The North Pennines AONB Partnership is holding a meeting for any North Pennines Smallholders interested in finding out more about machinery rings and also how a skills/labour/scything group could be developed.

John Rooney from ‘Ridings Machinery Ring’ in Yorkshire, will give a short presentation about machinery rings and will be there to give advice about the potential to do something similar in the North Pennines: http://www.ridingsmachineryring.co.uk/

In addition, Paul Harper, from ‘The Farmer Network’, in Cumbria, will give a short presentation about setting up a network and developing a labour skills directory. Paul Harper is happy to give advice about setting up something similar in the North Pennines: http://www.thefarmernetwork.co.uk/

The meeting will be in the meeting room upstairs at The Golden Lion Hotel, Allendale

If you would like to attend , please email Ruth: ruth@northpenninesaonb.org.uk