The Farming Health Hub (FHH) - the first of it's kind to be developed in England - is a totally new concept where organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors have joined together to provide advice, support and guidance to farming communities in local venues, such as livestock markets and pop up venues, rather than farmers and their families having to visit more formal environments.

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We have regular Farming Health Hubs taking place at Holsworthy Livestock Market, and in Tavistock. 

 

The FHH is built on a desire to build on Cornwall’s reputation for partnership working to create a new organisation in which private, public and voluntary sector organisations work together to provide confidential advice around Physical Health, Mental Health and Business Health to farmers and their families in their day to day lives.

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The aim of the FHH is to offer a range of support within the three main areas. These include general physical health checks, such as eye and hearing tests, diabetes, cholesterol and dental health checks and mental health support, including managing stress, anxiety and depression and coping with rural isolation and loneliness. The FHH will also work with organisations such as Cornwall Young Farmers, Public Health and health partners, and employers to deliver mental health campaigns.

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Our partners at Exeter University have undertaken research project: Aging farmers’ health and access to healthcare in the wake of digital service provision. You can read the report in full below here Aging Farmers Health

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Accidental Counsellor Training

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Are you a farmer, accountant, vet, land agent, feed supplier, publican, cafe owner, or anyone
who lends a listening ear to Farmers? Farming can be a lonely and stressful job. In your dayto-day work people may have opened up to you, and perhaps you find yourself providing more than just professional expertise. You
might have stepped into the role of an Accidental Counsellor.

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Simple conversations can be really powerful, and we all have a role to play in supporting healthy farming communities. Farming Health Hub offers accessible training, techniques and resources to empower you to respond in a helpful and appropriate way

 

The Accidental Counsellor Training will provide you with practical skills. They will introduce concepts of accidental counselling and provide you with easy-to-use techniques for supporting people with health, wellbeing, and other concerns that they may share during routine conversations. These skills and techniques can be applied in many contexts and include active listening, calming and effective gentle questioning. The workshops will also offer pointers on how and where to signpost people for professional and targeted support.

 

Our next course is running on WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH 2026, from 11am-1pm, Online.  

To book your space,on this FREE Introductory course, please email: Nikki.Kelly@imagineif.net 

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“The course gave me confidence to not shy away from difficult conversations. The information was relevant, well put together and flowed. I know it’s not my job to solve someone’s problems, but I now have some new skills and I know where to signpost them to for more help.”

 

The workshops are being delivered under the “Empowering ‘accidental counsellors’ to support the health and wellbeing of farmers in Cornwall and Devon” project. Imagine If Partnership, Farming Health Hub and the University of Exeter are working together to develop support for farmers, their families and the farming community.

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