Businesses, individuals and charities are being headhunted to support a project to restore and conserve some of the thousands of dilapidated field barns in the Yorkshire Dales.

And a special exhibition is being staged next month to drum up support for the Fieldbarn eco-pod project from the private and voluntary sectors, which allows for the development of workspace within a barn.

The move follows a pilot scheme last year at a derelict barn on the Bolton Abbey estate near Skipton.

Stuart Parsons, the park’s member champion for cultural heritage, said it was vital to find ways of conserving more than 2,000 run-down Dales barns.