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Celebrating 50 years of growing, learning and thriving on our farms!

This week marks a very special milestone for Farms for City Children – 50 years since our very first school arrived at Nethercott House. What started as our founders Clare and Michael Morpurgo’s powerful vision to give children the chance...
Celebrating 50 years of growing, learning and thriving on our farms!
  • 15/11/2024

    Autumn Newsletter 2024

    We are excited to share the Autumn 2024 edition of our newsletter. Find out what’s been happening at our three farms, and our reflections on a busy year during which we welcomed returning and new schools and community groups.

  • 01/12/2023

    2022-23 Highlight Report

    In 2022-2023 we made 3,288 children and young people farmers for a week and welcomed 620 adult beneficiaries. Find out more about how their lives were transformed through our immersive residential farm experience in our latest highlight report.

  • 05/10/2022

    Joules’ support reaches £50,000 milestone

    Here at Farms for City Children we’ve been a proud partner of much-loved British lifestyle brand Joules since 2016. The company has supported us in all sorts of ways over the last six years, raising money to support our work,…

  • 28/09/2022

    The Ernest Cook Trust Press Release September 2022

    Scheme giving children the chance to connect with nature expands into Wales “Unforgettable”, “brilliant” and “changed my view of nature” are just some of the comments from children who have taken part in a pioneering initiative to help get them…

  • 03/03/2022

    Brewin Dolphin Southwest offices raise over £12,000 for children’s charity

    Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin’s Southwest offices (Exeter, Plymouth and Truro) have raised over £12,000 for Farms for City Children, during a two-year partnership with the charity, which began in 2020. The money raised will be able to subsidise around 39…

  • 17/12/2021

    2021 Service Dealer Awards raises £3,500 for Farms for City Children

    On 25th November over a hundred representatives from the garden and farm machinery, turfcare, and outdoor power equipment industries came together for the annual Service Dealer Conference and Awards in Oxfordshire. Every year the organisers, Service Dealer, choose a charity…

  • 10/12/2021

    Lower Treginnis officially opens Farm Shop

    Last month we celebrated the official opening of a farm shop at our Pembrokeshire farm, Lower Treginnis. A disused barn has been converted into a stunning shop, where visiting children can learn about what happens to the farms produce after…

  • 25/08/2021

    BMO Bank of Montreal raises £13,500 in a month for Farms for City Children!

    Bank of Montreal’s BMO Capital Markets team in London has raised £13,500 to subsidise a residential trip for their local primary school at Farms for City Children’s Gloucestershire farm this autumn.  Farms for City Children offers residential breaks for primary…

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