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Farmers’ Choir Launches Charity Vinyl To Fund Shout Support

The TV spotlight is being turned into direct help for rural mental health.

Overview

  • Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir, which earned Amanda Holden’s Golden Buzzer on Saturday, released a limited‑edition vinyl Thursday with 100% of profits pledged to mental health charity Shout.
  • The record, titled The Banned One, is priced at £7.50 and is available on the Hawkstone website ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week in May.
  • Shout’s leaders said the money will help train more volunteers so they can support people in farming who are finding it hard to cope.
  • The partnership also promotes a free, confidential text line for round‑the‑clock help by texting HAWKSTONE to 85258.
  • The 32‑member group, formed by Jeremy Clarkson in 2024 and now led by farmers Simon Gwilliam and Lizzy Dean, used their Britain’s Got Talent audition of Elbow’s One Day Like This to highlight the isolation many farm workers face.