The Farmers Mart Jun/Jul 2016 - Issue 46 | Page 40

Intake Farm

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Carl and Charlotte Clayton

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Helping
Tanzania
from Ulleskelf

Est.
1969

»»EARLIER THIS YEAR, FATHER
and daughter Carl and
Charlotte Clayton made their
own personal impact on the
Tour de Yorkshire designing
various bale sculptures along
the first day’s route that took
the race cyclists past their
village of Ulleskelf, near
Tadcaster.
This wasn’t because they’d
suddenly gone all arty at Intake
Farm. It was to assist Charlotte
in her quest to raise funds for
her trip to Tanzania next year
when she will be taking part
in a voluntary project to help a
rural community.
“I’m going for a month with
other students of Tadcaster
Grammar School and we

will be helping in either
making a building or with
water sanitation. It is set up
through Camps International
who organise these trips and
two-thirds of the money we
need to raise goes towards
the raw materials that are
required. Tanzania is a very
poor country and 70 per cent
of its population live in the
countryside. There are not
many that have clean drinking
water and it’s all very much
subsistence farming. The
wages are about a dollar a
day.
“Dad and I decided that
the Tour de Yorkshire coming
by our farm was too good an
opportunity to miss and that