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Farmer Network and YFC have been told to vacate their offices at the closure-hit Newton Rigg Campus, near Penrith
Homeless: Young Farmers Club and the Farmer Network have to vacate offices by the summer TWO Cumbrian organisations are now faced with being made homeless when the Newton Rigg campus closes this summer. Both the Farmer Network and Cumbria Federation of Young Farmers Club have been told by owners York-based Askham Bryan they must vacate offices they have on the Penrith campus no later than July31. Farmer Network managing director Adam Day said: “Very sadly, the demise of Newton Rigg College seems inevitable. Penrith is an ideal central base for the Farmer Network, and we would like to ensure that we have good access for those members who need to visit the office for meetings and to benefit from other types of support that we offer.”Cumbria YFC County chairman Neil Curr commented that: “As a community, Cumbria YFC is absolutely devastat
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OUTSIDE Newton Rigg College, Cumbria YFC chief officer Joanne Mills and Farmer Network managing director Adam Day BUSINESSES and charities that shared the site of Newton Rigg College in Cumbria are on the hunt for new homes after it was confirmed that the college will close this July. The fate of Newton Rigg, at Penrith, has been in the balance since York-based owners Askham Bryan College announced closure plans last year. With news that the campus and an associated farm were being put on the market from Tuesday, May 4, the other organisations located on the site are now faced with the prospect of becoming homeless.
Calls for Government to step in over future of Newton Rigg
The Government must intervene to save Newton Rigg says the consortium behind plans to keep land-based education in Cumbria.
Newton Rigg Ltd, which wants to open a new college on the existing campus near Penrith, says operator Askham Bryan College is ‘robbing Cumbrian Peter to pay Yorkshire Paul’.
In a statement released this afternoon, it said there was outcry over the college’s plans to sell Newton Rigg’s land and farms but it was still fighting for Government intervention.
A spokesman said: “We must not let the wool be pulled over our eyes.