Help us raise £10k today!

Today we're launching our crowdfunding campaign to raise £10,000 to employ a Development Worker to help us deliver Phase 1 of our business plan:

• A candidate (tenant) selection & land matching process.
• A tenancy agreement template which provides a legal framework for renting on long term and agroecological basis.
• A support network for new tenants to help their farm business and a membership base.
• A brokering service which matches tenants with landowners using the above systems.
• ‘Investment Readiness’ for Phase 2- a detailed business plan & enough organisational profile to reach as many potential investors as possible.

We are currently entirely voluntary run and we need staff to help us do these.  

Phase 2 of our business plan will deliver the full aim of purchasing farmland funded by community share offers, in order to provide the best & longest term tenancies for our farmers. We will then scale this up with the aim to purchase & rent out 10 farms in 10 years.
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What we hope to raise with our crowdfunding campaign

The more money we can raise, the more impact we can have.  Here is a breakdown of what we plan to do depending on how much money we can raise:

• £20,000 Pays for a development worker for 1 year, 3 days a week.  This work will involved developing a network of people looking for land, identifying potential land we could purchase, and procedures for how we purchase the land.
• £40,000 Enables us to also employ a land agent for a year to help develop a pioneering agroecological tenancy agreement and broker tenancies between existing landowners and aspiring agroecological farmers.
• £50,000 Allows us also to run a programme of public events across Scotland to build SFLT's profile, build a support network for future tenants and help to build a movement for agroecological farming in Scotland. 
• £70,000 Enables a development worker for another year, getting SFLT to the point it can offer share offers for significant, game-changing farm opportunities. This will set us on track to achieve our "10 farms in 10 years" target.
• £90,000 Enables an additional year of employment for a land agent to continue work as above.

We plan to match the proceeds of the crowdfunder with grant-funding like for like.  So, if we raise £10,000 with the crowdfunder we will match this with £10,000 grantfunding, making your donation go further.

Support us, and DONATE TODAY!  Our campaign will run until 29th November 2019