family care trust Archives

18 Jun 2019

Npower staff power through jobs at the farm

Today we were joined by some fabulous teams from Npower who helped us get a lot of jobs done all over the farm in the very best wet British summertime weather! The teams helped us get lots of logs spilt ready for winter, weeded the vegetable beds and tackled a huge fencing project! The fencing at the back of the barn involved installing two gate posts, hanging gates, digging and concreting in all fence posts. This area will then provide us with a safe hardcore area to work with the sheep as well as fencing off the back of the…

07 Jun 2019

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Thank you to our volunteers

We are very lucky at the farm to receive wonderful support from lots of local and national companies who want to donate their time helping us develop projects further. Without their help and support projects such as the sensory garden would take twice as long for us to get underway plus the extra finances which would need to be invested to purchase materials. In honour of #nationalvolunteersweek we would like to take this opportunity again to thank everyone that has helped the farm in any way by donating their time or raising funds, we couldn’t do it without you!

03 Jun 2019

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Eversfield School deliver a huge present

Today was a very special day at the farm as we took delivery of a very special present from Eversfield School. Students from the school have been fundraising for the last year to raise over £15,000 towards the new tractor. The tractor will be a huge upgrade from our existing tractor which is now looking forward to a happy retirement! We cannot thank all the staff and students at Eversfield for their hard work and generosity, we will be having a grand opening for the tractor at our open day in September.

31 May 2019

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Summer Colour

The farm is really springing into life and there are wonderful colours all over the gardens! The hanging baskets created by the horticulture team look wonderful and are still available to purchase outside the front of Berrys cafe. All the hanging baskets at the farm have been created with lots of care by the project workers in the horticulture team. Every couple of months the farm runs a craft club where project workers ca attend to help make things for us to sell on our sales days. These 100% recycled bird nest boxes have been really popular on our sales…

21 Feb 2019

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Enjoying the warmer weather

The dry warmer weather has been fantastic at the farm and all of the animals and plants have been enjoying the recent sunshine. We have all taken the opportunity of the dry weather to do some repairs. The beach garden has now got a new walk way and a new gate is going into the horse field. The farm has had an exciting new addition over winter which we cant wait to share with you once its completed! We are looking forward to 2019 and all of the new projects we can get stuck into - including a new sensory…

09 Jun 2017

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Goat Goals

Our good friends from Loyds joined us from all over the country again on Wednesday to help us with another mammoth challenge! This time there was a deadline to the task as the team had some new arrivals to get the enclosure ready for, three baby goats! Thirty five willing employees from Lloyds joined us to help build the new enclosure which required a lot of muscle power! Over thirty posts had to be bashed into the ground before the group could even begin with the wire fencing on top and the gravel boards at the bottom. There were also…

15 Apr 2016

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And its April…

Check out our weaved willow structure in the recycled garden! The horticulture team made it in the winter and it has now sprung into life. All of the gardens at the farm are starting to show the early signs of growth and will soon be full of colour! Our lambs are coming on really well and get bigger each day! They are also getting much braver and love the camera! Thank you to all that donated for our mud run! We raised over £4000 thanks to your generosity and we are now looking for a tractor to buy for the…

31 Mar 2016

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Mega March

March has been a wonderful time at the farm where we have welcomed 11 new lambs! The ewes are (as always) brilliant mothers, which is good news for us as Amy and Lilly had triplets! We will be keeping a close eye on these moms and lambs in particular to make sure that everyone is getting enough food and milk! To allow the lambs to have constant access to extra feed but not other greedy ewes the wood work team built a 'lamb creep' where the lambs can go in and nibble! They rely on their mothers milk for the…

16 Nov 2015

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November at the farm

We missed an October blog! Woops! As always another busy month at the farm has come and gone in the blink of an eye! The wood work groups have been busy making also sorts of spooky props ready for the Family Care Trust Halloween ball which was held on 31st October. I think you will all agree that they made a fabulous job of setting the stage for the night! The barn has looked very haunted with all these grave stones! Not to miss out on some Halloween fun we also decided to have a Halloween party at the farm!…