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Care Farm for Special Needs
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Care Farm for Special Needs
We wish to purchase land to set up a care farm setting, building educational centres and purchasing animals to enable special needs young people to engage with animals in an outdoor farm setting.
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We wish to purchase land to set up a care farm setting, enabling us to build educational buildings and buildings for animals. This project would be initially for SEN young people to interact and work with farm animals within an outdoor farm environment and through the vehicle of farming practices and animal mangement. Our aim is to establish gardens and landscapes with the help of the young people, raising plants/trees from seeds and planting them within the farm setting. Also for them to enhance relationships with the leaders but also their peers. We wish to re-engage people with learning and enhance their wellbeing when they are isolated or have long term illness. We wish to cater for young people whose Statement/Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP) identifies severe and profound learning difficulties including autism. In the long term we wish for these young people to help run the farm and open to the public whilst being supported with an employment programme.
What we'll deliver:
- Planting trees and plants raised from seedlings
- Building an educational centre
- Purchasing Animals
Why it's a great idea:
We feel that this project will help the lives, not only of those with SEN, but also the wider community, giving them the opportunity to grow together in this setting and be able to give the SEN young people the help that we all should have whilst involving them in a worthwhile project for the community. We believe that with time, patience and understanding these young people can intergrate themselves into the community and find voluntary jobs and/oremployment in areas such as animal care, horticulture and retail environments. We aim to involve these young people in all of these areas and for them to run this farm for the benefit of all.
Steps to get it done:
- To open the Care Farm Setting to SEN Young People
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How will the money be spent?Total £49,799
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Total £49,799
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We are currently running our Community Interest Company Mobile Educational Farm from a rented field and we now wish to enhance the experience by running our own Care Farm setting by purchasing land to enable us to build a specific educational hub whereby all young people, but specifically those with Special Educaional Needs, can visit us on a daily basis as part of their Statement/Educational Health Care Plan. Thus helping us maintain and run the farm whilst engaging them with learning and enhancing their well-being when they are isolated or have long term illness. We believe those with disabilities often have hugely untapped potential and an ability to make a real contribution to the wider community. This often becomes most apparent when working with animals and when they leave formal education.
We are hoping in the long term to offer a Supported Employment Programme within the farm whereby some of the young people will stay at work with us after their initial visits.
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