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Empowering Agricultural Education

At Central Region Farmers Trust, our mission is to provide funding for education that benefits agriculture and horticulture in the central region. We strive to support farmers in adopting sustainable farming practices and enhancing their skills for a thriving agricultural sector.

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Tanya Robbins – Gloucestershire Trustee

Tanya farms in Gloucestershire with her husband Tom and they run a mixed farm business mainly grazing agreements with four different landowners lambing 1000 ewes and finishing the lambs. They have arable land and a small beef suckler herd too with Countryside Stewardship. Tanya represents Gloucestershire as Trustee for the Central Region Farmers Trust and is currently a Trustee for the UK Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust. She is also on the committee for the Gloucestershire branch of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Trust and Gloucestershire Farming Friends.

Philip Chamberlain BB&O Trustee

Philip is a third generation farmer in South Oxfordshire, although the fourth generation are now running the farm as an all arable unit, with diversified income from Barn Conversions, an AD plant and green waste composting site. Philip has been County Chairman of the BB&O NFU in 1993, and also served on the HQ Cereals committee. He was a past Board member of Rothamsted Research and Home Grown Cereals Authority and Chairman of Orion Farm Group.

As Philip’s sons are now running the farm he spends a fair amount of his time in his role as Trustee of God’s House in Ewelme, an Almshouse and Educational Charity.

Peter Gantlett

Peter is the Trustee representing Wiltshire. He was a past NFU County Chairman, and is currently the NFU Swindon branch chair ( for the second time ). He farms 450 ha in partnership with his wife and daughter. The farm is all organic, with 150 cross bred cows milked through 2 lely robots.

He has also diversified into offices, workshops, leisure and solar enterprises. Peter’s hobbies are his four grandchildren.

Simon Weaver CRFT Chair

Simon, pictured ( on the left) with our 2024 Nuffield Scholar, receiving her award from Nuffield patron HRH The Duke of Gloucester, is also a Nuffield Schooler.

Simon farms in Gloucestershire and also produces organic cheese, he has farming interests in Hungary.

Jane Currill Trust Administrator

Jane is an accomplished administrator, she has worked for a variety of businesses and farmers in our area.