As you know, the end of 2020 will see the winding up of the delivery side of Growing Care Farming, although the discounted training will continue until March 2022. Covid has hit Government budgets hard and, unfortunately, has led to a significantly shortened project life for us. Rest assured though, that Social Farms & Gardens are committed to continuing support for our sector via the Code of Practice and ongoing training and webinars, so make sure you continue to keep an eye on social media and the website for upcoming events and news. From next month we will be working with the University of Essex and moving into our evaluation phase, which will give us an interesting period of reflection. If you wish to be involved and would be happy to speak to researchers about any impacts you feel we might have had on the care farming sector over the last couple of years, we would love to hear from you. |