Growing Care Farming - our work
Growing Care Farming (GCF), is part of the Government Programme for Children & Nature (supported by Defra, is funded by the Department for Education and managed by Natural England) and is being delivered by Social Farms & Gardens, in partnership with Thrive.
Growing Care Farming aims to transform the scale of the care farming sector across England, creating more opportunities for children and adults with a defined need to benefit from specialist health, care and educational services provided on care farms. The launch of the Growing Care Farming project by Natural England took place on 13 May 2019 - more information here. GCF will expand and transform care farming services across England through a programme of three elements:
What is care farming?
More information on care farming (including case studies, films etc) is available on the page: 'What is care farming'
and on the scale of the care faming sector here
What's on
***If you missed our first online conference on Thursday 25th March, you can see the full recording here ****
***Or check out our new short conference film below***
For a full list of Growing Care Farming events click here
How to keep in touch
- If you would like to be adding to our mailing list to receive regular updates about our Growing Care Faming (GCF) work please complete this form or if you would like to read our GCF Updates online, click here.
- If you would like to contact us or have any further queries about the project or care farming, please email: carefarming@farmgarden.org.uk
If you have a media enquiry, please email: marketing@farmgarden.org.uk
Connect with Growing Care Farming on Twitter @GrowCareFarming
Watch our latest videos on YouTube.
Training, Support and Resources
New training opportunities and care farming support and resources
Regional Networking
About the regional networking element of Growing Care Farming
Quality Assurance
Quality service provision with the Care farming Code of Practice
