Depden Care Farm
Framework provider of day, evening and weekend activities for people with learning disabilities and autism
Depden Care Farm is run by the Millennium Farm Trust (MFT)
Attendees, our Farm Helpers, have the opportunity to learn skills in animal husbandry, horticulture and agriculture with as much or as little support as they need. The work builds confidence and develops social and practical skills. The outdoor physical activity improves both mental and physical fitness. We help people be the best they can be and where appropriate help people move from farm helper, to volunteer and from volunteer into employment.
We offer placements for:
- People with learning difficulties and disabilities
- People with mental health problems
- People with acquired brain injury
A registered charity, established in 1996
Who to contact
- Name
- Tim Freathy
- Position
- Director
- Telephone
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01284 851013
07816 828016
- tim@depden.com
- Website
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Depden Care Farm
- Social Media
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Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter - Address
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Rookery Farm
Bury Road
Depden
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk - Postcode
- IP29 4BU
Where to go
- Address
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Rookery Farm
Depden
Bury St. Edmunds
Suffolk - Postcode
- IP29 4BU
- View IP29 4BU on a map
- Area served
- Haverhill, Mid Suffolk, Sudbury, Babergh, Newmarket, Lakenheath, West Suffolk, Mildenhall, All Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds
- Parking available
- Yes
- Parking details
- We have ample parking in our car park.
- Restrictions to access
- We are largely wheelchair accessible, but inevitably, particularly at certain times of year, some parts of the farm are not fully accessible.
- Notes
Rookery Farm is a 6 acre smallholding on a south facing gentle slope. We grow a range of crops in our market gardens and polytunnel which we sell at our road side stall. We also keep sheep, pigs and poultry for meat and eggs. The goats, donkeys, horses and Arthur the dog are kept for fun. And they are lot of fun.
Rookery Farm and its animals are accessible for wheelchair users.
Days & Times
- Depden Care Farm is open Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4pm
- Time of day
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Morning
Afternoon
Other details
- Referral required?
- Yes
- Referral and availability notes
Potential referrals should call or email to enquire about availability. If places are available then potential farm helpers are invited (with their support worker) for a visit. If they like what they see we offer a free trial day following which they will be invited to join us.
- Age Groups
- Adults
- Accessibility
- Disabled Parking, Wheelchair Access, Adapted Toilet
- Accreditation website
- https://www.aqa.org.uk/
- Accreditation details
We offer AQA Unit Awards
- Service users involved in planning
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Yes
Our 5 year plan was Co-produced. We consult service users regularly about what they'd like to see in their programme and our daily programme is built around their needs.
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