11 Apr 2024
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Disability Smart Finalist 2024

Embracing Innovation: Newlands Bishop Farm's Virtual Project Earns Disability Smart Nomination Newlands Bishop Farm has been announced as a finalist for the prestigious Disability Smart Awards 2024. This recognition comes in light of the farm's use of technology to blend an inclusive environment and promote skill development. Started by a passionate team of staff and project workers, the farm has ventured into the digital world by creating a 'virtual farm' within the popular game Minecraft. This innovative project serves more than one purpose. Primarily, it is designed to build essential IT skills among project workers. In today’s digital age, proficiency…
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16 Mar 2023
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NBF New Cafe Build 2023

NBF New Cafe Build 2023

In 2011 Berrys Cafe was built at Newlands Bishop Farm to provide a kitchen, eating and training facilities. Since then the farm has continued to grow and now needs a larger cafe to provide hot meals for all those who attend the farm. Newlands Bishop Farm provides work based learning to adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. By accessing a wide variety of areas individuals are able to develop their confidence, self esteem and skills which can in the future transfer into a work placement or employment. The new cafe will provide seating for up to 120 project…
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10 Nov 2020
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Scarecrow Festival 2020

Scarecrow Festival 2020

Following on from the success of last years scarecrow festival we decided to get creative again this year and to have some fun. We think you will agree that the standard has been set high again with some fantastic designs displayed! Here are a few down below - The winner of the festival was the horticulture teams Dr Who and Dalek. The scarecrows have now made their way over to Fountains Care Home to be entered into their competition. Fingers crossed for another winner!
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23 Apr 2020
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Helping project workers and NHS staff during Covid-19

Helping project workers and NHS staff during Covid-19

Like the rest of the country the Family Care Trust has had to make several changes to its services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Newlands Bishop Farm, Community Gardening Services and Dementia Blanning Day Centre have all had to temporarily close their doors to clients during this time. The staff at the farm have continued high levels of care by going out into the community to take project workers essential supplies, pick up prescriptions, do any shopping required and to check in to offer them any support they might require. We have been able to offer so many essential supplies…
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14 Mar 2020
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Everest in 12 hours

Everest in 12 hours

As part of the 25th Anniversary celebrations for the Family Care Trust we set ourselves the challenge of trying to climb Mount Everest in a day on the climbing wall at Flash Climbing Centre in Solihull. This requires us to climb 29,035 feet in 12 hours! It was a huge challenge but as always the project workers, staff and supporters of Newlands Bishop Farm rose to the challenge! We even had a special visit from the mayor of Solihull who came down to cheer us all on. Thank you to everyone who got involved and sponsored us, we will be…
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29 Feb 2020
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Trivia night thank you!

Trivia night thank you!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our first Trivia & Chilli Night. This event was part of the Family Care Trusts 25th Anniversary celebrations and it was so wonderful to see the event so well supported.The evening raised over £1200 towards our £250,000 target in our 25th Anniversary year. Thank you to our quiz master Steve and everyone who help make the evening enjoyable, plus those who donated raffle prizes. We appreciate all your support to help make these events such a hit!
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30 Sep 2019
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Open day success!

Open day success!

Thank you to everyone that came to our open day today! It was a bit soggy but it was so fantastic to see everyone enjoying the scarecrows, opening the sensory garden with the team from Cadent (who helped get this project started!) cutting the ribbon on the new tractor with Eversfield School whose fundraising enabled us to purchase the tractor, and of course being able to show the mayor of Solihull all of our new projects. The scarecrow winners -1st place - bee keeper2nd place - horse and riders3rd place - pirate in the beach garden
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26 Sep 2019
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JLR bash though the farms to do list!

JLR bash though the farms to do list!

Over the last three weeks we have been very lucky to have been joined by several teams from Jaguar Landrover who have tackled a wide variety of jobs all over the farm. Post bashing in the horses field was top of the list and the teams ensured that over 100 posts were bashed into the ground by hand all around the field ready for the field to be used throughout the winter. We have since been able to get the posts all wired up ready for the horses! The groups not only waved their magic wand around the field they…
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10 Sep 2019
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Tickets now available for Family Care Trusts comedy night

Tickets now available for Family Care Trusts comedy night

Family Care Trust is hosting its first ever comedy night as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations! 26th October at Knowle village hall at 7pm. Tickets are £12.50 and are available via the link below, come and join us for a laugh while raising money for the trust 😊 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comedy-night-tickets-69581148087
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