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Neurodiversity in the farming community - Farmers Weekly's

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Buyer Address: Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, UKI32, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom

Contact Email: network.procurement@defra.gov.uk

Status
complete
Procedure
direct
Value
15000.0 GBP
Published
15 Aug 2025, 11:15
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
08 Apr 2025, 23:00
Contract End
30 Nov 2025, 23:59
Category
n/a
CPV
90700000 - Environmental services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
MA Agriculture Limited
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

Objectives We are seeking access to a high-quality survey on neurodiversity in the farming sector, a comms partnership with the most widely read weekly Farming Magazine and the opportunity to set out how Defra is working to improve the accessibility of its service to farmers. Farmers Weekly are running a campaign on neurodiversity and Defra funding will allow us to join that campaign and adapt it to better support Defra objectives. Only they are focussing on this issue and only they have access to the breadth of audience we will be able to access. Through the campaign Farmers Weekly have commissioned a robust statistical survey into neurodiversity in the farming sector. By joining as Partners, we are able to access the results of that and use it to inform our policy and service development. We have a longstanding need for this information and have not been able to implement a Defra led way to achieve this. Joining as partners is a ve

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

Contracts

Contract Title: Neurodiversity in the farming community - Farmers Weekly

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