CEVAS - care farmer training

CEVAS care farmer training

If you are thinking of setting up a care farm, have only recently started offering care farming services or have new members of staff that you'd like to bring up to speed, then a CEVAS training course is a great place for you to start. CEVAS is suitable for a wide range of people, including care farmers, care farm staff, volunteers, advisors and carers.

CEVAS stands for Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme which is a nationally recognised accreditation (OCN) offered by the Access To Farms (ATF) partnership (of which Social farms & Gardens is a member) which brings together agricultural organisations that support farmers to provide opportunities for people to experience farming 

The scheme offers training for individuals who are working – or plan to work – with a one or a range of individuals with additional or defined needs.

There are two available routes: a Therapeutic Route for care farming (structured, regular service as part of an individual's health or social care or specialist educational programme) that covers a wide range of visitors with largely therapeutic aims and outcomes and an Educational Route that predominantly covers school visits with educational aims and outcomes.

For details of course dates, locations and how to book, please click here