Federation Of City Farms and Community Gardens
Agriculture - Bristol, ENG, UK
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Social Farms & Gardens is the result of a merger between twoexisting charities:• The Federation of City Farms – a UK-wide charity, established in 1980, with astrong track record in partnership and project working. It provided supportservices and advocacy for community managed farms and gardens which havebecome increasingly popular in the last few decades - today there are more than2,500 of these local groups and an extensive community growing sector.• Care Farming UK: was set up to promote and support Care Farming – the use offarming activities for therapeutic purposes. Care farms provide health, social oreducational care services for individuals from one or a range of vulnerable groups.It provided a central voice and supportive services for care farmers, to inspiredecision makers.Care farms, city farms, community gardens and other outdoor spaces can offerindividuals with a defined need and their communities the opportunity to connect withthe land, leading to enormous social, therapeutic and educational benefits.We will also be concentrating on advocacy at policy-maker level, providing a voice for thethousands of gardeners, growers and farmers whose passion, vision and innovationimproves the lives of millions of people.Our membership currently stands at more than 700 local groups and we employmore than 30 staff across the UK. The majority are part-time. In addition to our HQ inBristol, we have offices in Cardiff, Newtown and Bangor (covering Wales), Edinburgh(Scotland), London (London & South East England), Belfast (Northern Ireland) and otherstaff in Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Peterborough. Our development teamis supported by a pool of 50 volunteers and freelance fieldworkers, who provide localsupport to members as required, normally for a few days each per year.
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