Dame Dame Judi Dench has been announced as an official patron for The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT), following her involvement in the charity's silver jubilee celebrations last year.

The Academy Award winning actress said 'The CRT is the pioneering charity in wildlife friendly farming and the biggest tribute to its success is the fact that so many other organisations have followed in its footsteps... We look to the future as farming, the countryside and Britain's wildlife needs the pioneering work of the CRT more than ever before'.