\n She recruited her friend, Great Yarmouth-based\u00a0artist Emily Hartley Booth,\u00a0to paint the logo on both the tractor and her Land Rover.\n<\/p>\n
\n Spending countless hours driving in the countryside, Mrs Hill said this was a perfect way to\u00a0keep David’s memory alive while highlighting the support\u00a0now available to isolated rural communities – as well as spreading the message that\u00a0it is vitally important for farmers to talk.\n<\/p>\n
\n Norfolk farmer David Allen, who died in 2004, pictured with his spaniel Widget (Image: Supplied) “Because I\u2019m on the tractor a lot, and I\u2019m in the rural community all the time, I thought if someone saw these\u00a0signs they could just ring and speak to someone and it might just help,” she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is a simple message, but it might just strike someone who is struggling, or knows someone who is struggling for whatever reason.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey had done a new logo for YANA with a dog and a gentleman who looked just like a silhouette of David. I had got to know Emily and seen her work, and that is where it started.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The YANA (You Are Not Alone) mental health charity logo (Image: Denise Bradley) David Allen died in 2004 at the age of\u00a038 – four years before the formation of YANA in 2008.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mrs Hill said the mounting financial, climate\u00a0and policy pressures on farmers<\/a> made the charity’s support services and counselling\u00a0more important\u00a0than ever.\n<\/p>\n \n “It is needed now more than ever, absolutely,” she said. “It is a difficult time for farmers.\n<\/p>\n \n “Farmers love their job. It is a way of life,\u00a0but with all the pressures they are under, it takes away their passion for farming.\n<\/p>\n \n “I do feel that since YANA\u00a0started, people definitely talk a lot more about mental health. It is more acceptable to talk about it, whereas 20 years ago it wasn\u2019t. I think part of David\u2019s problem was that he felt he couldn\u2019t talk about it.\n<\/p>\n \n “He worked so hard and he was a practical man,\u00a0he could not understand what was happening in his head. We knew something was happening, and on the outside he was saying he was OK, but he obviously wasn\u2019t.\n<\/p>\n \n “He would say there was this fog –\u00a0you go down this hole and couldn’t get out of it. Our doctor was really good\u00a0but we\u00a0couldn’t do enough to help him, and I wanted someone else to come and help me to help him.\n<\/p>\n \n “He said he had had it all his life, but he kept pushing it away, that is why it consumed him. It is difficult to explain.\n<\/p>\n \n “Not being afraid to talk about it is the biggest thing. Now it is really good to see farmers\u00a0talking to each other.\n<\/p>\n \n “It does not take much. You just have to step into that conversation, don\u2019t be afraid to do it.”\n<\/p>\n \n \n Artist\u00a0Emily Hartley Booth said she wanted\u00a0to help support the mental health charity, having attempted to\u00a0take her own life when she was 29.\n<\/p>\n \n After witnessing the impact on her family, she sought help and treatment – and now art is one of the ways she manages her depression and anxiety, while\u00a0aiming to inspire hope in others.\n<\/p>\n \n \n “I thought it would be quite cool to paint on a tractor. With depression, I see\u00a0things losing their colour when I feel inside that cloud, so to\u00a0go from that to wanting to put the colour back in – it is an amazingly powerful message that you are not alone.”\n<\/p>\n \n YANA (You Are Not Alone)<\/a>\u00a0offers\u00a0confidential mental health support and counselling for\u00a0people in the farming and rural industries<\/a>. The charity\u00a0can be contacted via its helpline 0300 323 0400,\u00a0yanahelp.org<\/a>\u00a0or helpline@yanahelp.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebecca Hill, who\u00a0farms in Barnham Broom, between Norwich and Watton, came up with the idea to\u00a0honour her late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-290358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114913443984777199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rebecca Hill and her spaniel Jessica with the YANA mental health charity logo on her vintage Ford tractor at her farm in Barnham Broom (Image: Denise Bradley) Mrs Hill\u00a0re-married in 2014 and now runs the family’s 300-acre arable farm with her husband Sam.\n<\/p>\n
Rebecca Hill with her spaniel Jessica and artist Emily Hartley Booth, by the YANA mental health charity logo on a vintage Ford tractor at her farm in Barnham Broom (Image: Denise Bradley) “After seeing the effect on my family, I just really felt for Rebecca,” she said. “I wanted to get involved and share the word that there is hope after it really. There are things that have helped me and I am so grateful now.\n<\/p>\n