The Norfolk farming charity the Clan Trust was ahead of its time in 2008 when it launched the You Are Not Alone project, now known as YANA.
The YANA format – to provide mental health support for the agriculture and rural community.
YANA became a charity in its own right in 2020. Now we are much-admired by many national bodies, including The Royal Countryside Fund, Public Health England and The Worshipful Company of Farmers.
We do this by:
In 2022, YANA is establishing itself as a key East Anglian charity.
With the generous support of the Alan Boswell Group Charitable Trust, we are now able to work across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire.
YANA works to a set of values in our decision-making processes, affecting how we behave and what we expect from each other. They also show what you can expect from us.
YANA makes a positive difference to agricultural and rural communities in East Anglia.
We have evidence of the difference we make to peoples’ lives and their mental health through our monitoring and evaluation processes.
After undertaking a Social Value review of the training we provide, we learnt that for every £1 invested, £3.85 worth of social value is created for society. For further details about this please email admin@yanahelp.org.
“The service I received was great.
The flexibility and easy access to the charity
worked well.”
FEEDBACK FROM A COUNSELLING CLIENT
“Very informative and hopefully useful going forward. Lots of practical big and small tips to improve world and home conversations and hopefully help people. Good combination of presentation and practical activities.”
FEEDBACK FROM A MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDER
In 2022 YANA had a 41% increase in the requests for help made to our helpline and 10% more people received our funded counselling, compared to the previous year.
People that received counselling noticed an improvement in three key areas of life; mental health, relationships and work.
Whilst 95% felt better able to manage their problems.
This means those people are able to experience a better quality of life through improved relationships, are able to think more clearly and work more safely.
Read more about the work of YANA IN 2022.
The six Trustees include Mrs Ginnie Edgecombe, Mr Mike Horton, Mr Henry Kilvert (Chair), Mr Henry Lamb, Mr Grant Pilcher and Mr Tom Streeter.
YANA Chair Henry Kilvert, shared his vision for our work when he took on the role in 2020.
We have two Patrons:
Our annual reports and finances submitted to the Charities Commission each year.
As a charity, YANA abides by a set of policies. We signpost our volunteers, funders and job applicants to read them.
If you have any questions about YANA’s policies, please get in touch
