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Spitalfields City Farm needs your support to source a van, suitable for animal transportation, to ensure our community can benefit from our mobile farm service.
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Spitalfields Farm needs your help to get a van that will provide many years of hard-working service, from emergency veterinary transport to making sure that our community can benefit from the farm outreach services. Our goal is to purchase a van in the New Year, and made suitable for transporting animals before Easter 2023, a busy season for our resident donkeys supporting community events. This van will meet current emission standards and help take the farm forward with the ethos of striving to improve the environment around us. Reliable transport will enable use to attend schools, children centres, residents associations, hospices, and community events. Ensuring we can continue our wider community engagement providing inclusive, educational, and social activities for children, adults, and the elderly. Taking our much loved animal residents out into the community delivers positive and meaningful activities for individual beneficiaries and groups.
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Why it's a great idea:
Mobile farms will introduce participants to new experiences that can help to build confidence, physical skills and promote their development, wellbeing or recovery such as hands on animal visits; interactive curriculum linked activities; training in animal care and welfare Educational visits stimulate curiosity and participants can then begin to apply their new knowledge and understanding in the wider world. There is also a wealth of opportunity for language development and literacy skills. Recreational and therapeutic visits provide contact with animals for people who may not normally have the opportunity. Interaction with animals and nature has been proven to promote stimulation, self-expression and enhance wellbeing. Our outreach projects have a wide ranch of beneficiaries from early years to older people. In 2019 we engaged with over 20,000 individuals across 40 events. The delivery of our outreach projects also benefit and are supported by our farm volunteers.
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Service users have long reported on the many physical and emotional benefits of their experience with the animal we take out: "We enjoy the farm visiting each year. Its a great hands on experience for the children." "The farm staff were great to work with and the animals were a huge part of a great community event." "The farm staff that came with the animals were amazing, the children loved every minute and the learning was immediate. The awe and wonder on the faces of the children was priceless!" "Thank you for bringing us joy!" “It has been a joy to work with the farm each year the children looks forward to it and gain so much from the experience. SEN children in particular benefit from the experience and love to be with the animals" "The Mobile Farm created a successful and authentic experience for all those in attendance. The children and parents loved it."
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Location Tower Hamlets
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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How will the money be spent?Total £31,252
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VolunteerSpitalfields City Farm is a free-entry, urban oasis located a stone’s throw from the City of London that offers a unique and creative natural environment for all to enjoy. The farm has been an integral part of the community for over 40 years and continues to grow, attracting new visitors and service users year upon year.
Spitalfields City Farm operates seven days per week (open to the public six days per week). A variety of activities are regularly offered between the three main areas: the gardens, the farmyard and education. We provide an urban oasis of the rural environment, connect the local community with nature, provide meaningful career, training & volunteering opportunities, contribute to the local economy, and?provide education about, and solutions to, the impacts of climate change and environmental disconnection. The Farm is seen as important to the cultural prosperity of the area - not only on an economic level - but also on a social level - as we bring different communities together and provide similarly diverse economic and cultural benefits.
Spitalfields City Farm runs a tried and tested Education Programme with a coalition of primary and secondary schools within the Tower Hamlets borough. This programme is in the 7th year of delivery. We see over 800 children visit the farm for the first time each year, many who may not have seen common farm animals before. This experience is usually the foundation to repeat visits and many children and young adults who participate in other programmes provided by Spitalfields City Farm first came as part of a school trip. Our Farm Club, Forest School establishment and delivery, Mobile Farms e.g.story-telling performances such as The Little Red Hen and Nativity plays.
Project Owner: Spitalfields City Farm The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
