Crafty Cabin 2.0

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Funded on
13 Feb 2025

We managed to get a log cabin last year from donations and grants to run our Challenge Askefield craft session but it so popular we have outgrown it already. We need another log cabin!

£13,019 Raised of £12,979

36 Backers

100%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 13 February 2025 | Delivered on 25 April 2025

£13,019

RAISED

36

BACKERS

307

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£5,000

From South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership

£20

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

150

people have visited this project!

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South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership donated £3,000

More about our impact

Volunteering, jobs & education

We have increased our number of volunteers since the cabin went in and have increased the number of people attending Challenge Askefield, but more interestingly, we have been entertaining the pupils from the local school once a week and the cabin is used regularly, especially the use of the whiteboard. This is a very valuable tool that we would not have had was it nor for this project.

Activity, health and leisure

This space has been invaluable to our project and has increased our potential to offer new things to our clients ie healthchecks, a meeting space, a venue for external courses. Not only has the space benefitted our existing clients, this will also bring income into the project, which will enable us to be more sustainable in the future.

http://www.askefield.co.uk

The Askefield Project is a social farm designed to support people not conditions, with the aim of developing self-confidence, self-esteem, and raising aspirations. We are a small community social enterprise based on our beautiful thirteen-and-a-half-acre smallholding in rural Lincolnshire which includes our barn with commercial kitchen, log cabin, toilet block, office, and reception, 72ft polytunnel, nature pond, crew building, orchard, sensory garden, and animal paddocks. We have sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, a goose called Wally, a donkey called Boris, a pony called Rory, guinea pigs and Coco the cat.

We’ve been around since 2017, and we have built a well-respected and much-loved community venture, as well as a pretty cool venue which attracts people from all around the area. We provide a range of services, run projects for people and our local community, hold several events, and undertake some commercial activity.

We currently run Puddlers, a toddler group, a Toolshed project for all adults, a Care Farm Day for clients with diagnosed mental health conditions on personal budgets, Challenge Askefield which is a craft coffee morning and a Family Farm Club for all ages. These are all run weekly. In addition to this, we run open days and events, such as The Kerry Hill, our pop-up community pub, our Christmas event and Living Nativity, Comedy Nights and Family Fun Days during the summer.

We have adapted our provision to support the community, remained flexible to local needs and increased our reach and the number of clients accessing our facilities and services. We have made significant site developments, including adding flushing toilets, an all-weather log cabin and a professional catering kitchen, which has provided us with further avenues to support future sustainability. We now have a site with extensive facilities, the right staff, a host of resources and experience, a strong management team and a strategic plan to drive The Askefield Project upwards.

We want to support people to grow, and to create a thriving local community asset that enriches people and supports the place we call home. We are brave and bold in our approach and have big ambitions for our organisation.

Project Owner: The Askefield Project Ltd The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.