The charity Stride Forward has been mentoring Watchet's Nathan Hewitt as he continues his farming career despite a life-changing injury.

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00:00When you become disabled there is suddenly a lot more life admin that you just have to deal with.

00:09It's just a huge amount of change to every aspect of your life.

00:14And I just ended up doing nothing and not looking after myself because of it.

00:20Most people are ordinary people who have extraordinary circumstances

00:24which changes everything about how their life falls out.

00:29In terms of their body image, their self-confidence, their ability to go to work, their ability to engage in hobbies.

00:37And the idea of Stride Forward is to fill that gap by providing mentoring programmes

00:43to support people in re-engaging in things that they loved or finding new direction.

00:53We got on from like the minute we met, it was like instant.

00:58On FaceTime, Holly was like, I think you'll like her.

01:02I think, I think you guys will get on.

01:06Seeing Evie and her small wins, that's what I'm never going to forget.

01:11I've just found it a really rewarding experience.

01:17Once you get Sean talking about coding, he's just, you know, free-flowing.

01:22I've learned so much, so much from him and the challenges that he's going through.

01:27It's quite humbling really, actually.

01:29Farmers really need both their legs, but Nathan has done amazingly to carry on being a farmer.

01:37And if I can help in any way with a bit of paperwork, with a bit of signposting, with a bit of support

01:42and some more chocolate brownies, then I think it's going to be a good year ahead of us.

01:47Have I been useful?

01:49Very useful.

01:52I think the good thing about the relationship is, it's been an opportunity to talk things through, hasn't it?

01:57Oh, definitely.

01:58Break things down and then work out how you'd like to go forward.

02:01It's like you become a close friend and it's like, yay! You can never get enough of them.

02:09If only more people knew of it, Holly could help a lot more people out there.

02:18I just asked for someone who had a great fringe and a love of fringes.

02:22So I got that, that was fine.

02:31I'm going to have a good afternoon.

02:32Get back and get a good afternoon.

02:33I just asked for a little bit of time.

02:34I love the wind!

02:35I'm just reading the wind!

02:37I hope you can do it.

02:38You can do it.

02:39I can do it now, because you can do it for me.

02:42I love it.

02:44But here's exactly what I call you, guys.

02:47I guess you've got a good idea.

02:48You've got a good idea.

02:50I'm….

02:51You've got to build great ideas.

02:52You've got to build a lot of flowers.

02:56You've got to build a lot of flowers on your society where we're looking at the same.

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