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11 Apr 2024

Disability Smart Finalist 2024

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…

19 May 2022

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Spring Sales Day 28th May 2022

23 Apr 2020

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Helping project workers and NHS staff during Covid-19

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…

14 Mar 2020

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Everest in 12 hours

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…

29 Feb 2020

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Trivia night thank you!

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!

30 Sep 2019

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Open day success!

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

26 Sep 2019

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JLR bash though the farms to do list!

Over the last three weeks we have been very lucky to have been joined by several teams from Jaguar Landrover who have tackled a wide variety of jobs all over the farm. Post bashing in the horses field was top of the list and the teams ensured that over 100 posts were bashed into the ground by hand all around the field ready for the field to be used throughout the winter. We have since been able to get the posts all wired up ready for the horses! The groups not only waved their magic wand around the field they…

16 Aug 2019

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Nicola Bird Art supporting the farm

We are very lucky at the farm to have been selected by Nicola Bird Art as one of her chosen charities. Not only is Nicola making a donation from her commission based work towards the farm but she has also provided us with some fabulous artwork of our farm animals which are proudly displayed in the cafe. To see more of Nicolas fantastic work please visit her website here www.nicolabirdart.com Cheese the farm cat Dawson Piglet

17 Jul 2019

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Postcode Community Trust and Sport England grants secure sport activities at the farm

The farm has received £22,900 to go towards funding sport activities for the project workers. These grants have ensured that the project workers attending the farm have access to a wide range of activities including tennis, climbing and cricket. Having access to sport helps promote healthy lifestyles as well as the positive effect sport can have on mental health and above all having fun! We cannot thank the Postcode Community Trust and Sport England for their generous donations! See the full article below... https://www.charitytoday.co.uk/winning-grants-for-solihull-charitys-sports-activities/

12 Jul 2019

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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…