Rural Enterprises offers informal educational opportunities for young people to learn how to grow and produce their own food and to learn about other rural crafts and skills, such as beekeeping, jam making, etc. We will offer opportunities to young people through after school clubs and Young Farmers clubs and, to those during the school day who are in need of a more practical curriculum, through one day per week placements out of the school environment. Students will run a small food enterprise

Daventry has housing estates among the top 10% of area of multiple deprivation in the county. Aspirations of some of the young people are low and these tend to be disengaged from their education. there is a high rate of teenage pregnancy in the town. Young children are then brought up in families where the parent does not work and is not skilled at cooking healthy meals on a low budget. We offer opportunities for young people to grow, cook and produce their own food,also learning work skills

We have been able to take young people at risk of exclusion from school and kept them engaged in their education. We are then helping them to find employment or further training. We have helped them to develop the skills that employers need and which enable them to work as part of a team We have also had sessions with mums and children where they learn to grow fruit and vegetables and to cook inexpensive, healthy meals together.