We are thrilled to announce that Newlands Bishop Farm has been nominated for the prestigious Employers Award at this year’s National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards. This recognition underscores the farm’s commitment to providing valuable work-based learning opportunities for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Situated in Solihull, the farm, a part of the Family Care Trust, has been a beacon of support, offering training in areas such as horticulture, animal care, and catering. Adding to the excitement, the Family Care Trust’s Training Manager has been nominated for the Managers Award as part of their work delivering Oliver…
The Family Care Trust is ‘Highly Commended’ at Disability Smart Awards 2024 The Family Care Trust was highly commended at the Disability Smart Award 2024 for their work to improve the lives of disabled people. The Solihull based charity was highly commended in the Disability Smart Technology category at an awards ceremony in London on 30 April, hosted by Business Disability Forum and held in partnership with Bloomberg. The Disability Smart Technology Award recognises organisations and individuals that have improved the life opportunities and experiences of disabled people, in the workplace, as consumers or in wider society through technology. This…
Embracing Innovation: Newlands Bishop Farm's Virtual Project Earns Disability Smart Nomination Newlands Bishop Farm has been announced as a finalist for the prestigious Disability Smart Awards 2024. This recognition comes in light of the farm's use of technology to blend an inclusive environment and promote skill development. Started by a passionate team of staff and project workers, the farm has ventured into the digital world by creating a 'virtual farm' within the popular game Minecraft. This innovative project serves more than one purpose. Primarily, it is designed to build essential IT skills among project workers. In today’s digital age, proficiency…
In 2011 Berrys Cafe was built at Newlands Bishop Farm to provide a kitchen, eating and training facilities. Since then the farm has continued to grow and now needs a larger cafe to provide hot meals for all those who attend the farm. Newlands Bishop Farm provides work based learning to adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. By accessing a wide variety of areas individuals are able to develop their confidence, self esteem and skills which can in the future transfer into a work placement or employment. The new cafe will provide seating for up to 120 project…
Following on from the success of last years scarecrow festival we decided to get creative again this year and to have some fun. We think you will agree that the standard has been set high again with some fantastic designs displayed! Here are a few down below - The winner of the festival was the horticulture teams Dr Who and Dalek. The scarecrows have now made their way over to Fountains Care Home to be entered into their competition. Fingers crossed for another winner!
Like the rest of the country the Family Care Trust has had to make several changes to its services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Newlands Bishop Farm, Community Gardening Services and Dementia Blanning Day Centre have all had to temporarily close their doors to clients during this time. The staff at the farm have continued high levels of care by going out into the community to take project workers essential supplies, pick up prescriptions, do any shopping required and to check in to offer them any support they might require. We have been able to offer so many essential supplies…
As part of the 25th Anniversary celebrations for the Family Care Trust we set ourselves the challenge of trying to climb Mount Everest in a day on the climbing wall at Flash Climbing Centre in Solihull. This requires us to climb 29,035 feet in 12 hours! It was a huge challenge but as always the project workers, staff and supporters of Newlands Bishop Farm rose to the challenge! We even had a special visit from the mayor of Solihull who came down to cheer us all on. Thank you to everyone who got involved and sponsored us, we will be…
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our first Trivia & Chilli Night. This event was part of the Family Care Trusts 25th Anniversary celebrations and it was so wonderful to see the event so well supported.The evening raised over £1200 towards our £250,000 target in our 25th Anniversary year. Thank you to our quiz master Steve and everyone who help make the evening enjoyable, plus those who donated raffle prizes. We appreciate all your support to help make these events such a hit!
Thank you to everyone that came to our open day today! It was a bit soggy but it was so fantastic to see everyone enjoying the scarecrows, opening the sensory garden with the team from Cadent (who helped get this project started!) cutting the ribbon on the new tractor with Eversfield School whose fundraising enabled us to purchase the tractor, and of course being able to show the mayor of Solihull all of our new projects. The scarecrow winners -1st place - bee keeper2nd place - horse and riders3rd place - pirate in the beach garden
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