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/landmanage/w visitors to their website, but forget to convert that ater/csf/index.htm traffic into sales.

This informative half-day workshop will help you understand how to improve the functionality of your website so customers can buy and even pay online for your goods or services. This not only Could you supply and spread 250 tonnes of streamlines your administration but will also help muck this Spring? boost sales and allow your customers to buy from you 24 hours a day! We have been contacted by Maelor Forest Nurseries Ltd who require around 250 tonnes of This FREE event is suitable for businesses trading muck (any type), delivered to the Bronington area, 1 year + and with a website wanting to increase between Whitchurch and Ellesmere, SY13 3HZ, and their online sale. spread, around April 2011.

For futher information about these events If you can help, please contact Mr Sam Firkins, and to book your place, [email protected] or call 0845 1131234 or email call 01948 710606. [email protected]

Wake up to the Heart of the Country – Free Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF) Farm Interpretation Visits

Fantastic Farm Visits Do you have a B&B or self catering cottages on your farm? Would you like help to safely manage LEAF are organising a FREE fun and practical how and where your guests walk around your two day workshop to help you farm and find out about farming and the host inspirational farm visits. countryside?

3rd March 2011 Farm Stay UK has obtained RDPE funding to help Communication, Presentation and farms show off their unique attributes to visitors. Media Skills Training On Farm Stay’s behalf, Brian Hainsworth from & FACE (Farming and Countryside Education) is 4th March 2011 continuing his FREE farm interpretation visits and Facilitation and Participative Skills Training is now looking to get booked up for the spring. Brian needs about two hours of your time and will At a venue Near Shrewsbury, Shropshire walk around your farm with you and highlight ways in which your guests can better enjoy their farm or Hosting engaging farm visits that inspire and country experience. You will receive a report enthuse visitors about farming, food and the which can be used for leaflets and farm trails. countryside takes skill and practise. This two day workshop is aimed at farmers who want to give The interpretation visits are open to all farm-based their visitors a day to remember. It will explore accommodation businesses in the West Midlands. new ways to help you get your messages across and give you lots of new ideas for hands-on To book Brian, please email activities to inspire your visitors. [email protected] or call 02476 696909 This workshop will give you the presentation and facilitation skills you need to really make a difference to how your industry is perceived and 0% Business Loans from the Carbon Trust share your passion for farming with others. 0% business loans of £3,000 - £100,000 are Sensory Rich Farm Visits for Disabled and available from the Carbon Trust to help Disengaged Visitors organisations finance and invest in energy saving projects. April 14th 2011, 9:00am – 4:30pm Why a 0% Business Loan makes business At a venue Near Hales, Shropshire sense: • Anticipated energy savings offset the loan Have you ever considered hosting farm visits for repayments, so new equipment should pay disabled and disengaged visitors? LEAF are for itself and you should continue to make organising this FREE workshop, offering farmers savings year on year. from across the West Midlands region, the • The loans are government funded and opportunity to learn how to host sensory rich visits unsecured. for mobility and sensory impaired visitors. The • A straightforward and fast application course will involve group discussions, process with no arrangement fees. presentations and interactive activities and lunch • You’ll receive a conditional offer within 24 will be included. There will also be a follow-up hours of your application being processed. half-day workshop in July, to share experiences • Loans can be repaid over a period of up to from hosting visits. 4 years.

• You can track the progress of your For further information about these and other application online. courses and to book your FREE place,

please contact Evelyn See: To see if you are eligible and to see how much [email protected] or call 02476 413911 you could save, please contact the Carbon

Trust on: 01865 885 850 or visit their website at Please book early as places are limited. www.carbontrust.co.uk

Your Natural Heritage Project

One special feature of rural areas is their remarkable biodiversity. Can you remember disturbing skylarks in fields, watching hares box in spring or the sight of a Barn owl swooping silently back home at dawn? Maybe you enjoy summer strolls through our woodlands and meadows, where bees are being busily pollinating wildflowers.

Perhaps you didn’t know that there are around 250 different species of bee in the UK, or that Skylarks, hares and Barn owls are among 1150 species of significant conservation concern in the UK.

Rural communities in Shropshire are now being offered the chance to help discover and conserve their local flora and fauna in an exciting new project, being run by Shropshire Council’s natural environment team and funded by the Rural Development Programme for England.

Communities will be given the opportunity to learn new skills, enabling them to survey their local habitats and record the flora and fauna they contain. Groups will be asked to identify what aspects of their local natural heritage they feel are most important. Funding and advice will be available to help communities protect and improve these biodiversity hotspots.

This project means that anyone who would like to discover what lives in their local area now has the chance to get involved and make a real difference to biodiversity conservation in Shropshire.

For more information about the project, contact Gareth Parry on 01743 252543 or email [email protected] .

Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition 2011

The Environmental Photographer of the Year 2011 competition is now open, and this year a new video category has been introduced to further raise awareness of environmental and social issues.

Organised by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), the Environmental Photographer of the Year is an international showcase for the very best in amateur and professional environmental photography, and encourages entries that are creative, resonant, original and beautiful. Subjects include wildlife and marine life, environmental degradation, street photography and urban lifestyles, technology, landscapes and portraiture.

The 2011 competition categories are:

• Mott MacDonald’s Changing Climates • The Natural World • The Underwater World • Quality of Life • A View From the Western World • Building Our Future (New for 2011) • The Young Environmental Photographer of the Year (Under 16 & Under 21) • Video (New for 2011)

The competition will run until 31 st July 2011 , with judging taking place throughout August and September and it is completely free to enter .

For further information about this competition and how to enter, visit www.epoty.org

An Opportunity to S tudy Coming Soon! ‘Life after Manufactured Fertiliser’

Engaging with IT Economy on the Farm Applications open for the 2011 Frank Arden Study Award A series of courses covering the following topics: The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust (NFST) is pleased to announce a special award offering • Computerised Finances for the Farm leading industry individuals the chance to explore • Computerising the Farm Records ‘Life after manufactured fertiliser’. • Cattle • Sheep Sponsored by the Frank Arden Memorial Fund, the • Planet travel study aims to identify opportunities to reduce • Mucking out your Computer our reliance on manufactured fertiliser and find • Keeping up with Digital alternatives to these increasingly scarce and costly inputs. and more! This special award is open to UK residents working Please look at future editions of the Hub in the fields of food, farming or forestry. There is no newsletter for dates and further details age limit for applicants.

The closing date for applications is: 18th March 2011.

Further information can be obtained from: Planting Opportunity John Stones, Director Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust on 01858 555544 Wrenbury Cider on the Shropshire/Cheshire or email: [email protected] border have a number of mm25 Kingston Black You can also visit the website: one year maiden cider apple trees, and they are www.nuffieldscholar.org looking for someone who may be interested in planting and looking after them. You would need space to plant the trees approximately 10 metres apart. Tried & Tested Launch SNS C alculator

Wrenbury Cider would be willing to purchase the The Tried & Tested Soil Nitrogen Supply (SNS) fruit produced. calculator is a spreadsheet available online which can help farmers work out how much nitrogen is For further information, please contact available in their soil by taking into account soil Paul Sweeney on 01270 781212 or types, rainfall and previous crops. Email: [email protected] The SNS calculator is available for download from www.nutrientmanagement.org . It can also be ordered free of charge on a USB memory stick. The memory stick also includes electronic versions of the Tried and Tested nutrient management plan and other related documents such as the Fertiliser Do you currently receive our newsletter in the Manual (RB209). post? Would you like to help the Hub reduce their costs and do a little bit for the All Tried & Tested tools, including plans, A3 record environment? If so, please let us know your sheets and USB memory sticks can be requested email address. free of charge. Contact us on: [email protected] Please call 02476 858896 or email [email protected] For further information visit www.nutrientmanagement.org

Catchment Sensitive Farming - West Midlands Dearnford Lake Update Charity Car Boot and Collectors Fairs How can you reduce diffuse water pollution on your farm? Sunday 1st May 2011 Sunday 22nd May 2011 All services are FREE of charge and carried out Sunday 12th June 2011 by qualified advisors. Places will be filled on a Sunday 3rd July 2011 first-come first-served basis. Sunday 31st July 2011 Sunday 21st August 2011 Available in the Teme Catchment this Autumn: Sunday 4th September 2011 • Water Management Plans Sunday 18th September 2011 • Soil, Manure & Slurry Analysis • Soil Husbandry Training Cash in your collectables - Spring clean your • Riparian Mangement Walks – Bio bed attics - Recycle unwanted items - Bargain Hunters Pesticide Wash Down Facility Training dream.

Other training that CSF may offer from time to Stallholders set up : 7.30-8am time: Gates open to the public at 8am • Farm Infrastructure Audit On site catering • Nutrient Management Plans Dogs only on leads • Slurry/Manure Handling & Storage (& Excellent toilet facilities Financial Implications) Tilstock Road, Whitchurch SY13 3JQ If you are interested in any of the above, (alongside A41/A49/A525) please contact your local Catchment Sensitive Farming Officer: For further information Emma Buckingham - River Teme contact Dearnford Lake on: 0300 0601034 or Mobile 07825 063027 01948 665914 or 07803 050397 or email: www.dearnford.com [email protected]

Forestry Commision, England Public Forest Estate Consultation January 2011

The public consultation on the future of the public forest estate in England, began on the 27th January 2011. The consultation will run for 12 weeks until 21st April 2011. This consultation is about the future ownership and management of the public forest estate in England – land managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. You can see the consultation document on the website, www.forestry.gov.uk/england-pfeconsultation or www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/forests/index.htm. You can request a hard copy via the contact details below.

If you have any questions please call 0845 3673787 or Email: [email protected]

Public Forest Estate Consultation Co-ordinator Forestry Commission England 620 Bristol Business Park, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ

Low Carbon Enterprise (LCE) “The Sustainable Energy Experts” Reminders

Talk to us about climate change, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, renewable technologies and saving money. Woodland Owner in the West Midlands? If you’d like to talk about what LCE can do for Are you looking for timber and woodfuel your business or organisation please contact: opportunities? Robert Saunders, LCE Co-ordinator, at The Did you know subsidised technical advice is Pump House, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, SY1 currently available to you? 2DP, or call 01743 277110, or Email [email protected] or visit For further information please contact www.lowcarbonenterprise.org.uk Martin B. Jones (Heartwoods Woodland Champion Advisor), The Woodland Stewardship Company Ltd on 01743 289670 or 01743 249940 or E-mail Please support your local producer markets in [email protected] The Square, Shrewsbury Website: www.woodlandstewardship.com Food and Drink Fair 1st Friday of the month For more details, please contact Jenny Jones on FARM CARBON 01743 792547

HELPING FARMERS GET ON TRACK Made in Shropshire TO A LOWER-CARBON FUTURE The showcase for local arts, crafts and produce 2nd Saturday of the month If your farm is within South Shropshire you For more details, please contact Victoria, can apply for this FREE service. Please Shropshire Rural Hub on 01939 262106 contact Dave Luckhurst at FARM CARBON www.madeinshropshire.co.uk on 01588 630683 or 07811851128, email [email protected] or visit www.farm-carbon.org Our Website - www.ruralhubswm.org.uk For more information about events, news, funding, Supported by LEADER, South Shropshire Partnership and Light Foot Enterprises funding etc, visit our website – www.ruralhubswm.org.uk

Please let Alison ( [email protected] ) have your submissions for our next Newsletter as soon as you can, but definitely before 28 th February 2011. Thank you

Disclaimer The Shropshire Rural Hub accepts no liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from any action taken in reliance on the information contained in this Newsletter