Graduates
Elevating your voice We've got a group of enthusiastic new NFU graduates ready to help farmers everywhere, so let’s learn a little more about them...
Isabella (Issy) Roberts
Anna Wright Age: 22
Age: 23 From: StratfordUpon-Avon Studied: International Relations and American Studies at Swansea University, with a year abroad at the University of Texas at Austin. What have you been doing since you joined the NFU? “I think that I have joined the external affairs especially during team based in Westminster. I will the pandemic be helping to plan and run events the emphasis on in Parliament, running the supporting your @NFUPolitical twitter and doing a local area became lot of parliamentary monitoring. I’m very apparent” currently managing responses to a cheese tasting event we are holding in Parliament, which is very exciting because I love cheese! If you could swap a role with someone at the NFU for a week, who would it be and why? I would swap roles with Sam Ette or anyone in the press team. I think that how the media works as a whole is so interesting. They work so closely with the rest of the comms department as they promote all of the NFU’s messages in the press. I would love to learn how to write a press release! Why do you back British farming? I think that especially during the pandemic the emphasis on supporting your local area became very apparent. The ways in which your local farmers and stores could supply the things we are looking further afield to find is amazing. I think it is important that we invest in ourselves, whether that be as communities, counties or as a nation. What is your dream job? My dream job is to work in public affairs for a charity and help to shape legislation to make changes in the world and people’s lives. I would love to find a job that combined my love of politics with giving back to society.
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From: Easingwold, North Yorkshire Studied: Geography at the University of Oxford What have you been doing since you joined the NFU? I’ve been working in the net zero team. This has involved helping to run our first ever Countryside COP, being in charge of our monthly net zero pledge prize draw and, excitingly, I helped with planning for my team and other NFU members to go to COP26. What is your dream job? I think my dream job would be to take on my grandmother’s hill farm up in Cumbria, but I think I’ll need to learn a lot from working at the NFU to figure out whether I’m cut out to be a farmer!
“I back British farming because I know that farmers are the ones behind the countryside that I’ve grown up in awe of”
If you could swap a role with someone at the NFU, who would it be and why? If I could swap roles with anyone in the NFU for a week it would probably be one of the external affairs managers so that I could see what it was like working with MPs and maybe even get a look around Parliament.
Best thing you’ve learned since working at the NFU? I’ve learned a lot since I started working at the NFU, but one of the things that’s interested me the most has been the benefits of rotational grazing and herbal leys. Not only can they increase soil organic matter and fix nitrogen, but they can also reduce the incidences of worms in livestock! Why do you back British farming? I back British farming because I know that farmers are the ones behind the countryside that I’ve grown up in awe of. I also know that buying British food is so much better for the environment than imported goods, and that it supports the people that make up the rural fabric of Britain and keep us fed.
January 2022
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