Surviving rural life

‘The Prince’s Countryside Fund offers no end of help, advice and guidance for country people’

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Stunning views, a healthy environment, peace and plenty of fresh, country air; I never take life in the Cotswolds for granted and every day I’m reminded how fortunate we are to call this beautiful part of the English countryside our home.

But no one is pretending that rural life is easy. Just ask anyone who suffered the floods in north Gloucestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire or the West Riding of Yorkshire in the weeks before Christmas. Then there’s the long-running saga of struggling dairy farms, the decline in village shops and unreliable (or even non-existent) broadband. These are all issues which concern the Prince of Wales, a man who’s often been called Britain’s most famous farmer, and which led to him creating the Prince’s Countryside Fund in 2010. It’s a registered charity with the aim of supporting rural families, securing a brighter future for the British countryside and keeping farm businesses successful and sustainable.