YORKSHIRE’S annual Farmhouse Big Breakfast charity this year raised £3,350.

A total of 213 breakfasts, using locally-produced food, were cooked and served up over six sittings at the three day event at St George’s Court B&B, Old Home Farm, High Grantley, Ripon.

Hosted by owners Will and Lindsey Hitchen, it was organised and staged by the Harrogate and Nidderdale Group of Farm Stay UK, the country’s largest network of farm-based accommodation providers.

This year’s proceeds are being split between the ARCAddington Fund’s Strategic Rural Housing Scheme and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Currently celebrating its tenth anniversary, the ARCAddington Fund supports hard-hit farming families and communities. In North Yorkshire, the charity has distributed 1,400 grants worth more than £680,000, with most handed out during the foot-and-mouth disease outbeak of 2001-02, and more awarded following the floods.

Ian Bell, fund director, said: “We have also purchased seven properties in the area for families needing to retire or exit their farms, who have had no other options available to them.

“The financial input we receive from events such as Yorkshire Big Breakfast is invaluable.”