25th Anniversary celebrations for Family Care Trust

25th Anniversary celebrations for Family Care Trust

Newlands Bishop Farm is part of Solihull Charity Family Care Trust which offers support to a wide variety of individuals across Solihull. The trust not only offers work based learning at Newlands Bishop Farm, it offers the following the following services throughout the borough Community support Blanning Dementia Day Centre Community Gardening Services This year the trust will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary with 25 events taking place to raise money over the next year. Keep an eye out for these events taking place across the trust on our Facebook page To find out more about the Family Care Trust…
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Action Filled August

Action Filled August

We always start most of our blogs telling you how busy the past month has been but August has been spectacularly busy! The gardening teams have all been out keeping on top of local residents grass and hedges. The landscaping team over at CGS in Chelmsley wood have also been doing some pretty impressive garden makeovers as you can see below... N Power have come back to the farm again and helped to finish off the beach garden, some pruning around the chicken area and some fencing around the boundary of the farm. Check out the mural they painted inside…
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Community Gardening Service

Community Gardening Service

This blog is dedicated to our Community Gardening Services which are based in Chelmsley Wood and at the farm. They are working flat-out at this time of year and so we wanted to demonstrate what a great job they are doing all over Solihull... Here is a before and after shot of a landscaping and fencing job carried out by one of our CGS teams. What a difference! And after ... Here is another fencing job completed by the CGS team who tackle a wide range of landscaping jobs.. and finally here is a hedge job done by the CGS…
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New Arrivals

New Arrivals

Welcome to our March blog, and what a lot of lamb pictures we have to share with you! A week earlier than expected our two of our lovely ewes decided to give birth to their lambs! The first ewe successfully had one lamb and the second ewe had three lambs! Because they had them so close together we were able to adopt one of the triplets onto the ewe who just had one, meaning that both ewes had two lambs each which was healthier for the ewes and the lambs. The adoption went really well and both came on leaps…
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A late February blog!

In our next blog we will hopefully be showing you some pictures of our new baby lambs! But as we write this they are still a week away from arriving and their moms are keeping us busy! We have set up lamb cam so that we are able to check on them through the night without disturbing them unless required. The budgies have been enjoying the sunshine and yesterday enjoyed our leftover salad from Berrys Cafe! Over the last couple of weeks 4 employees from Landrover have joined us to give up some of their time to do some volunteering…
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