Academy Award winning actress Dame Dame Judi Dench has been announced as patron of the The Countryside Restoration Trust's silver jubilee.

The Victoria & Abdul star commented 'It was such an honour to be asked to be involved in this very special year... I have been privileged to visit several of the Trust’s farms and the work being done is tremendous. In this Jubilee Year we remember not only those who set the Trust in motion but we look to the future as farming, the countryside and Britain's wildlife needs the pioneering work of the CRT more than ever before'.