LEAF Open Farm Sun­day (LOFS) is farming’s annu­al open day. Man­aged by LEAF (Link­ing Envi­ron­ment And Farm­ing), with sup­port from lead­ing food and farm­ing organ­i­sa­tions, hun­dreds of farm­ers across Britain open their gates to the pub­lic to dis­cov­er the world of farm­ing, food pro­duc­tion and all that it encompasses. 

2020 events saw LOFS take to the screen with LEAF Online Farm Sun­day! It has proved huge­ly suc­cess­ful and is some­thing we plan to devel­op with the sup­port from a new team of LOFS Ambassadors.

All LOFS activ­i­ty aims to build trust and under­stand­ing in food and farm­ing, put farm­ing back in the heart of com­mu­ni­ties and be great PR for British agriculture.

The role:

The new LOFS Ambas­sador role is for some­one who loves tak­ing part in LEAF Open Farm Sun­day and talk­ing about it!

Pri­mar­i­ly it’s about help­ing to build our com­mu­ni­ty of LOFS farm­ers – shar­ing ideas, answer­ing ques­tions, help­ing to pro­mote LOFS and being one of 7 ambas­sadors for LOFS across Britain.

The main activ­i­ties are:

• organ­is­ing, pro­mot­ing and run­ning occa­sion­al online meet­ings (Zoom chats) to share ideas with LOFS farm­ers in your area
• pro­mot­ing LOFS across your indus­try net­works and on social media
• cham­pi­oning LOFS in meet­ings and at events
• being a spokesper­son for LOFS in the press and media
• tele­phone sup­port to new and reg­is­tered LOFS host farmers
• feed­back on LOFS activ­i­ty in your area and par­tic­i­pate in quar­ter­ly meet­ings with the full LOFS Ambas­sador team.

For this part time role (approx. 5 days a year), we are look­ing for an enthu­si­as­tic, approach­able and proud ambas­sador of LEAF Open Farm Sun­day; a good com­mu­ni­ca­tor, con­fi­dent using tech­nol­o­gy, social media and pro­mot­ing events. A social pres­ence is desired but not essential. 

What to expect from LEAF: 

• Each LOFS Ambas­sador will receive guid­ance and sup­port from the LOFS team at LEAF HQ.
• LEAF will pay pro-rata £200/​day, for approx­i­mate­ly 5 days’ work
• In addi­tion, rea­son­able expens­es incurred though the role will be reim­bursed, such as milage (45p/​mile) and oth­er dis­burse­ments. Any travel/​expenses over the val­ue of £50 must be agreed pri­or to expen­di­ture with the LEAF Open Farm Sun­day Man­ag­er (Annabel Shackleton).
• You will be offered resources nec­es­sary to effec­tive­ly look after your region.

Spe­cif­ic require­ments will vary depend­ing on the indi­vid­ual and the area. The main aim is to con­tin­ue to make LOFS an ongo­ing suc­cess, build­ing on achieve­ments year on year. 

To apply please send in infor­ma­tion about your skills and rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence, to: 

[email protected]

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: 8^th Jan­u­ary 2021. We will con­tact poten­tial can­di­dates the fol­low­ing week and the suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be noti­fied by 28^th Jan­u­ary and the role will com­mence in Feb­ru­ary 2021.

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