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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…

10 Nov 2020

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Scarecrow Festival 2020

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!

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

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…

01 Apr 2019

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Birmingham airport staff come spend the day at the farm

On Friday 29th March we were joined by a team from Birmingham airport to help us do various jobs around the farm including to help us start developing the new sensory garden. Before the team arrived The base for the new shed has now been dug out and the new path way which will weave around the garden has been mapped out. The pathway will ensure that the garden is accessible to those in wheelchairs so that they can also enjoy the garden. The sensory garden is starting to take shape The team also stained the two new offices, as…

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…

21 Nov 2018

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Getting ready for sales day 7th December 11-3, everyone is welcome!

November is a time for finishing off projects and getting ready for colder weather approaching us in winter. Some of the vegetable beds have been covered and insulated, this is to stop any new seeds from settling into the soil and to keep the soil a little warmer so that any seeds already in the bed wont be killed in colder temperatures. The horticulture team are in full swing with making wreaths ready for our sales day on 7th December 11-3. Be sure to pop down and check the farm out, there will be lots on offer including Christmas trees,…

11 Oct 2018

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Cadent came and conquered

Over the past couple of weeks we have been joined by some fantastic employees from Cadent who have totally transformed the far end of the farm! Cadent who look after gas pipes all of the UK bought all their skills, man power and machines to achieve something truly amazing! Some of you may have seen the big lump of soil we had positioned at the end of the farm with the long-term plan of turning into a sensory garden feeling very much in the future. The Cadent team came in and set to work by beginning to strim the whole…