This was our first Erasmus+ project, which we wanted to use to further the internationalisation of our organisation. The project provided us the opportunity to share our knowledge and experience in relation to our work on societal issues (in particular, assistance to the most disadvantaged groups) through the use of farm-based, ecological and other activities. Our work is all about providing support, opportunity and access to employment for disadvantaged young people. So far this has been done at the local and County level. Our interest in Erasmus+ arose from a contact from a Care Farm in Piispala, Finland, which was looking for a UK partner and made contact with us. This inspired us to develop our international activities and partnerships by running this training course. Becoming a host organisation in EVS (and subsequently European Soildarity Corps) also hugely increased our motivation. Although Care Farming methodology exists in other European countries as well as around the UK, it is still not well known. So we decided to organise a training course whereby we could share our experience in order to create wider interest in the concept and bring the benefits to more communities and especially young people, across Europe. A further aim was to develop new European partnerships and follow-up projects. However, as we were planning the project, our then EVS volunteers pointed out that there is so much else we do, and that we should expand the scope of the training to include other areas of our work, which we believe are examples of best practice. We particularly wanted to attract youth workers who live and work in rural areas, because they typically face similar challenges to ourselves and some of them also fall into the “fewer opportunities” category. We designed this training course to inspire them with new ideas and holistic approaches appropriate to their client groups (disadvantaged youth) and to provide models which they could easily adapt to their local context to cooperate with local farmers and introduce care farming activities (not necessarily fully fledged care farms, though that could happen later). We decided to increase the number of UK participants on the course, because this was a golden opportunity for some of our local volunteers (who are also often severely disadvantaged) to gain new skills and broaden their horizons. In the event, we had more UK participants than originally intended because of the obstacles imposed on international participation as a result of Covid and, more seriously, Brexit. See below for further details of these changes. The course supported the priorities of Erasmus+ because of its themes (access for disadvantaged people, health & wellbeing, inclusion & equity, youth unemployment, migrants issues and youth work) and because the direct and indirect target groups (i.e. youth workers who participate, and the young people they work with) are directly affected by or interested in these themes, so the training would have a real and immediate impact on young people’s wellbeing, employability and access to opportunity. The project was also intended to motivate our team and enhance our reputation for diversity and internationalism, and offer intercultural learning activities for our clients, who are mostly people with few or no opportunities to travel or experience other cultures.