Education & Young People Environment & Climate 2024
The Country Trust

Impact Report 2023/24

The Country Trust is the UK's leading national educational charity connecting disadvantaged children with the land that sustains us. In 2023/24, they reached over 32,000 children across core programmes and took more than 20,000 to working farms — with a deliberate focus on those facing the highest disadvantage, including children on free school meals, with SEND, and from areas of urban deprivation.

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Farm discovery day visits; multi-day residential experiences (countryside, forest, beach); Food Discovery workshops; in-school food and farming education; teacher CPD Custom geography from upload: England

📊Key Metrics

32,000+ children reached across core programmes; 20,315 children supported to access real working farms Key Metric 1
41.8% of children in partner schools meet EVER6 Free School Meals criteria (national average 26.3%) — demonstrating focus on highest-disadvantage communities Key Metric 2
95% of children felt farms were important after their visit (up 11% on prior year); 100% of teachers said programmes gave pupils new opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have accessed Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Programmes target children least likely to access green space — particularly those in urban deprivation, with SEND, or facing other barriers to outdoor experience
  • Addresses poverty of experience through hands-on countryside learning — building language, literacy, confidence and self-esteem in children from limited or chaotic home environments
  • At least 33% of residential participants are visiting farms, forests and beach locations for the first time (rising to 40% on Suffolk residentials); reluctant learners consistently re-engaged through farm visits

📍Geography

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