Care farming through the holidays

Deben Community Farm

Found in Collections

Suffolk Holiday Activity and Food Programme (HAF)

Funded by

Suffolk County Council

Provision

Universal provision with SEND support

Ages

5 - 16

Location

Deben Community Farm, Woodbridge

Next date

19th August, 11:00 – 15:00

Tickets

£0 - £55

A summary

At Deben Community Farm we work with the student, referrer, and family/carers to provide a stable, consistent setting where every student can feel emotionally and physically safe and valued, and where they can progress at their own pace. Our staffing team work to provide a pathway to progression for the students. We listen to, nurture, and guide them to where they want to be. This could be transitioning into school or college. We will challenge them and stretch their comfort bubble slowly and appropriately. The structure we provide is framed by the staff as role models, who encourage, guide, and support the student to meet their needs on a daily basis. Students can build on their interests, creativity and natural talents, and learn life skills such as how to problem solve, plan ahead and express themselves. Our learning-by-doing approach and focus on the process, not the outcome, means we can build self-esteem by celebrating every success relevant to the student.

Tickets

HAF approved session

£0

5 - 16Suffolk County Council

£0

Paid non-HAF child

£55

5 - 16Suffolk County Council

£55

HAF approved session

£0

5 - 16Suffolk County Council

£0

Paid non-HAF child

£55

5 - 16Suffolk County Council

£55

A summary

We have secured further funding for our holiday HAF sessions, these will initially be offered specifically to children and young people with SEND and have not attended a care farm session with us yet. We have 2 sessions running from 9:30am to 1:30pm and 2 sessions running from 11am to 3pm (for our under 8’s please note that they are only able to stay for 2 hours unaccompanied. You are welcome to stay for the second half of the session and also share lunch with us if you wish for your child to stay for the whole 4 hours. Please let me know if you wish to stay and would like a complementary lunch) There will be lots of animal care activities and tasks to complete on the day and will also include a hot snack lunch, healthy snacks, fresh fruit and vegetables and a selection of cold drinks

Application process

Please follow this link https://eequ.org/book/care-farming-through-the-holidays-with-deben-community-farm-8481

SEND accessibility checklist

2:1 care

Qualified to administer medication

PECS trained

Secure environment

Assist with personal care and toileting

Makaton trained

Epilepsy trained

Accessible toilet

1:1 care

Sensory or quiet spaces

Hoist and changing bench

Please note:

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About your mentor

Deben Community Farm

Our nurturing farm where everyone is valued

Deben Community Farm

We are a not for profit small community farm in Saddlemakers Lane. We have a variety of animals including a highland cow, pigmy goats, rare breed Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, alpacas, Southdown sheep, hens, ponies and donkeys. Heather, David and I are the directors and we run the farm completely on a volunteer basis. We employ 10 staff to support the Co-Worker and Home Education groups which we run mid week to support young people who are not in full time main stream education. We offer the local Pre-school free use of the farm 3 days a week so that the children aged 3 to 5 years can access free forest explorer sessions. We are open to the public free of charge on a Sunday afternoon and also support the local children and young people with volunteering opportunities to enable them to complete their Duke of Edinburgh awards and various Guild and Scout badges. We run a free gardening group for older people. We also support Pitstop Holiday Club by giving them free access to the farm to run a holiday club during the school holidays. This was inspected in 2019 and was awarded an outstanding Ofsted.

Location

Deben Community Farm, Saddlemakers Lane Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1RW

What's provided

Drinks

Snacks

Meals

Equipment

Safety

Enhanced DBS

Basic DBS

Risk Assessment

Public Liability Insurance

Safeguarding Training

First Aid Training

First Aid Kit

Smoke Detector

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Cancellation policy

Please let me know as soon as possible if you are not able to attend so that we can offer the tickets to others.

My experience consists of a leisure activity, on a specific date(s), and therefore the 14-day ‘cooling off period’ under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 does not apply.