Creating a lasting impact
Barfoots endeavours to have a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of all those touched by our business. We do this through:
Education & career development: Supporting educational initiatives that promote sustainable development, supporting early careers and opportunities to ‘grow’ within our business and industry.
Health & wellbeing: Inspiring and enabling positive relationships with vegetables, healthy lifestyles and wellbeing, collaborating with local organisations and charities.
Environmental development: Encouraging biodiversity and soil health, and safeguarding natural resources, benefitting not only our farms but the community at large.
Below are some highlights of our community initiatives.
Social and economic development of Senegal
Barfoots Senegal supports over 10,000 people, providing employment, education and infrastructure for communities affected by poverty.
Our community engagement programme has a wide focus from healthcare to building school classrooms, educating on best practice farming methods, constructing drinking water infrastructure and supplying fresh bread.
One of the schools built near our farm in Senegal.
Improving healthcare standards in Senegal
As part of our promise to care for our local workforce in Senegal, we are working to raise awareness of health issues and improve access to healthcare.
We employ doctors, provide medical facilities, run health education courses, give first aid training, and vaccination programmes.
The vaccination team on our farm in Senegal.
Encouraging kids to eat veg with Veg Power
80% of UK kids are not eating enough vegetables. Veg Power is on a mission to inspire kids from early years through primary school and into their teens to veggie loving habits they will keep for life. We are proud to support Veg Power with initiatives in our local community, including educational visits which hopefully also inspire the next generation of growers!
Lilian from Barfoots’ farm team with local school children in a Tenderstem field.
Community nourishment
Working with our charity partners FareShare and UKHarvest, we contribute to schemes that relieve food poverty, reduce food waste and educate on healthy eating. Learn more about our food redistribution and waste reduction.
Toma, Zinaida and Aleksandra from Barfoots volunteering at UKHarvest’s Bognor Regis food hub.
Farm Africa
We’re proud and humbled to be part of the Food For Good Network. Over £2m has been raised for Farm Africa during the past 10 years, creating a lasting legacy of sustainable and profitable farms, reducing poverty and hunger in Eastern Africa.
Promoting the importance of biodiversity in Peru
Our ongoing biodiversity regeneration project in Peru in collaboration with Sainsbury’s and Royal Botanical Kew Gardens has a strong school outreach programme to promote real engagement amongst children about the importance of native biodiversity and the wide-ranging benefits native species have.
The local school children in the Ica-Nazca region where we grow.
Bognor Regis Town FC Community Partner
Barfoots are proud to be a community partner to Bognor Regis Town FC for a number of years, supporting teams within the club and funding free admission for children under 14. Together we aim to inspire the next generation to a healthy, active lifestyle.