Information for Non-SAWS Participants

If you are a national from one of the following countries, the information below will apply to you:

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

If you are a national from Bulgaria or Romania please refer to the Information for SAWS section of the website.

You must:

• be over 18 years of age at the time of starting work on the scheme

Unlike SAWS applicants, you may apply for placements longer than 6 months.
The work you are applying for is low skilled and includes the following:

• Planting and gathering crops
• On-farm processing and packing of crops (salad vegetables, soft fruit, flowers)
• Handling livestock (lambing and on-farm poultry processing).
• Picking and packing fruit and vegetables (beans, strawberries, sweetcorn, courgettes)
• Weeding, husbandry and pruning.
• Erecting polytunels, irrigation systems and fencing.

There are also opportunities to participate in more skilled work if you have the relevant experience and qualifications. This includes tractor driving, forklift driving, supervision and farm shop work. We also work with many specialist farms so if you are interested in a more specific area of agriculture please ask your agent about this. These include bee keeping, poultry farming and dairy.
You will be paid at least the national minimum wage for the work.