Pick for Britain

The Government has launched a new ‘Pick for Britain’ website, encouraging UK workers to apply for fruit and vegetable picking jobs to help with the farming harvest.
  • Every year large numbers of workers from Romania and Bulgaria temporarily come to the UK to take part in the harvest – but this year only about a third of the normal number of workers are available, with travel for other workers severely limited.
     
  • That is why we are encouraging UK workers to join the ‘Pick for Britain’ campaign, so that jobseekers, furloughed workers, students and anyone else interested can lend a hand and help to bring the harvest home by picking fruit and vegetables across UK farms.
     
  • This will help to support our farmers, employ thousands more workers and ensure that everyone can eat and enjoy British fruit and vegetables this year – and we urge everyone interested to seize this opportunity to feed the UK.


You sometimes hear, especially from those who like to run down Britain and the British people, that we are all supposedly too workshy to want jobs like labouring on farms.

It's not true.

In fact there were so many thousands of people interested in signing up to "Pick for Britain" that they crashed the website.

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