08/09/2026
There are some things Lancashire does quietly.
We turn up.
We muck in.
We look after our own.
On Sunday 27th September, we’re asking our farming community, our villages, our local businesses and anyone who cares about rural Lancashire to do exactly that.
The Wyresdale Tractor Run is raising money for AgriMinds and our Stay Another Season work — a small local cause working directly with farmers and farming families around mental health, su***de awareness and su***de prevention.
And this matters because behind every tractor is a person.
A dad.
A brother.
A son.
A daughter.
A partner.
A neighbour.
Someone who gets up before daylight, works through weather, worry, debt, pressure and exhaustion, and still says, “I’m fine.”
Too often, they aren’t.
Too often, farming people carry far more than anyone ever sees.
And when someone is lost, the gap they leave behind reaches far beyond one person.
It is the empty chair at the kitchen table.
The family who would give anything for one more ordinary day.
The dog still waiting for footsteps in the yard.
The cattle, sheep or horses that will never see their farmer come through the gate again.
The farm that still has to keep moving, even when the person at the heart of it is gone.
That is why we do this work.
Not from a big office.
Not with huge budgets.
Not with layers of administration.
We are small.
We are local.
And we make every pound work hard.
Money raised helps us get into farming communities, deliver su***de-awareness sessions, provide practical resources, start difficult conversations and help people recognise when somebody beside them may be struggling.
It helps us reach the person who might never walk into a counselling room.
The person who might never ask for help.
The person who may just need someone to notice.
So when those tractors roll out of Whittingham on 27th September, this is about far more than tractors.
It is about the people sitting in them.
The families waving them off.
The farms they return home to.
The animals depending on them.
The empty chairs some families already know too well.
And the people we desperately want to keep here.
Come and watch.
Bring your family.
Wave from the roadside.
Share the event.
Donate what you can.
Tell your friends.
Bring your tractor and join us.
Because sometimes support looks like a conversation.
Sometimes it looks like a hand on a shoulder.
And sometimes it looks like a line of tractors winding through the Lancashire countryside, saying to every farmer watching:
You matter.
We see you.
And we want you to stay another season.
📍 Whittingham Social Club
📅 Sunday 27th September
🚜 Tractors arriving from 10am
🚜 Setting off at 11am
💛 £15 tractor entry
💛 Supporting AgriMinds – Stay Another Season
If you can support one local event this September, please make it this one.
Let’s fill the lanes.
Let’s make some noise.
And let’s show our farming community that Lancashire is standing with them.
