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Supported Farming and Green Care Day Service

The Farm is set within a safe and beautiful green space in St Werburghs surrounded by allotments and the Narroways Nature Reserve. This is a perfect place for our sessions with learning disabled and neurodivergent adults. With a small-holding and the community garden, we offer unique placements and therapeutic activities in gardening and animal care for adults requiring support.

A programme of meaningful nature-based activities is delivered by expert staff and we aim to create a sense of achievement, independence, and self-confidence. By taking place within a social setting, these activities also promote feelings of inclusion and belonging.

Interested in Getting Involved?

Please contact the Supported Farming and Green Care team at garden@swcityfarm.co.uk or by calling 01179442149

Nestled amongst the trees at the bottom of the Farm, the Log Cabin, our team’s base, provides a safe, accessible and well equipped environment in which participants are supported to a high staff to trainee ratio (3 to 1).

This is a place where people can learn new skills, make new friends, grow in confidence and independence, and above all have fun. We have small groups of no more than 6 and sessions are either for a day or half day. We run sessions 5 days a week, 50 weeks of the year.

We include therapeutic assisted animal activities in our sessions, so everyone gets to spend time with the farm animals.

Want to give it a go?

We Offer a FREE taster session

Other activities included within the training and placements include:

Small group size to staff ratio. Our groups are no more than 6 and there are always 2 members of staff working with them.

Taking a person-centred approach, we work with everyone on goals to encourage independence and confidence, and check in regularly to make sure all is going well.

Time for opportunities to socialise and make new friends. We have our lunch together, as well as meet with a cup of tea the beginning and end of the day.

Time at every session to engage with the farm animals – Therapeutic assisted animal activities are proven to improve mood and general wellbeing, as well as having many other benefits.

Nature based Craft activities, and cooking using our harvests, are done in our well-equipped cabin.

We assign everyone an individual key worker so they can feel totally supported during their time here.

We have access to a large community garden on Mina Road where we grow vegetables to sell in our farm shop, and to turn into delicious jam and chutney.

A large greenhouse and a polytunnel are available for us to work in to propagate vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers.

Access to work within our farm with its pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, and ducks!

We have a certification scheme where we offer training in gardening and animal care, and recognise achievement through our Personal Progress certificates.

All the dates, prices and links

Placement Details

Mon – Fri (full day)

10:00AM – 3:00PM

From £90 or by council funding

Mon – Fri (half day)

10:00AM – 1:00PM
12:30 PM – 3:00PM

From £45 or by council funding

We encourage participants to stay with us or join us for lunch if they come to a half-day session so that they can get to know everyone in the group.

The service runs Monday to Friday all year round, except for bank holidays and two weeks over Christmas and New Year.

Council Funded Placements

Placements can be arranged through referrals from adult social care at Bristol City Council or South Gloucestershire Council. To find out more about care needs assessment or to request a review:

If you need help navigating referrals, WECILOpens in a new window runs a helpline for disabled people in Bristol to get in touch with any disability-related question.

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