12-year-old organises his second fundraising Shropshire tractor run

Shropshire Star

Me meet a 12 year old young farmer who's tractor run starting from Kinnerley, will be nearly twice the size in mumbers this year and taking in way more villages, and to top it off ,it raises money for a good cause too. We catch up with him to find out more.

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00:00So we're here at Argoid House Farm in Kinnelly, that's right isn't it? Just

00:04outside Oswestry Shreesbury really, just between the two. And we're with Zac, hello

00:11sir, and Zac's mom Laura, hello. So you've got a bit of a special event coming up

00:17haven't you? Is it a former track to run? What is it that's coming up and when is it

00:21coming up, Zac? Go on. It's our track to run and it's the 12th of July.

00:29And a tractor run, so what is a tractor run then? What happens? I'm going to the

00:35tractors and go on the road and raise some money for a charity. Which charity are you raising money for?

00:41Farming Community Network. Farming Community Network, great stuff. How many tractors are

00:50going to be involved then do we think? The last two we had about 40 or 50. 40 or 50? Wow okay, that takes

00:58up somewhere. That's a fair bit of organising. And this is your baby isn't it? You came up with

01:03this idea didn't you? So when was that then? The first thing, last year like we wanted to do the

01:12other ones that are around here and we thought we tried to do the other one. Yeah yeah. We wanted to raise some money

01:18before he left Kinnerley School and raise some money for them. Ah so you raised some money for your

01:22old school? Oh nice one buddy. And how much did you raise? 650. Yeah yeah great stuff. Cool. What did they do with that do you know?

01:30No I don't know. Spent it wisely we hope. So at the end of the tractor run there's a bit of a

01:37fate going on isn't there in Kinnerley? Yeah. And what's going to be there? We've got a bit of food stalls and

01:43so you kind of when you came up with the idea and raising money for your school did you think it

01:48was going to be a wonderful event or were you thinking you know what I'd quite like this to be

01:51every year? Every year. Yeah yeah. So how many tractors did you have last year? That was 40 to 50 was it?

02:00About 28 last year. So yeah so it's going bigger so it's a bit yeah not far off Dublin then that's

02:05the plan. And what sort of route you're doing then? So do you start here at Kinnerley? Start at the Royal

02:11Helm in Edgley and then go for all the villages and end up in Kinnerley. Oh yeah so what sort of

02:18distance you're doing then overall? 30 miles. 30 miles and how long will that take in a tractor then?

02:24roughly what are you thinking? About an hour. Just to an hour. Yeah yeah with a little stop off

02:28refreshments I hope along the way. Hopefully. So how old are you Zach? 12. So can you drive a tractor?

02:38You know what you're doing don't you on a farm? Yeah. Yeah yeah. So mom can you drive a tractor?

02:44No. Because it's kind of it's a family farm isn't it? Yeah. So um have you have you been up there have

02:49you been a paid pillion like while he's been driving? Yeah but he's been taking me because it's quite nice

02:55sometimes when the sunset's going as well. Ah lovely. It's quite nice to spend some time with him as well. Yeah

02:59yeah and it's in his blood isn't it? He wants this is what he wants to do farming. It's you know.

03:04He wants to be a farmer 100%. Yeah yeah great stuff. So we're raising money for a good cause 40 to 50

03:11tractors involved and if people want to find out a bit more in terms of like what which village is

03:16and what route. Have you got like a little page set up have you? Yeah we've got a page on Facebook

03:21Kindly Coiner's Tractor Run. Cool. We've put the map on there so it'll go through Nescliff it'll go

03:26through not many Facebooks but we're trying to try and get involved in other villages. Yeah that's nice

03:33that's nice. So I guess Zach you'd welcome anyone to check that map out and um come and kind of give

03:39you a wave and show you the support and perhaps chuck a few coins in any buckets that are knocking about.

03:43Well great stuff Zach and we wish you all the best with your future career down here on the farm. Cheers buddy.

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