Places are now available for the next Yorkshire Farmers Club industry visit, to Drax Power Station near Selby on Wednesday 8th January 2025.
Strictly offered to those aged 50 and over who are working in agriculture or are semi-retired or retired from the agricultural industry, the visit is part of a rolling programme of activities being offered by The Yorkshire Farmers Club.
The Yorkshire Farmers Club is an initiative of the Yorkshire Rural Support Network at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, and specifically seeks to provide opportunities for more senior members of the farming community to get-together in the spirit of friendship.
What to expect on our visit
Drax Power Station provides the most renewable power of any single location in the UK, enough electricity to power the equivalent of four million homes.
It is home to the largest decarbonisation project in Europe and the site of innovation for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, a negative emissions technology to fight the climate crisis.
During your visit, you will hear about how Drax generates electricity before the tour takes us to the station’s biomass domes which store up to 80,000 tonnes of biomass, 374ft high cooling towers where water the station uses is cooled and released as clean vapour, and the 1,400ft long turbine hall at the heart of Drax where huge turbines turn the generators to produce electricity.
Find out more about Drax Power Station here.
Format of our visit
The choice of two slots are available to join us at Drax Power Station on Wednesday 8th January.
FREE places are available on our morning visit between 10am and 12noon, and places are available for our separate afternoon visit, between 1pm and 3pm. Please click on the button below to reserve your place.
IMPORTANT – Please read before booking your place
Due to the site’s configuration, you must be able to navigate approximately 90 stairs (four floors) to take part in this visit.
Do not book a place if you are pregnant, have a severe peanut allergy or a pacemaker. It may be possible to attend, but you should email isabels@yas.co.uk to make the necessary Health & Safety checks prior to confirming your spot on a tour.
The postcode for Satnav purposes is YO8 8PH.
Bookings close at 12noon on Friday 3rd January.
What is the Yorkshire Farmers Club?
An initiative of the Yorkshire Rural Support Network at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, the Yorkshire Farmers Club has been set up to give more senior members of the county’s working farming community the chance to meet up, off-farm and in likeminded company for industry visits.
The Yorkshire Farmers Club is essentially a social club for people who still have active farming minds, who are still involved in a farm business, perhaps have more time to get off farm and welcome the chance to be immersed in current industry intrigue.
The Club has the potential to help tackle social isolation and loneliness in the community by reconnecting farming people and creating opportunities for likeminded people to perhaps forge new friendships.
To read about some of the Club’s recent visits to Heck Food, click here, to Metcalfe Farms, click here and to British Sugar’s Newark factory, click here.
