Penrith Young Farmers

22/08/2026

🎥 Winter Competitions Explained! ❄️🏆

Some of our club officials and committee members have been busy explaining the upcoming winter competitions in a series of short videos!
The competitions covered are:
🔹 Situation Vacant
🔹 Member of the Year
🔹 Fence Erecting
🔹 Live & Carcass Judging
🔹 Quiz
🔹 Just a Minute
🔹 After Dinner Speaking
🔹 Public Speaking
🔹 Junior Reading
🔹 County Sports

We’ll shortly be opening up intentions to enter, so keep an eye out! 👀

If you have any questions about any of the competitions, or want to know a bit more before deciding what to enter, please give any of us a message.

We’re looking forward to a successful year of competitions💚🖤

22/08/2026

A HUGE WELL DONE TO ALL OF THE FINALISTS🎉
But especially Kathleen Twentyman in the category Supporter of the Year & Lucy Hannen in the category New Member.

We will be supporting you all the way💚🖤

Huge congratulations to all our Cumbria YFC members who have been shortlisted in the NFYFC Achiever Awards! Best of luck to you all!

Young Farmer of the Year - Amy Wood, Crook YFC, Erin, Greysouthen YFC and Harry Cornthwaite, Kent Estuary YFC

Community Spirit Award - DRIGG YFC and Sedbergh YFC

New Member - Lucy Hannen, Penrith YFC

Supporter of the Year - Kathleen Twentyman, Penrith YFC

05/08/2026

👀 We said Penrith YFC had some BIG plans in the pipeline… and we weren’t joking. 👀

Penrith YFC are hosting Cumbria Northern District Field Day 2027! 🌾🚜🎉

More details coming soon… 👀

03/08/2026

🌟 MEET THE TEAM! 🌟

Introducing your 2026/27 Penrith Young Farmers Committee!

⭐ Chairman – Matthew Fabi
⭐ Vice Chairman – Tom Kirk
⭐ Secretary – Amelia Sisson
⭐ Assistant Secretary – Lucy Hannen
⭐ Treasurer – Charlotte Wilson
⭐ Social Secretary – Kitty Steele
⭐ Scrapbook Secretary – Emily Fisher
⭐ Club Leaders – Matt Bland, Tom Hodgson & Mark Steele
⭐ Club President – Richard Gardiner

We’re really looking forward to what lies ahead for Penrith Young Farmers. We’ve got a big year planned with plenty of exciting events, meetings and opportunities already in the pipeline, and we can’t wait to share them with you all!🤩

Make sure you’re following us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to keep up to date with everything that’s going on👀

Here’s to another fantastic year, we can’t wait to see both familiar and new faces! 💚🖤

02/08/2026

On Tuesday night saw Penrith YFC host their 90th Annual General Meeting, at Edenhall Hotel.

It was very well attended - Jackson Twentyman: chair gave a fantastic speech of his year on the committee discussing all events/ competitions Penrith YFC have achieved throughout the year.

Also giving a report, was club president Kathleen Twentyman who spoke about how proud she was of the club and mentioned many highlights of the year.

This then led onto treasurer Charlotte Wilson giving a detailed set off accounts explaining financially how successful the year it has been for us.

Awards and trophies were handed out to the following members:
Senior Member of the Year - Lucy Jones
Junior Members of the Year - Harry Teasdale
Most Effort on Field Day - Jackson Twentyman & Charlotte Wilson
Most Promising Member - Josh Shaw
Junior Stockjudger of the Year - Will Gardiner
Junior Reasons Trophy - Bethanie Fisher
Senior Stockjudger of the Year - Joseph Bowness
Senior Reasons Trophy - Victoria Twentyman
Most Dedicated member - Sam Bland
Beat Industrial Entry - Kit Morton
Member’s Member - Victoria Twentyman

We also handed out some novelty awards for the following:

Road trip DJ award: Emily Fisher
Night Shift Award( in the pub first & last) - Tom Kirk
Judges Headache Award: Jonny Powley
Ginger Spice Award: Amelia Sisson

The new committee was also elected…
Chairman - Matthew Fabi
Vice Chair - Tom Kirk
Secretary - Amelia Sisson
Assistant Secretary - Lucy Hannen
Treasurer - Charlotte Wilson
Social Sec - Kitty Steele
President - Richard Gardiner
Vice President- TBC
Club Leaders - Matt Bland, Tom Hodgson and Mark Steele

When the meeting closed, members enjoyed a buffet and a catch up over a few drinks. Thank you Edenhall for hosting us!

We thank the retiring committee for their hard work, and wish the incoming officers the best of luck in their year! 💚🖤

25/07/2026

💚TOTAL MILES💚

We are very proud to share we completed the 900 mile challenge, smashing our target and clocking up a grand total of 1,048.2 miles in 24 hours🙌🏻🎉

Thank you must go to our event sponsors, everyone who took part, club members & advisory and also our top supporters!

What a team💚🖤

24/07/2026

24/07/2026

LAST PUSH
20 minutes to go!!
….have we done it?🤞🏻

https://gofund.me/71c20c0d2

24/07/2026

📣90th CHALLENGE UPDATE📣

Clocking in 9.30am at a whopping 616.05 miles and counting!!
We are officially two thirds of the way to our target👏🏻an amazing achievement from all involved, keep up the good work!

https://gofund.me/71c20c0d2

Cumbria Young Farmers
National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs

24/07/2026

🌞Good morning🌞
24 HOUR CHALLENGE UPDATE

We have made it through the night!🙌🏻
An amazing 473.55 miles recorded at 6.30am
We are so close to half way🤩

Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far, if you’d like to donate towards our 2 charities the fundraising page is below.

https://gofund.me/71c20c0d2