ORGANISERS of Yorkshire’s annual charity Farmhouse Big Breakfast have given £4,462 to the Arc-Addington Fund.

The 2010 event was staged over three days in January at Scaife Hall Farm, Blubberhouses, hosted by on-farm accommodation providers Chris and Christine Ryder.

A total of 164 breakfasts were served and the money will go to Arc’s strategic rural housing scheme, which provides housing for farmers and their families who have to leave their farms for a variety of reasons.

Ian Bell, fund director, said they had invested £1.2m in Yorkshire alone in the past 12 months in support of farming families.

He said: “Fundraising of this nature is absolutely fundamental to our needs and we want to spread the message to other farming families across the UK, who may be facing similar problems, that we are here to help them through their difficulties.”

This year’s breakfast was organised and run jointly by REAL Food and Farming, which promotes and supports the Yorkshire Dales uplands and the communities and businesses that depend on them, and local members of Farm Stay UK, Britain’s biggest network of farm-based accommodation providers.

Next year’s charity Big Breakfast will be at Will and Lindsey Hitchen’s St George’s Court B&B, Old Home Farm, High Grantley, Ripon.

CHEQUE PRESENTATION: Pictured are from left, Steven Crabtree, of Bolton Abbey and REAL food and farming chairman; Ian Bell, Arc-Addington fund director; Christine Clarkson, of Bondcroft Farm, B&B, Embsay; Dave Jones, Barclay’s North of England agricultural manager; and host Christine Ryder.