The Farmers Mart Oct/Nov 2015 - Issue 42 | Page 5

Farm News Yorkshire bed push raises more than £8k for charity »»Recent winner of NFYFC Club of the month was Yorkshire’s own Winksley cum Grantley YFC, whose 55 members meet at GrantleyVillage Hall. They won after a mammoth fund-raise in March this year, in which they pushed a bath from Ripon to Scarborough – a distance of 60 hard miles. Sponsorship raised more than £8,000 which has been split between equally between the Club’s supported charities: Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. Members – who do well at sports and stock judging as well as fundraising have become closer as friends since the big push – and reckon this remarkable achievement shows that they can turn their hands to anything. The next big fund-raiser is to be announced! Seventy jobs saved at livestock auction »»The jobs of 70 full-time and part- auctioneering business and secures a large time staff at a livestock auction business number of rural jobs,” explained Russell Roddick and Laurie, is leading the company have been saved after the business was Cash. through its early stages, alongside his prevented from going into administration. Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Marts PLC (C&D) was sold by joint administrators Russell Cash and Ben Woolrych for an undisclosed sum. C&D operates livestock auctioneering markets at Longtown and Carlisle. The Longtown business boasts the accolade of brother Stuart. He said: “We are delighted “The new owners have been hugely supportive and we wish them every success to have acquired C&D’s business, which with their plans to develop the business.” provides a vital livestock auctioneering ‘we wish them every success with their plans to develop the business’ and land agency facility to the farming community. “We will be busy from day one, continuing and further developing the busy sales programme with the help of the existing staff team and we will, of course, being Europe’s largest sheep market. “The deal is a great result for the John Thomson, a director of Thomson, He also thanked Barclays Bank for be working hard to ensure that we continue farming communities in the Borders as it its continuous support in a difficult to enjoy the support of the agricultural preserves a fully-resourced local livestock situation. community.”