Downham Cottage Care Farm
Framework provider of day, evening and weekend activities for people with learning disabilities and autism
Downham Farm offers people the opportunity to work on a traditional smallholding. The farm offers a wide range of activities to a variety of people. Activities include small and farm animal care, horticulture, basic woodworking, estate maintenance, arts and crafts.
Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices providing health, social or educational care services for one or a range of groups of people through supervised and structured programmes of farming and related activity. In other words a care farm essentially combines care of the land (including the environment and the animals) with the care of people.
Work on a care farm can help put someone’s life back on track by providing meaningful activity and a practical daily structure. The activities undertaken are real and based on the daily, weekly and seasonal jobs around the farm. The benefits, of being outdoors in the fresh air and working with animals, improved mental and physical health; are now becoming more widely recognised by health and education professionals.
This provider was Quality Assured in 2015 and is now an approved provider by Suffolk County Council's Quality Assurance and Provider Development Team - find out more here.
Who to contact
- Telephone
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01728 685712
- Mobile
- 07585377125
- downhamcottage@yahoo.co.uk
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Where to go
- Address
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Downham Cottage Care Farm
School Road
Monk Soham
Woodbridge
Suffolk - Postcode
- IP13 7EN
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- Area served
- Mid Suffolk, Stowmarket
- Parking available
- Yes
- Transport
- There is a limited bus service to the village from some towns and villages in Suffolk
- Restrictions to access
- The site is under development and is not currently suitable for wheelchair users during wet weather. It is the intention to make the farm fully accessible to all in the not too distant future.
Other details
- Age Groups
- 16-25 years, Children (5-11), Adults, Young people
- Accreditation website
- http://www.face-online.org.uk
- Accreditation details
Countryside Education and Visits Accreditation Scheme (CEVAS)
Support for people with disabilities
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