Based in Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, the NFU’s headquarters were awash with welly-themed fundraising last week. The NFU has long been a staunch supporter of Farm Africa, and we are thrilled that the NFU membership magazine Countryside became an official media partner this year.

Editor of Countryside Martin Stanhope announced the partnership in the magazine’s September edition, which also featured an interview with Farm Africa ambassador Kate Adie. In print, the magazine has been urging its readers to take part in our Give Hunger the Boot fundraising campaign, so it was only fitting that the magazine’s writers and editors followed suit in their own office!

The week's activities included tasty African meals (and a very apt sausage wellington!) offered by the NFU canteen for a small donation and an NFU headquarters welly-wanging competition! Staff also brought in home-baked cakes for a fundraising bake sale and held a raffle with prizes including a tent, outdoor wear and other goodies kindly donated by companies including Mountain Warehouse and Countrywide.

On Friday, staff were encouraged to quite literally ‘Give Hunger the Boot at Work’, by wearing their wellies in the office! Bold welly-wearers strutted their welly booted-stuff at work for a small donation whilst their welly-shy colleagues made a donation in return for a ‘welly waiver’.

A great time was had by all, and over £400 was raised for our work on the ground in eastern Africa, helping farmers grow themselves and their families out of hunger, for good.

Would you and your colleagues like to take part in Give Hunger the Boot at Work? Visit our celebrity-packed page to find out how easy it is to do, or get in touch with us at corporate@farmafrica.org to find out more. We can support you every welly-clad step of the way, and have plenty of fundraising ideas and free resources to make your workplace activities as fun, easy and rewarding as possible.