Farming

Farming new entrants - your nearest Fresh Start academy

For general advice on the Fresh Start initiative, contact your national co-ordinator.

For advice on academies and programmes running in your area, see below:

South East
Sussex / Kent and Hampshire

Laurence Gould Partnership Limited
28, Church Road
Burgesshill
West Sussex, RH15 9AE

Douglas Jackson, Fresh Start Academy, South East Regional Co-ordinator

Tel: 01444 232822
douglas@laurencegould.com
www.plumpton.ac.uk/freshstart

N.B. Subject to funding further Academies will be opening in the South East, contact Douglas Jackson for more details

Plumpton, Brinsbury, Hadlow & Sparsholt Colleges

Academy Programme

Buckinghamshire / Berkshire & Oxfordshire

Vale Training Group
Marsh Hill Centre
Marsh
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire, HP17 8ST

Kate Mason, Training Manager

Tel: 01296 612201
Kate@valetraining.co.uk

Vale Training, Aylesbury

Oxfordshire

Abingdon and Witney College
Common Leys Farm Campus
Pitts Lane
Hailey, Witney
Oxfordshire, OX29 9UU

Opening September 2008

Contact Douglas Jackson for details – see above

Abingdon & Witney College, Common Leys Farm Campus

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South West
Cornwall

Cornwall Agri-food Council
The Old Dry
Station Road
Pool, Redruth
Cornwall, TR15 3QG

Emma Kehyaian, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01209 616092
emma.kehyaian@cornwallenterprise.co.ukCornwall Fresh Start Scheme

 
Devon - Currently restricted to the Membership of Devon YFC only.

Devon Federation of Young Farmers Clubs
Devon YFC Centre
Retail Park Close
Marsh Barton Road
Exeter, EX2 8LG

Nick Creasy

Tel:  01392 272189
nick@devonyfc.co.uk

Only open to members of the YFC

Various Locations in Devon

Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcstershire (Three Counties)

Three Counties Fresh Start
Hartpury College
Hartpury
Gloucestershire, GL19 3BE

Brian Gilder, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01452 702100
Fax: 01452 700684
Mobile: 07788 148358
brian.gilder@hartpury.ac.uk

Hartpury College

Academy Programme

Dorset

Agricultural & Rural Adviser
DAAS
Stinsford Business Centre
Kingston Maurward College
Dorchester
Dorset, DT2 8PY

Katherine Searly, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01305 215167
Fax: 01305 215168
daas@kmc.ac.uk

Kingston Maurward College

Academy Programme

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Eastern
Essex

Writtle College,
Chelmsford,
Essex, CM13RR

Steve Lindsay
Mobile 07775 544344

Writtle College

Academy Programme

Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

Shuttleworth College,
Old Warden Park,
Biggleswade,
Bedfordshire, SG18 9EA

James O’Gram

New Co-ordinator
01223 813622
jameso@laurencegould.com

Administration Contact
Moira Caborn A.C.M.A.
01767 626222
Moira.caborn@shuttleworth.ac.uk

Shuttleworth College

New Programme being planned

Cambridgeshire

College of West Anglia, Landbeach Road, Milton, Cambridgeshire

Opening Autumn 2008

Steve Lindsay
Mobile 07775 544344

College of West Anglia, Milton

Norfolk - (The Norfolk Farmers Forum)

Norfolk Rural Business Advise Service
Rural Support Centre
Easton College
Easton
Norwich
Norfolk, NR9 5DX

Michael Mack

Tel: 01603 748844
Fax: 01603 731282
mmack@easton.ac.uk
www.ruraladvice.co.uk

Easton College

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West and East Midlands
Shropshire

Shropshire Rural Hub
Walford & North Shropshire College
Walford Campus
Baschurch
Nr Shrewsbury
Shropshire, SY4 2HL

Victoria Jones, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01939 262106
Fax:  01939 261112
Mobile: 07967 438516
shropsruralhub@wnsc.ac.uk

Waford & North Shropshire College

Academy Programme

Northamptonshire

Laurence Gould Partnership Limited
The Forge
Four Mile Stable Barns
Cambridge Road
Newmarket
Suffolk, CB8 OTN

James O’Gram, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01223 813622
jameso@laurencegould.com

Moulton College

Academy Programme

Nottinghamshire

Innovation & Creation
Rural Enterprise
School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences
Brackenhurst,
Southwell,
Nottinghamshire

Opening Autumn 2008

Gail Dixon

Tel: 0115 848 8160
gail.dixon@ntu.ac.uk

T.B.A.

Yorkshire and Humberside
York and Yorkshire

Farming and Innovation
Askham Bryan College
York
YO23 3FR

Andersons
The Old Post Office
Market Place
Thirsk
North Yorkshire, YO7 1TF

Kevin Kendall, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel: 01904 772277
Kevin.kendall@askham-bryan.ac.uk

Peter Garbutt, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator
Tel: 01845 524455
pgarbutt@andersonsnorthern.co.uk

Askham Bryan College

Academy Programme

North Yorkshire

Thirsk Group Academy
Low Riggs
Middlesmoor
Harrogate,
North Yorkshire

Andrew Hattan

Tel: 01423 755122
andrew@andrewandsallyhattan.wanadoo.co.uk

Thirsk Auction Mart

East Yorkshire

The Wolds Fresh Start Academy
Peter Caley
Brown & Co,
10, Market Place,
Brigg,
North Lincolnshire
DN20 8ES

Peter Caley

Tel: 01652 654833 / 07768 642223
p.caley@brown-co.com

Bishop Burton College

Northwest
Cheshire

Reaseheath Agricultural Development Academy (ADA) Reaseheath College
Nantwich
Cheshire, CW5 6DF

Martyn East

Tel: 01270 613271
martyne@reaseheath.ac.uk

Reaseheath College

Lancashire

Northern Rural Training
The Bungalow Training Centre
Lancaster Auction Mart
Golgotha
Lancaster, LA1 3JQ

Robert Burrow, Fresh Start Academy co-ordinator

Tel  01524 67702
robert@northernrural.co.uk

Myerscough College

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