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Willow Farm. A Care Farm with Heart

Willow Farm. A Care Farm with Heart

Willow Farm is a new care farm in Yalding near Maidstone, Kent. We offer sen schools and sen units within mainstream schools the opportunity to visit the farm to give the children a real farm experience. Class visits will enable the children to interact with our friendly animals, do some pond dipping, explore the orchards and ancient woodland shaw and to undertake real farm work in a fun and educational way.

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Facilities

  • Car parking
  • Coach parking
  • Covered space
  • Disabled toilets
  • Hand washing facilities

Picnic area and classroom with fridge to store lunches

Pricing

School Class visits. £150. Inc VAT Set rate for up to 10 children, larger groups may be considered for an additional fee. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Individual referrals £60. Inc VAT per child per day session (A maximum of 8 children for each session)

What we can offer

  • Forest Schools
  • Growing crops and vegetables
  • Indoor crafts
  • Pre-visit information available
  • Provision of materials/equipment/livestock
  • Risk assessment
  • Small animal care (e.g. grooming, feeding, handling etc.)
  • Tailored programmes
  • Working with livestock (e.g. feeding, milking, egg collecting, daily maintenance, grooming (where appropriate))
  • Woodworking

Pond dipping, working in the poly tunnel, woodland mini beast hunts and habitat building.

Care Farms / Green Care Services

Related services:

  • Alternative provision
  • Care farming or green care as part of Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
Care Farm

Are you a teacher and know a child with SEND? They could benefit from accessing a Care Farm.

Care Farms provide supervised, structured educational programmes of farming related activities for young people to support those struggling in school, help those with disability, behavioural challenges and improve mental health and wellbeing.

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Accreditations

Other Accreditations

Working towards the Care Farming Code of Practice

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